Data type casting

OpenEdge supports a set of alternative ABL data types (in addition to a suggested data type) to represent the value for an XML Schema data type in ABL. These alternative data types essentially force the Web service invocation to cast the value between the specified native ABL representation and the corresponding XML Schema data type. The result of this casting might not preserve as much accuracy as the suggested mapping.

Table 61. Supported casts between data types
XML Schema data type	ABL data type
anyURI	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
base64Binary	CHARACTER LONGCHAR MEMPTRRAW
boolean	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
byte	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
date	CHARACTER DATE DATETIME DATETIME-TZ
dateTime	CHARACTER DATE DATETIME DATETIME-TZ
decimal	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
double	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
duration	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
ENTITIES	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
ENTITY	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
float	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
gDay	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
gMonth	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
gMonthDay	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
gYear	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
gYearMonth	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
hexBinary	CHARACTER LONGCHAR MEMPTRRAW
ID	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
IDREF	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
IDREFS	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
int	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
integer	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
Language	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
long	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
Name	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
NCName	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
negativeInteger	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LONGCHAR
NMTOKEN	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
NMTOKENS	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
nonNegativeInteger	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
nonPositiveInteger	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
normalizedString	CHARACTER DATE DATETIME DATETIME-TZ DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
NOTATION	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
positiveInteger	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LONGCHAR
qName	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
short	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
string	CHARACTER DATE DATETIME DATETIME-TZ DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
time	CHARACTER INT64 INTEGER LONGCHAR
token	CHARACTER LONGCHAR
unsignedByte	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
unsignedInt	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
unsignedLong	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR
unsignedShort	CHARACTER DECIMAL INT64 INTEGER LOGICAL LONGCHAR