Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Web Services

Web service description

MultiDatatypes( ) copies a set of value-format pairs packaged as a complex type to an output parameter that contains the values formatted using the corresponding formats, also packaged as a complex type.

Table 13–1 shows some of the formats that SOAP requires to format the XML Schema data types handled by this operation.

Table 13–1: DatatypeFormats sample application—example formats 

Data type	Example formats
boolean	true, false, 1, 0
datetime	9999-99-99THH:MM:SS.SSS+HH:MM
duration	P99Y99M99DT99H99M99S
gDay	---DD
gMonth	--MM--
gMonthDay	--MM-DD
gYear	YYYY
gYearMonth	YYYY-MM

The complex type input parameter passed to MultiDatatypes( ) contains the simple type parameters shown in Table 13–2.

Table 13–2: DatatypeFormats sample application—input parameters 

Parameter simple type	Parameter name
boolean	paramIn1
batetime	paramIn2
duration	paramIn3
gDay	paramIn4
gMonth	paramIn5
gMonthDay	paramIn6
gYear	paramIn7
gYearMonth	paramIn8

The complex type output parameter passed to MultiDatatypes( ) contains the simple type parameters shown in Table 13–3.

Table 13–3: DatatypeFormats sample application—output parameters 

Parameter simple type	Parameter name
boolean	paramIn1
batetime	paramIn2
duration	paramIn3
gDay	paramIn4
gMonth	paramIn5
gMonthDay	paramIn6
gYear	paramIn7
gYearMonth	paramIn8