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QUESTION:
I developed a web service object and one of my functions returns a struct. The struct contains members of multiple data types and one of them is of the DataFlex number type. When I create a cClientWebService class based on the WSDL of my webservice I see the struct uses Decimals instead of Numbers. Why?
Source Struct:
Struct tCust
String sName
Number nProfit
End_Struct
Destination Struct:
Struct tWSCust
String sName
Decimal nProfit
End_Struct
ANSWER:
The conversion is expected. This is due to the mapping of Visual DataFlex data types onto the XML Schema types. The VDF Number and Decimal types are both mapped to the same XML Schema type xs:decimal. So the VDF Number type is mapped to xs:decimal. The range of xs:decimal exceeds the range of Number, so therefore any occurrence of xs:decimal must be mapped back to the VDF Decimal type.
But because Decimal has a higher range than Number, all Number values should fit within Decimal.
Number = 14.8
Decimal = 16.16
Contributed By:
Sonny Falk
Company: Data Access Worldwide
Web Site: http://www.dataaccess.com
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