Agree that the WSDl should support NULL values, which is a value. It could be that the xsd is wrong. If it contains information that the element is required, BMC Remedy always sends the element, regardsless if its empty or not.
-- J 2014-09-24 12:20 GMT+02:00 Misi Mladoniczky <m...@rrr.se>: > Hi, > > I have seen this a few times. I think it is the standard Microsoft > implementation that does not handle NULL values, for example for numbers. > > Could it be possible to send a 0 (zero) instead of NULL in these cases? If > you > can do that it is a single filter per field, and possibly the need to > create > display-only placeholders for the value. > > You could also create different filters for each possible combination of > NULL/non-null values, but this could become too much if you have more than > 2-3 > fields. > > Or you might persuade your WebService supplier to support NULL values... > > Best Regards - Misi, RRR AB, http://www.rrr.se (ARSList MVP 2011) > > Ask the Remedy Licensing Experts (Best R.O.I. Award at WWRUG10/11/12/13): > * RRR|License - Not enough Remedy licenses? Save money by optimizing. > * RRR|Log - Performance issues or elusive bugs? Analyze your Remedy logs. > Find these products, and many free tools and utilities, at http://rrr.se. > > > We're trying to consume an external, non-Remedy web service, using a set > field > > from web service filter action. Watching arpluginsvr.log I can see the > > transaction successfully reach the vendor system, but it's erroring out > due to > > failing validation on the other side. The XML being passed by the plugin > > server is the entire WSDL - the vendor indicates that we need to pass > only > > those elements that contain an entry - no null values. > > > > The WSDL location points to the vendor's published WSDL, not a locally > saved > > file. Even if we were able to use modified WSDL entries stored locally - > we're > > not as basic authentication is needed - the values being passed are > obviously > > going to vary from transaction to transaction. What I'm hoping to learn, > is if > > there is any way to vary the values being passed by the plugin server so > as to > > eliminate nulls, while using a single WSDL. > > > > TIA > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > > "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
