I suspect in this situation you will have to use a custom serializer to force the mapping of the second source to the appropriate scale.
Anne On 5/2/05, Fabio Insaccanebbia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > is there someone who can explain me if Axis manages in an explicit way > if the SOAP message you sent is in lexical representation or in a > canonical representation? > > From what I've read, the canonical representation should guarantee a > better interoperability between different SOAP implementations. > > It is my responsability to write software that, for every field, create > a "canonical" representation or there's an Axis configuration that makes > every field converted to "canonical representation". > > An example: I've a "decimal" field that in my software is a BigDecimal. > This data arrives to us form two different sources. > The first source send us a BigDecimal always with scale 3, the second > adapts the scale to the number of meaningful decimals. > This means that if we have the number 130, the first source will send > "130.000" and the second "130". > If I've to send this data via SOAP to another software, the > representation will be different in the two case (even though the value > is the same). Now, the mantainers of the other software are complaining > about incoherence of the representation (???). > > I haven't yet understood clearly why the different representation should > bother them, but reading the specs I found out that using "canonical > representation" there wouldn't be different ways to express the same > value, thus eliminating the incoherence(???). > > How can I obtain "canonical representation"? I've to "normalize" all the > data in my application (setting the scale for all the BigDecimal I > pass)? Or is there a switch in Axis to say "canonize all the data I'm > passing"? Or is something else I'm missing (some "adapter" classes to > implement)? > > The "decimal representation" specs: > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal-lexical-representation > http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#decimal-canonical-representation > > Thanks in advance, > Fabio > > P.S.: I searched the mailing list, the docs, the FAQ, google, jira and > couldn't find a clear answer.. if it turns out it is a beginner question > (quite likely, since I'm a beginner :-), could you point out a resource > where I can find the requested info? > >
