Bug #62378 [Com]: PHP incorrectly encodes null values in SOAP

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62378&edit=1 ID: 62378 Comment by: peter_liang at vtech dot com Reported by: webmaster at guestwho dot com Summary: PHP incorrectly encodes null values in SOAP Status: Open Type: Bug Package: SOAP related Operating System: FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE PHP Version: 5.3.14 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Please see if the solution in #74984 addresses this issue. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2013-06-18 14:47:20] koblavino at gmail dot com Please, can somebody tell me in which PHP version we dont get this problem? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-11-21 18:28:02] seth at sethmatics dot com Not sure what version of PHP your using, but my version of PHP is properly setting the xsi:nil on NULL values. I found this bug while searching for issue with "disappearing nodes when value is null". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2012-06-20 23:24:37] webmaster at guestwho dot com Description: ------------ This is a duplicate of #41745 but that's been stuck on "No Feedback" since 2007, so I thought I'd re-post. When null is provided for a SOAP parameter or the field of an object passed as a SOAP parameter, PHP incorrectly encodes the parameter as being empty (e.g. object with all null fields, or empty string) which is different from an actual null. This breaks access to real-world web services. Test script: --------------- --------------- $soap = new SoapClient('/path/to/wsdl', array('trace' => true)); $soap->operation(null); echo $soap->__getLastRequest(); Expected result: ---------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="NAMESPACE" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns1:operation> <paramName xsi:nil="true"/> </ns1:operation> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> Actual result: -------------- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:ns1="NAMESPACE"> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <ns1:operation> <paramName/> </ns1:operation> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62378&edit=1