Re: [SOAP] Custom SOAP Types of Custom SOAP types?

I guess I'm not certain what you mean by 'inheritance with SOAP'. SOAP is an xml messaging system, not an object layer. You need to do your OO stuff in the client or server, and pass the xml message that will sufficiently provide the data needed on the other end. Shane Rob Booth wrote:

I have a wierd problem that I've been banging my head against for some time. I'm trying to simulate inheritance with SOAP (if SOAP does this I haven't found any information about it). So I have an object that has 4 fields only 1 of which will be populated at any time. These fields represent derived objects. When I populate one of these fields and then build my SOAP_Value I get this: - <ns4:GetPlayPlanResponse> - <PlayPlan xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array" SOAP-ENC:arrayType="ns4:IntervalPlayPlan[1]" SOAP-ENC:offset="[0]"> - <IntervalPlayPlan xsi:type="ns4:IntervalPlayPlan"> ---DataRemoved--- </IntervalPlayPlan> </PlayPlan> </ns4:GetPlayPlanResponse> What I think I should be getting back is this: - <ns4:GetPlayPlanResponse> - <PlayPlan xsi:type="ns4:PlayPlan"> - <IntervalPlayPlan xsi:type="ns4:IntervalPlayPlan"> ---DataRemoved--- </IntervalPlayPlan> </PlayPlan> </ns4:GetPlayPlanResponse> Has anyone run into anything like this? Or does anyone know if I can build Inheritance into my SOAP Types? I've been able to force PEAR::SOAP to generate the second response if I add a simple type to my PlayPlan object, or if I set more than 1 of my fields to a value. But when I only have one field populated and the others are null I get that encoding section. Any help is appreciated, Rob