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Consuming web services that use complex data types

The following table shows how WSDL data types are converted to ColdFusion data types:

ColdFusion data type	WSDL data type
numeric	SOAP-ENC:double
boolean	SOAP-ENC:boolean
string	SOAP-ENC:string
array	SOAP-ENC:Array
binary	xsd:base64Binary
date	xsd:dateTime
void (operation returns nothing)
struct*	complex type

This table shows that complex data types map to ColdFusion structures. ColdFusion structures offer a flexible way to represent data. You can create structures that contain single-dimension arrays, multi-dimensional arrays, and other structures.

The ColdFusion mapping of complex types to structures is not automatic. You have to perform some processing on the data in order to access it as a structure. The next sections describe how to pass complex types to web services, and how to handle complex types returned from web services.


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