When will SCA start support for data structure?

[mmuru]

Greetings SCA Team,

Currently, the SCA supports data structure like PHP objects, arrays
through XSD/SDO. In the SCA documentation page says in future it is
possible to define type based on the data structures.

I wonder when will it happen? If not, are there tools which I could
use to generate the XSD/SDO? Is it part of the SCA scope?

It is really very painful to convert the existing data structures to/
from xsd/sdo in the large projects. I really want to leverage SCA in
the projects and publish them as web services.

I really appreciate your thoughts and comments.

Thanks,
muru

[Graham Charters]

Hi Muru,

This is something we've wanted to get to, but time constraints have
meant we've not been able to. The idea was we would allow the types
to be defined by PHP objects which would need to be 'documented' with
type information in order for us to derive a static type and
optionally generate an XSD as part of WSDL generation.

I'm not sure when anyone would get to this, but we welcome any
thoughts or involvement.

I'm not aware of any tools. I seem to recall Zend Studio has WSDL
generation capabilities and it may be that it supports data structures
as source for creating XML schema.

I'm sorry the news is not better. I'd be interested to know any
approach you find that works for you.

Regards, Graham.

Post by mmuru
Greetings SCA Team,
Currently, the SCA supports data structure like PHP objects, arrays
through XSD/SDO. In the SCA documentation page says in future it is
possible to define type based on the data structures.
I wonder when will it happen? If not, are there tools which I could
use to generate the XSD/SDO? Is it part of the SCA scope?
It is really very painful to convert the existing data structures to/
from xsd/sdo in the large projects. I really want to leverage SCA in
the projects and publish them as web services.
I really appreciate your thoughts and comments.
Thanks,
muru

[mmuru]

Hi Graham,

Thanks for information. I will check it out Zend studio but I would
love to squeeze my time and get involved in this task.
I think, the SCA is matured enough to start support complex data
types.

I will do some research on this and get back to you soon.

Thanks again
muru

Post by Graham Charters
Hi Muru,
This is something we've wanted to get to, but time constraints have
meant we've not been able to. The idea was we would allow the types
to be defined by PHP objects which would need to be 'documented' with
type information in order for us to derive a static type and
optionally generate an XSD as part of WSDL generation.
I'm not sure when anyone would get to this, but we welcome any
thoughts or involvement.
I'm not aware of any tools. I seem to recall Zend Studio has WSDL
generation capabilities and it may be that it supports data structures
as source for creating XML schema.
I'm sorry the news is not better. I'd be interested to know any
approach you find that works for you.
Regards, Graham.

Post by mmuru
Greetings SCA Team,
Currently, the SCA supports data structure like PHP objects, arrays
through XSD/SDO. In the SCA documentation page says in future it is
possible to define type based on the data structures.
I wonder when will it happen? If not, are there tools which I could
use to generate the XSD/SDO? Is it part of the SCA scope?
It is really very painful to convert the existing data structures to/
from xsd/sdo in the large projects. I really want to leverage SCA in
the projects and publish them as web services.
I really appreciate your thoughts and comments.
Thanks,
muru