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webservice response contains s:type attributes

Symptom

When invoking certain third party webservices through PowerBuilder, an additional "s:type" parameter is appended to returned XML elements.

Environment

PowerBuilder

Reproducing the Issue

1. Create a webservice proxy to a specific third party webservice (for example Systems Union)*

2. Call the webservice and the response will have s:type element attribute similar to below: 

      <ns1:Header

      s:type="ns1:typeImportHeader">

      <ns1:Version

      s:type="y:string">1.0</m:Version>

      <ns1:SourceApplication

      s:type="y:string">XXXXX</m:SourceApplication>

      <ns1:Status

      s:type="y:string">TEST</m:Status>

      <ns1:ReturnCheckResults

      s:type="y:boolean">true</m:ReturnCheckResults>

      <ns1:LangID

      s:type="y:string"></m:LangID>

Solution

Both formats (with or without s:type) are correct and should be handled correctly by the SOAP engine.

For customers using easySOAP engine that want to remove the s:type attributes the following key/value pair can be added to your application's pb.ini file to change the format used: 

[Web Service]
OmitSoapParameterType=1

Please note this only applies to easySOAP proxy objects.

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