Stephen,
What do you think is the functional difference between the following:
(They look like they would produce the same thing to me.)
So in theory this would expand to:
('Account Name' LIKE "ACCOUNT NAME"+"%")
Whch isn't really what I want, what I really want is:
('Account Name' LIKE "ACCOUNT NAME%")
However, one option would be to set up the Web Service as this...
('Account Name' LIKE XPATH(/ROOT/Account_name))
Then tell the Web Service client to pass in a value for Account_name
that ends in a "%".
Also keep in mind that they could just as easily pass in this value
too "%ACCOUNT NAME" and not have the trailing "%" in that case.
You might even opt for several operations that would allow the
WebServices client to choose if they want a LIKE with a forced
trailing "%", just a straight LIKE qualification, or maybe even the
old equals search as a third option.
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On 3/8/07, Stephen Earl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All,
I'm sure I've missed something really simple but I'm trying to get the
following scenario to work but for the life of me I can't, so here
goes:
I have a webservice which is querying an underlying form based on data
being provided by the WS client, the webservice is configured with the
following qualification:
('Account Name' = XPATH(/ROOT/Account_name))
This quite rightly only allows an '=' match, so we thought OK, let's
make it a like statement with the following qualification:
('Account Name' LIKE XPATH(/ROOT/Account_name)+"%")
So in theory this would expand to:
('Account Name' LIKE "ACCOUNT NAME"+"%")
Whch isn't really what I want, what I really want is:
('Account Name' LIKE "ACCOUNT NAME%")
How in a WebService qualification could I achieve this?
I know my easiest option is for me to specify to the consumer that
they should send their request with the '%' suffix in the request and
that would take care of it for me, but they aren't very receptive to
that idea...
Any thoughts?
Thanks muchly as always
Stephen.
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