I am finding this task uncharacteristically difficult to do with Cold
Fusion.
I suspect there is an easier way, I just cant think of it.
Here is the situation.
There is an external Webservice that returns XML containing information
on all unpaid invoices for a customer.
The XML document contains 1 or many invoices each having 1 or many
invoice detail lines.
The CF program I am writing is supposed to:
. call the webservice
. get the XML info and either:
A. save it in an XML text file for further processing by
Excel or Access or another CF program or ...
B. convert it to a struct, process it a bit, like total
fields, rename fields
producing a new struct which is then saved to an XML
text file
The external (non CF) webservice returns a "complex" structure like:
InvoiceCollection
. countOfInvoices
. totalAmount
. Invoices: (repeating multiple times)
. invoiceNumber
. invoiceDate
. invoiceAmount
. countOfInvoiceLines
. InvoiceLines (repeating multiple times)
. lineNumber
. description
. amount
I have successfully accepted the webservice return object and produced a
CF struct from it.
It was a bit tedious, but I have it done.
After I had the struct I thought I could use the data conversion routine
StructToXml from cflib.org to produce a string that I would write to a
file with cffile.
It was missing the arrayOfStructs. Not much there.
Then I read the fine print on StructToXml and noted that it says it
converts "simple" structs.
A struct whose elements include an array of stucts is not included in
the definition of simple.
Darn I said.
Basically, right now, I have my struct and I am stuck.
What I originally thought to be a simple task for Cold Fusion (CF nicely
takes many otherwise complex tasks and makes them simple)
has got me stuck.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks
Archie Campbell
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