Nolan, That's from an article I did for oreilly.com a while back: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/09/24/coldfusion_tips.html?page=1 As far as I know, it isn't a bug. I don't know the WSDL 1.1 spec well enough to answer whether it is a function of that design, or specific to Axis. However, I haven't come across any web services yet that support optional arguments. -Rob "Nolan Erck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@cfczone.org on 10/07/2004 02:16:03 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: [CFCDev] Apache does not support optional parameters??? A co-worker just found the following documentation (i'm not sure where exactly): 6. Watch Optional Arguments If you plan to expose your CFCs as web services, be careful with optional arguments. The Apache Axis 1.1 web services engine used by ColdFusion MX 6.1 does not support optional input arguments. If your CFC methods contain optional arguments, the required attribute setting is ignored, and the argument is treated as required. Here's an example: <cfcomponent> <cffunction name="getMessage" access="remote" returntype="string" output="no"> <cfargument name="name" type="string" required="no" default="Stinky"> <cfreturn "Hello " & arguments.name &"! " & "I've been invoked as a web service."> </cffuntion> </cfcomponent> In this case, even though name is an optional argument as far as the CFC is concerned, it is required when you expose it as a web service. If you try to call the component method as a web service and don't provide a name argument, ColdFusion throws an error. -------------------------- that sounds like either a fairly big bug to me, or something we can easily work around with a particular coding style that we're just not using here (yet). Has anyone else experienced this? Any insight on preferred ways to deal with it? Thanks, Nolan ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). An archive of the CFCDev list is available at www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
