I have a Java based XMLRPC server which sends back a struct from a
method call. In this struct there can be many key/value pairs where the
value is a blank string.
These blank strings don't get added to the returned struct (array). The
check 'empty($member->value)' is catching this case and preventing the
value from being added to the struct. From reading the spec this is
perfectly valid. An example XML (part) output is
<member>
<name>
address
</name>
<value></value>
</member>
which should be valid because if no type is defined in between
<value></value> then string is assumed. (Similar discussion
http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-1364)
The relavent code is Zend/XmlRpc/Value.php:371
// Parse all the memebers of the struct from the XML string
// (simple xml element) to Zend_XmlRpc_Value objects
foreach ($value->member as $member) {
// @todo? If a member doesn't have a <value> tag, we
don't add it to the struct
// Maybe we want to throw an exception here ?
if ((!$member->value instanceof SimpleXMLElement) ||
empty($member->value)) {
continue;
//throw new Zend_XmlRpc_Value_Exception('Member
of the '. self::XMLRPC_TYPE_STRUCT .' XML-RPC native type must contain a
VALUE tag');
}
$values[(string)$member->name] =
self::_xmlStringToNativeXmlRpc($member->value);
}
Should I create a bug report for this?
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James Lucas
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