Well, I've spent some more hours today trying things and googling... I just can't figure how to achieve this, and I can't imagine it would be not possible.

Obviously Toni-Fatec and plegall succeeded, but some part of their explanations are missing... and the link they provided, http://talendforge.org/test/ws/soap_server.php?wsdl , is dead.

I'll read every clue with great attention...

TIA

Fred

FredT wrote:

hmmm... is there anything wrong with my questions ?

Nothing wrong with your question. Here comes a solution :-)

I'm going to propose a solution a bit more complex than "just a tWebServiceInput", so I wand to explain why. The "problem" is that GetPeople is not returning an "ARRAY", but a specific "ArrayOfPerson".

$ stubmaker.pl http://examples.qcodo.com/examples/communication/example_service.php?wsdl

$ perl "-MExampleService qw(:all)" -le "use Data::Dumper; print Dumper(GetPeople('Smith'))"
$VAR1 = bless( [ 
                 bless( { 
                          '__blnRestored' => 1,
                          'FirstName' => 'Alex',
                          'Id' => '5',
                          'LastName' => 'Smith'
                        }, 'Person' ),
                 bless( { 
                          '__blnRestored' => 1,
                          'FirstName' => 'Wendy',
                          'Id' => '6',
                          'LastName' => 'Smith'
                        }, 'Person' ),
                 bless( { 
                          '__blnRestored' => 1,
                          'FirstName' => 'Jennifer',
                          'Id' => '10',
                          'LastName' => 'Smith'
                        }, 'Person' )
               ], 'ArrayOfPerson' );

And if you look at the Perl code generated by tWebServiceInput, you can see that I check for an "ARRAY", not a "ArrayOfPerson". This is something I had not expected when I designed this component (but things can changed, you'll see what I propose in the next post).

So, tWebServiceInput can't produce a nice data structure as output but only a big Perl structure, and tPerlRow will do the smart job. The code in tPerlRow is:

foreach my $person (@{ $input_row[array_of_person] }) {
    push @persons, [$person->{FirstName}, $person->{LastName}];
}

By default the tArrayIn component is not visible in the palette. You have to make it visible. Go in the "Project settings" (button in the toolbar), Designer > Palette Settings.

FredT, may I ask you to create a feature request in the bugtracker to ask for this improvement to be integrated into next release?