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>Charles,
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>Which version of OFBiz are you using? If I remember right this was a problem a long time ago but is no longer.
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>-David
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>Andrew Sykes wrote:
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>>Charles,
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>>
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>>>I'll check the IN/OUT parameters - not really 100% sure how that works anyway.
>>>
>>>
>>A quick summary...
>>
>>OFBiz services take and return a Map of values, input values are
>>validated before the service is run and output values are validated
>>after the service runs.
>>
>>The services.xml (called this by convention - not imperative) file is
>>used to define the input and output parameters as well as their type, so
>>the definition of a parameter looks something like this...
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>><attribute name="myvalue" type="String" mode="IN" optional="true"/>
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>>"myvalue" is the name you assign to your parameter.
>> e.g. when compiling the input map you might do something like
>> inputMap.put("myvalue",new String("This is my input value"));
>>
>>"type" is the java type, any java type is allowed here (e.g.
>>java.util.List )
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>>"mode" can be either...
>> IN input parameter only
>> OUT output parameter only
>> INOUT used as both an input and output parameter
>>
>>"optional" if set to false then service validation will fail if the
>>parameter is missing.
>>
>>I hope that helps.
>>
>>
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6860. I'd be grateful if you could advise reasonably quickly before i waste too much time ;-)