Class Inheritance support?

Submitted by dantleech on July 4, 2008 - 08:08. Forums :

Project: WSO2 WSF/PHP

Does the extension support class inheritance?

i.e. if i have a class and a response object that extends from a common base ...

class myService
{
  public function myMethod()
  {
    $response = new MyResponse;
    $response -> is_success = true;
    $response -> blah = 'blah';
    
    return $response;
  }
}

abstract class Response
{
  public $is_success;
}

class MyResponse extends Response
{
  public $blah;
}

assuming that I have added type comments to the file - will the WSDL and webservice client respect the inheritance?

cheers

dan

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1. If you want to generate

Submitted by dimuthuc on July 4, 2008 - 19:11.

1. If you want to generate WSDL from the above code in fact the generated WSDL doesn't reflect the inheritance. (normally in schema we use complex content extension for such kind of inheritance).

2. If you already have the WSDL, WSF/PHP realizes that the child object inherits it's parent attributes, but it doesn't realize any polymorphic behavior, such as you can't send the child's instance in place of parents type.

Thanks
Dimuthu

So is there /any/ way to

Submitted by dantleech on July 7, 2008 - 01:23.

So is there /any/ way to realize polymorphic behavior?

This is quite important for the webservice I am designing, which features record management and will have ambiguous methods such as 'save', for example:

  $customer_record = new CustomerRecord; // customer record extends 'Record';
  $customer_record -> name = 'Dan';
  $save_request = new SaveRequest;
  $save_request -> record = $customer_record;
  
  $api = new WebserviceApi
  $response = $api -> save($save_request);

cheers

one thing you can do is use

Submitted by dimuthuc on July 7, 2008 - 01:41.

one thing you can do is use the 'choice' content model for the save_request, for an example.

so in the message you can send either param1, param2 or param3 inside the saveRequest. But still you can not generate this from the code. (that is you can not use code first approach). Rather you have to write your wsdl on your own(contract first approach), and then provide the wsdl to WSClient or WSService to work.