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Controlling Use of the xsi:type Attribute

By default, InterSystems IRIS® data platform SOAP messages include the xsi:type attribute only for the top-level types. For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
...
<types:GetPersonResponse>
<GetPersonResult href="#id1" />
</types:GetPersonResponse>
<types:Person id="id1" xsi:type="types:Person">
<Name>Yeats,Clint C.</Name>
<DOB>1944-12-04</DOB>
</types:Person>  
...

In these examples, line breaks have been added for readability. To use this attribute for all types in the SOAP messages, set the OUTPUTTYPEATTRIBUTE parameter or the OutputTypeAttribute property to 1. The same output would look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
...
<types:GetPersonResponse>
<GetPersonResult href="#id1" />
</types:GetPersonResponse>
<types:Person id="id1" xsi:type="types:Person">
<Name xsi:type="s:string">Yeats,Clint C.</Name>
<DOB xsi:type="s:date">1944-12-04</DOB>
</types:Person> 
...

This parameter has no effect on the WSDL of the web service.

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