- From: Anderson, Todd A <todd.a.anderson@intel.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 10:17:03 -0700
- To: "'www-ws@w3.org'" <www-ws@w3.org>
Is there a way to do the equivalent of an XDR discriminated union in WSDL?
I'm looking
for a way to do this that is strongly typed.
Here is a snippet from rfc1832 describing discriminated unions.
thanks,
Todd
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3.15 Discriminated Union
A discriminated union is a type composed of a discriminant followed
by a type selected from a set of prearranged types according to the
value of the discriminant. The type of discriminant is either "int",
"unsigned int", or an enumerated type, such as "bool". The component
types are called "arms" of the union, and are preceded by the value
of the discriminant which implies their encoding. Discriminated
unions are declared as follows:
union switch (discriminant-declaration) {
case discriminant-value-A:
arm-declaration-A;
case discriminant-value-B:
arm-declaration-B;
...
default: default-declaration;
} identifier;
Each "case" keyword is followed by a legal value of the discriminant.
The default arm is optional. If it is not specified, then a valid
encoding of the union cannot take on unspecified discriminant values.
The size of the implied arm is always a multiple of four bytes.
The discriminated union is encoded as its discriminant followed by
the encoding of the implied arm.
0 1 2 3
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| discriminant | implied arm | DISCRIMINATED UNION
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
|<---4 bytes--->|
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