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Publishing structures
A ColdFusion structure can hold an unlimited number of key-value pairs where the values can be
of any ColdFusion data type. While it is a very useful and powerful way to represent data, it
cannot be directly mapped to any XML data types defined in the SOAP 1.1 encoding and XML
Schema specification. Therefore, ColdFusion structures are treated as a custom type and the
complex type XML schema in WSDL looks like the following:
<complexType name="Map">
<sequence>
<element name="item" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<complexType>
<all>
<element name="key" type="xsd:anyType" />
<element name="value" type="xsd:anyType" />
</all>
</complexType>
</element>
</sequence>
</complexType>
This complex type defines a representation of a structure, where the structure keys and values can
be any type.
If you register the component in Dreamweaver MX, it appears in the Components tab of the
Application panel.
In the WSDL mapping of a ColdFusion structure, each key/value pair in the structure points to
the next element in the structure except for the final field, which contains a value. For example, if
you have a structure containing the field A.B.C, that field is represented as the following figure
shows:
Publishing queries
ColdFusion publishes query data types as the WSDL type QueryBean. The QueryBean data type
contains two elements, as the following excerpt from a WSDL file shows:
<complexType name="QueryBean">
<all>
<element name="data" nillable="true" type="intf:ArrayOf_SOAP-ENC_Array" /
>
<element name="ColumnList" nillable="true"
type="intf:ArrayOf_SOAP-ENC_string" />
</all>
</complexType>
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