'proper' is completely subjective. Every SOAP toolkit seems to have its own little quirks, and finding something that completely interoperates can be a royal pain in the ass.

If there is a limited number of valid keys that are going to be in the hash, I would bless the hashref ( so that SOAP::Lite will give it a specific datatype ), and would define the hash as being an 'all' complex type, and not a 'sequence', as it allows the elements to appear in any order, but no more than one occurance each.

If you don't know what the valid keys might be, you can force SOAP::Lite to serialize it as a mapping, but I didn't have much luck with that in my WSDL, because it seems that apache no longer makes that file available, and I don't know exactly how to define it. (it seems to be an array of items, each having two elements (a key and value, but I can't remember what they were called... just mess with the 'as_mapping' function in SOAP::Lite, and you'll see what I'm talking about).

And if that didn't help... try the soaplite mailing list

In reply to Re: Describing hashes in WSDL? by jhourcle
in thread Describing hashes in WSDL? by suaveant

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