Adding an Array of Objects into an external Web-Service

Question

Hi all,
I want to populate an Array of Objects into an external Web-Service which I have introspected into BPM. But I am finding it difficult to do so which should be very easy I guess.
When i use the EXTEND keyword for adding the array of objects, it gives me the following parameters which are not required:-
testArray.records.extend(name : "", attributes : null, value : "", children : {  }, tagName : "", namespace : "", isNil : false);
I only need to populate the name and value pairs and do not need to populate others. But there is no way for me to do this.. How do I populate other parameters or skip them especially
children which is a Fuego.Xml.XMLObject[].. How do I populate that? How do I populate attributes which is an associative array and not required..
Is there a proper documentation of consuming external Web-Services into BPM?

Answer 1

Very interesting, I am going to have to really break this down and see if I can make sense out of it with my 300 lines of code LOL.
I think this may jsut work at first glance and will let you know!
It works. We all use it all of the time. The old Add-Member was a big pain in the neck.  InPowerShell V2 New-Object -Property ws added to take a hash of name/value pairs and convert them into an object in one step.  It is faster and more reliable.
$myprops=@{
    Name='joe'
    Birthdate=[datetime]'02-12-1965'
    Weight=[int]130
    Married=$false
    Flags=[byte]0x3F
# we can change a value on the fly
$myprops.Weight+=5  # adjust weight for liars
New-Object PsObject -Property $myprops
OR get name=value pairs from a file and make into an object
$fileprops=Get-Content mydata.txt | ConvertFrom-StringData
New-Object PsObject -Property $fileProps
There are more than a dozen other variations of how to levcerage this to create objects out of other things like results from old DOS commands.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯