APEX Web Service parsing error

Question

Hello
APEX is creating an incorrect item for parameters on my web service below.
Instead of creating two items of names "name" PARM_TYPE xsd:string and "stringValue" PARM_TYPE xsd:string it is creating a single input item called
namestringValue     PARM_TYPExsd:stringxsd:string
<xsd:complexType name="NameParameterValuePair">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="name" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1">
<xsd:element name="stringValue" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="booleanValue" type="xsd:boolean"/>
<xsd:element name="dateValue" type="xsd:dateTime"/>
<xsd:element name="numericValue" type="messages:NumericValue"/>
</xsd:choice>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
I dont know why it is concatenating the two elements.
I am running apex 3.1.1.00.09 has anyone ever run into this problem or have any suggestions?
Thanks in advanced
Rashad

Answer 1

I found a bug in the Apex handling of WSDL files that was verified by Oracle and reported in metalink quite a while back. I don't remember what version of Apex it was, and I don't know whether the use-case was exactly the same as yours or not.
I believe the way I verified the problem was I compared the Apex handling of the WSDL with another WSDL tool and the results were clearly different.
It appeared to me back then that the Apex developers didn't handle the full WSDL standards correctly, and I'm not sure if they've spent more time on making sure that's more robust or not.
Not much help, I know, but thought I'd let you know that I did uncover a bug re: web services handling.
Earl