Web Service Data Types Data Binding
When you are writing the web service it all depends on what you have defined in your XML schema. Types and formatting of data transmitted in SOAP message defined XML schema which should follow the specification of data types which can be use:
- XML to Java Mapping Data Types:
| XML Schema Data Type | Equivalent Java Data Type (lower case is primitive data type) |
| boolean | boolean |
| byte | byte |
| short | short |
| int | int |
| long | long |
| float | float |
| double | double |
| integer | java.math.BigInteger |
| decimal | java.math.BigDecimal |
| string | java.lang.String |
| dateTime | java.util.Calendar |
| base64Binary | byte[] |
| hexBinary | byte[] |
| duration | java.lang.String |
| time | java.util.Calendar |
| date | java.util.Calendar |
| gYearMonth | java.lang.String |
| gYear | java.lang.String |
| gMonthDay | java.lang.String |
| gDay | java.lang.String |
| gMonth | java.lang.String |
| anyURI | java.net.URI |
| NOTATION | java.lang.String |
| token | java.lang.String |
| normalizedString | java.lang.String |
| language | java.lang.String |
| Name | java.lang.String |
| NMTOKEN | java.lang.String |
| NCName | java.lang.String |
| NMTOKENS | java.lang.String[] |
| ID | java.lang.String |
| IDREF | java.lang.String |
| ENTITY | java.lang.String |
| IDREFS | java.lang.String[] |
| ENTITIES | java.lang.String[] |
| nonPositiveInteger | java.math.BigInteger |
| nonNegativeInteger | java.math.BigInteger |
| negativeInteger | java.math.BigInteger |
| unsignedLong | java.math.BigInteger |
| positiveInteger | java.math.BigInteger |
| unsignedInt | long |
| unsignedShort | int |
| unsignedByte | short |
| Qname | javax.xml.namespace.QName |
- Java to XML Mapping Data Types:
| Java Data Type (lower case is primitive data type) | Equivalent XML Schema Data Type |
| int | int |
| short | short |
| long | long |
| float | float |
| double | double |
| byte | byte |
| boolean | boolean |
| char | string (with facet of length=1) |
| java.lang.Integer | int |
| java.lang.Short | short |
| java.lang.Long | long |
| java.lang.Float | float |
| java.lang.Double | double |
| java.lang.Byte | byte |
| java.lang.Boolean | boolean |
| java.lang.Character | string (with facet of length=1) |
| java.lang.String | string |
| java.math.BigInteger | integer |
| java.math.BigDecimal | decimal |
| java.util.Calendar | dateTime |
| java.util.Date | dateTime |
| byte[] | base64Binary |
| javax.xml.namespace.QName | Qname |
| java.net.URI | anyURI |
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