Question

I am using native Oracle XML DB Web Services (using a PL/SQL function with a web service).
I want to drop null values (put nothing in the output (no XML element)).
It’s working with Oracle 11.2.0.1.0 but not with Oracle 11.2.0.3.0.

Just to clarify… I don’t want to consume a webservice with PL/SQL, I want to publish my PL/SQL packages/procedures/functions as a web service!

Hope someone can help me.
Thank you.

In this example is the column “country” null.

Oracle 11.2.0.1.0 (this is what I want):

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    <soap:Body>
  <GET_PERSONOutput xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/orawsv/TESTSTUFF/GET_PERSON">
        <RETURN>
          <PERSON>
          <PERSON_ID>3</PERSON_ID>
          <FIRST_NAME>Harry</FIRST_NAME>
          <LAST_NAME>Potter</LAST_NAME>
        </PERSON>
      </RETURN>
    </GET_PERSONOutput>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Oracle 11.2.0.3.0:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <GET_PERSONOutput xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/orawsv/TESTSTUFF/GET_PERSON">
     <RETURN>
        <PERSON>
           <PERSON_ID>3</PERSON_ID>
           <FIRST_NAME>Harry</FIRST_NAME>
           <LAST_NAME>Potter</LAST_NAME>
           <COUNTRY/>
        </PERSON>
     </RETURN>
    </GET_PERSONOutput>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Answer 1

To all people with the same problem:

I created a Oracle Service request for this problem and the Oracle support says:

This does not exist for access via procedures/functions. Here the WSDL is
driven from function definition which has no way to specify null behavior.

Hope this information is helpful for you.