Web Service CFC: Inserting multiple records

[GiantGinkgo]

I'm trying to create a web service in Coldfusion MX 6.1 that will allow a third
party to upload an arbitrary number of records into our system, through a
single call to the service. Basically I want to set it up to handle multiple
tiers in the end to be similar to this:

Customers (Parent)

> Customer[1] (Child of Customers)

> > Address[1] (Child of Customer[1])
> > Address[2]

> Customer[2]

> > Address[1]

> Customer[3]

I can't figure out how to get the Customer.cfc to be a part of an array. I
want the WSDL file to show the structure properly so that the third party can
do their implementation easily based off of the generated file. If I do this,
I get some nasty Java errors:

<cfcomponent displayName="ModifyCustomers">
<cfproperty name="Customers" type="Array" required="true">
<cfproperty name="Customers.Customer" type="Customer" required="true">
.... code ....
</cfcomponent>

I've looked everywhere for an example along these lines, but there doesn't
appear to be any. Any idea on how to get this to work?

Thanks,

Patrick

[GiantGinkgo]

Bump!

[Tom Jordahl]

You should be able to define an array of customer.cfc:
<cfargument name="in" type="customer[]" required="yes">

Then in your customer.cfc file you can have cfproperties that are arrays
themselves:
<cfproperty name="address" type="array">

I think that should get you going in the right direction.

--
Tom Jordahl
Macromedia Server Development

[MSDesigns]

Tom,

Is this CF7 syntax you're using here? The syntax you gave in your example does
not work in 6.1? Like Patrick, I'm trying to create a simple service that takes
in an array of arrays or an array of structures (whichever one I can get
working first).

And like Patrick, I need this structure to be reflected in the WSDL that's
auto-magically created so third-parties can consume.

Any help would be appreciated - I've found very little in documentation on
this subject. If CF can't do this, please recommend another route.