ABL parameter naming

The Request Mapping and Response Mapping tabs show the list of input and output parameters and the XML schema types that are required to invoke the operation. Each parameter can be mapped to the specific message parts or to messages headers, set to constants, or ignored. For request parameters, the data can also be transformed using XPath or wrapped in an XML element. For response parameters, the data can be placed in message parts or headers, inserted as XML elements or attributes, or discarded.

To help distinguish the ABL datatype of parameters, a special naming convention is used. Each parameter is identified by its ABL parameter name, followed by its ABL type, and the mode of the parameter (IN or OUT). The construction is:

ABLparameter_ABLdatatype_ABLparameter-type

The following table shows the resulting ESBOE parameters names if you expose an ABL procedure that has an integer named CustNum as the input parameter, and returns a string named CustName.