OpenEdge supports a set of alternative ABL data types (in addition to a suggested data type) to represent the value for an XML Schema data type in ABL. These alternative data types essentially force the Web service invocation to cast the value between the specified native ABL representation and the corresponding XML Schema data type. The result of this casting might not preserve as much accuracy as the suggested mapping.

The following table shows all the supported castings (alternative mappings) between the XML Schema and ABL data types. The suggested ABL data type mapping for each XML Schema type appears in bold font.

Note: OpenEdge supports no castings for the RECID, ROWID, or HANDLE ABL data types.
Table 1. Supported casts between data types
XML Schema data type ABL data type
anyURI 
CHARACTER 
LONGCHAR
base64Binary 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
MEMPTRRAW
boolean 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
byte 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
date 
CHARACTER
DATE
DATETIME
DATETIME-TZ
dateTime 
CHARACTER
DATE
DATETIME
DATETIME-TZ
decimal 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
double 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
duration 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
ENTITIES 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
ENTITY 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
float 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
gDay 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
gMonth 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
gMonthDay 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
gYear 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
gYearMonth 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
hexBinary 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
MEMPTRRAW
ID 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
IDREF 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
IDREFS 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
int 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
integer 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
Language 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
long 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
Name 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
NCName 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
negativeInteger 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LONGCHAR
NMTOKEN 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
NMTOKENS 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
nonNegativeInteger 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
nonPositiveInteger 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
normalizedString 
CHARACTER
DATE
DATETIME
DATETIME-TZ
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
NOTATION 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
positiveInteger 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LONGCHAR
qName 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
short 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
string 
CHARACTER
DATE
DATETIME
DATETIME-TZ
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
time 
CHARACTER
INT64
INTEGER
LONGCHAR
token 
CHARACTER
LONGCHAR
unsignedByte 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
unsignedInt 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
unsignedLong 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR
unsignedShort 
CHARACTER
DECIMAL
INT64
INTEGER
LOGICAL
LONGCHAR