Holds
business data relating to the task. The underlying data
structures used to hold the business data in a TaskData object is different for
regular Web-service clients and .NET clients.
TaskData Structure for Regular
Web-service clients
For regular, Java-based Web-service clients, the
TaskData object is a Map object in which business data is structured as a set
of key-value pairs. Keys must be string values. Values can be any data type.
In the following example, the TaskData object
holds customer information in a set of five key-value pairs.
| Key
|
Value
|
|
firstName
|
String
Anna
|
|
lastName
|
String
Pareo
|
|
emailAddress
|
String
apareo@msx.com
|
|
acctNum
|
String
J5468-6268-508
|
|
TransactionCodes
|
String [
] 20060819A1430
20060330P0604
20060314A1128
|
|
TaskData Structure for .NET
Clients
For .NET clients,
TaskData is a Map object that is made up of an array of
MapEntry data structures. A MapEntry data structure contains two fields, as
shown below:
| Field
|
Description
|
|
key
|
String
A name given to the field.
|
|
value
|
AnyType The data that belongs to the field.
|
|
In the following example, the
TaskData array contains five
MapEntry data structures. Each entry consists of a field
called "key," which represents the name of the field, and a field called
"value," which contains the value of the field.
| Element #
|
key field
|
value field
|
|
0
|
firstName
|
String
Anna
|
|
1
|
lastName
|
String
Pareo
|
|
2
|
emailAddress
|
String
apareo@msx.com
|
|
3
|
acctNum
|
String
J5468-6268-508
|
|
4
|
TransactionCodes
|
String[
] 20060819A1430
20060330P0604
20060314A1128
|
|