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Nullable time fields within Webservices always returned as null

Troubleshooting


Problem

Applying nullables to time fields within a Webservice is incorrectly returning empty values rather then the actual value.

Symptom

The scenario concerns an application which retrieves a basic record via a REST Webservice which in turn includes nullable time fields. Where users then edit the record to fill any of the time fields when the record is returned via the service those input values are ignored and the fields are returned as null.

A widget implementing a webservice call eg:
service MyWebservice
function testFunction(myTime time? in)
writeStdOut("Received time (must be current time): " + myTime);
end
will return the time as blank:"Received time (must be current time): "

Removing the nullable from the above service the applicable time is returned.

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Document Information

Modified date:
02 August 2018

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