Two dimensional arrays and .NET Web Servicec :(

[gicio]

Hi!!

 

Yesterday I find out that two dimensional arrays are not supported by

webservices.

 

:(

 

Can someone tell me how I can anyway use two dimensional arrays and web

services?!

 

 

 

regards,

 

 

gicio

[mocella]

Depending on how you're using your services (ie which platforms you want to support - java, .net, etc), you could try to use a dataset for your return and just create a datatable of your 2d array info.

 

Another approach, to keep with standard data-types, would be to use a string and use two delimiters to determine what was a column and what was a row - say the column delimiter is "," and row delimiter is ";":

value1, value2, value3; value1, value2, value3;

 

Then your caller would have to use a Join function to reassemble your strings into an array, but at least this is a supported type for web-services to return.