ext/soap returning associative array as indexed without using WSDL

Bug #41097

Submitted:

2007-04-16 06:59 UTC

Modified:

2007-05-03 06:40 UTC

Votes:	2
Avg. Score:	4.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:	2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:	1 (50.0%)
Same OS:	0 (0.0%)

From:

r dot korving at xit dot nl

Assigned:

dmitry (profile)

Status:

Closed

Package:

SOAP related

PHP Version:

5.2.1

OS:

Debian

Private report:

CVE-ID:

None

[2007-04-16 06:59 UTC] r dot korving at xit dot nl

Description:
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Returning array('5' => 'Foo', '10' => 'Bar') from a SoapServer handler class ends up as array(0 => 'Foo', 1 => 'Bar') at the client end. But array('a' => 'Foo', 'b' => 'Bar') does end up correctly. It only fails with numeric keys. I'm not using WSDL in this case. I think integer keys that are not in a simple 0..n range should end up in an associative array, not indexed with new 0..n keys.

Reproduce code:
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<?php

class MyHandler
{
  public function getData()
  {
    return array('5' => 'Foo', '10' => 'Bar');
  }
}


// initialize soap-server:

$soap = new SoapServer(null, array('uri' => 'http://uri/', 'encoding' => 'ISO-8859-1'));
$soap->setClass('MyHandler');
$soap->handle();

?>

Expected result:
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array('5' => 'Foo', '10' => 'Bar')

Actual result:
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array(0 => 'Foo', 1 => 'Bar')

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[2007-05-02 08:22 UTC] dmitry@php.net

Your expectation is wrong because PHP converts numeric string indeces into integer.

$ sapi/cli/php -r 'var_dump(array("5" => "Foo", "10" => "Bar"));'
array(2) {
  [5]=>
  string(3) "Foo"
  [10]=>
  string(3) "Bar"
}

BTW I fixed ext/soap to use Apache:Map instead of SOAP-ENC:Array in case of partial arrays (missing indeces).

FIXED in CVS HEAD and PHP_5_2.

[2007-05-03 06:40 UTC] r dot korving at xit dot nl

Dmitry,

I don't mind it using integers at all, as long as it doesn't start renumbering from 0 to N. Thanks for the fix.