WS_ENUM_DESCRIPTION structure (webservices.h)

A type description that is used with WS_ENUM_TYPE and is required. It provides information used in serializing and deserializing values of an enumeration.

Syntax

typedef struct _WS_ENUM_DESCRIPTION {
  WS_ENUM_VALUE *values;
  ULONG         valueCount;
  ULONG         maxByteCount;
  ULONG         *nameIndices;
} WS_ENUM_DESCRIPTION;

Members

values

Points to an array of enumeration values and their corresponding names.

There must not be duplicate values or names in the array.

valueCount

The number of items in the values array.

maxByteCount

The length, in UTF8 bytes, of the longest name in the values array.

nameIndices

An optional array that provides information which can improve the performance of mapping enumeration values to names and back. This array may NULL, in which case an O(n) lookup is used, which may be sufficient for small numbers of enumerated values.

If non-NULL, the following must be true:

• The values array is required to be sorted by value, in ascending order.
• The nameIndices array points to an array that has valueCount items.
• The nameIndices array provides the indices of the items in the values array as if they were sorted by name in ascending order. The names should by sorted by performing a byte-wise comparison of the utf-8 string.

Remarks

The following examples illustrates initializing an enum description. This example illustrates the use of the nameIndices field, but this field could be NULL instead.

enum
{
    Red = 10,
    Green = 20,
    Blue = 30,
};

WS_XML_STRING redString = WS_XML_STRING_VALUE("red");
WS_XML_STRING greenString = WS_XML_STRING_VALUE("green");
WS_XML_STRING blueString = WS_XML_STRING_VALUE("blue");

// sorted by ascending numeric value
WS_ENUM_VALUE valueArray[3] =
{
    { Red, &redString },
    { Green, &greenString },
    { Blue, &blueString },
};

// sorted by ascending name
ULONG nameIndices[3] =
{
    2, // "blue"
    1, // "green"
    0, // "red"
};

WS_ENUM_DESCRIPTION enumDescription;
enumDescription.maxByteCount = 5; // "green"
enumDescription.values = valueArray;
enumDescription.valueCount = 3;
enumDescription.nameIndices = nameIndices;

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 7 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2008 R2 [desktop apps only]
Header	webservices.h