Improve SOAP Response Type Inference for User-Friendly Code

[Nuvindu]

Description:

Currently, when making SOAP requests with Ballerina, users receive responses in a format that may not be the most user-friendly:

xml|mime:Entity[] response = check soapClient->sendReceive(envelope, "http://tempuri.org/Add");

This approach poses usability issues since users can't directly assign the response into a variable with a specific type.

Proposed Enhancement:

We propose enhancing the SOAP response handling in Ballerina to allow the user to infer the response type based on the type specified for the variable. This change will make the code more user-friendly and intuitive. Users will have the flexibility to define the type of the response variable as follows:

xml response = check soapClient->sendReceive(envelope, "http://tempuri.org/Add");

OR

mime:Entity[] response = check soapClient->sendReceive(envelope, "http://tempuri.org/Add");

This improvement will simplify the code and improve the developer experience by allowing them to work with SOAP responses in a more natural and intuitive manner.