"price_changes" not compatible with "typens:associativeArray"

[m-schreiber]

In the Magento 1.9 wsdl.xml the type "typens:associativeArray" is definend like this:
<complexType name="associativeEntity"> <all> <element name="key" type="xsd:string"/> <element name="value" type="xsd:string"/> </all> </complexType> <complexType name="associativeArray"> <complexContent> <restriction base="soapenc:Array"> <attribute ref="soapenc:arrayType" wsdl:arrayType="typens:associativeEntity[]"/> </restriction> </complexContent> </complexType>

So a "associativeArray" has to contain the keys "key" & "value" and this is incompatible with the data-structure the code requires:
'price_changes' => array( array( 'color' => array( 'Red' => '2', 'Blue' => '-10%', ), 'size' => array( 'Large' => '+1', 'Medium' => '-3', ), ), ),

I'am not an expert in WSDL but I think this calls for a new type definition?

An alternative Fix I did quick and dirty is to change the type of "price_changes" to "xsd:string" and do json_encode / serialize before calling the function with the soapclient and then in the api there needs to be the equivalent json_decode / unserialize.

Does anyone still maintain this extension ? Do you accept pull request ? Or is there another way to do this (create and associate configurable products), that i'am not aware of ?