SOAP Library

[Mark Smith]

I work with a couple of SOAP services, and frankly, I'm with Dave in  
not really seeing the point of it. It seems to be a sledge-hammer to  
crack a nut.

The approach I take is to make template requests with placeholders,  
store them in custom properties, copy them into variables and fill  
them in and post them as necessary. I then have handlers to deal with  
each type of response. It's quite a lot of work for a SOAP service  
with a lot of different methods, but you only have to address the  
particular methods you're interested in, and it works well. It  
doesn't produce a generalised SOAP library though.

Best,

Mark


On 5 Oct 2007, at 15:27, David Burgun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am interested in using SOAP to communicate between a client and  
> server. I downloaded "Unsupported Stacks"  from the RunRev web site  
> and found a  file called "SOAP_toolbox.rev" which seems to do what  
> I want. However when I came to use the functions in the stack, I  
> found a few problems, for instance:
>
> function revSoapComplexRequest pUrl, pBody, pSoapAction
>   put empty into lcSoapResponse ##clear response data
>   put "Content-Type: text/xml" into tHeaders
>   put cr & "SOAPAction:" && quote & pSoapAction & quote after tHeaders
>
>   put the cSoapEnvelope of me into tSOAPEnvelope
>   put pMethod into tMethod					-- 
> *************************************************************
>   put "m:" before tMethod
>   put "<" & tMethod &&  "xmlns:m=" & quote & pNamespace & quote &  
> ">" into tMethodTag
>   replace "<METHOD><PARAMS/></METHOD>"  with pBody  in tSOAPEnvelope
>   set the httpHeaders to tHeaders
>   post tSOAPEnvelope to url pUrl
>   put it into lcSoapResponse
>   return the result
> end revSoapComplexRequest
>
> Please see the line marked with "***************", the statement:
>
>   put pMethod into tMethod					-- 
> *************************************************************
>
> Causes a problems since pMethod is not defined in this function.
>
> Does anyone know why this is like this? Is there a more up to date  
> SOAP library? Is there another library that is more up to date?
>
> Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated.
>
> All the Best
> Dave
>
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