Re: How to work with Webservices (.asmx) server

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If you're not Dutch you're not much! Holland rocks!

From a fellow dutchie,

Bastien

Sent from my iPod

On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:47, Anton Heuschen <antonfh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks Thijs.

My Father is from the Netherlands, but I wont try it all in Dutch myself...

Ok slowly but surely and with your advice I start making sense of this, I am still playing around with some tests and reading up. It should be real clear
and obvious once you get a working example I guess.

Thanks for your assistance and advice so far.

Regards


Now of to make myself a nice Hagelslag botterham to soothe my nerves ;-)

Anton

2009/3/11 Thijs Lensselink <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hoi Anton,

Great job on the Dutch part :) But please keep the thread on list.

You have set the server location when you create a SOAP client instance.
Take a look at : http://php.net/manual/en/soapclient.soapclient.php

So when instantiating the SOAP client object you pass as a second
parameter. An array with as minimal settings the location and uri.

I guess in your case it would be something like this:

$client = new SoapClient(null, array(
      'location' =>  "http://localhost/WebService/GetData.asmx";,
      'uri'      => "http://localhost/WebService/";)
);

And if your webservice provides a WSDL file you can replace the null
parameter for that one.

Anton Heuschen wrote:
Dag.

Dank U well.

Lol and thats where my Dutch is going to end...


Thank you for the info, just one question that had me confused also and
that is to do with this

the URL you actually are talking to with your SOAP client is
http://localhost/WebService/



Ive seen that in material on the net too ... but I wondered so how does
your SOAP request know where to connect to ? should I not have the
target server URL (or is this also pointing to the Web Services Servers WSDL not setup correctly and will my client only work if I run it from
the same PC? ) This is what confuses me so .


Regards

2009/3/10 Thijs Lensselink <php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:
php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>

   Anton Heuschen wrote:
I am confused with XML-RPC / SOAP and WSDL ...

If you have a server with a script/file like test.asmx and some web
services ...below example of service format :

SOAP 1.2

The following is a sample SOAP 1.2 request and response. The
placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.

-------------------------------------  SAMPLE OF Web Service from
the
server below :

SOAP 1.2

The following is a sample SOAP 1.2 request and response.  The
placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.




POST /webservice/GetData.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: www.theserver.com <http://www.theserver.com>
Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope";>
 <soap12:Body>
   <GetData xmlns="http://localhost/WebService/";>
     <Input>string</Input>
   </GetData>
 </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>



HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope";>
 <soap12:Body>
   <GetDataResponse xmlns="http://localhost/WebService/";>
     <Output>string</Output>
   </GetDataResponse>
 </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>



------------------------------------ END OF SAMPLE




I spend about most of my time looking at SOAP, XML-RPC and the PHP
SOAP extension, like from here:



http://tutorial.jcwcn.com/Web-Design/PHP/XML-and-PHP/2008-08-15/10160.html


Most of these talk about request to the server and a script with
.wsdl
extension ... but from the example SOAP 1.2 "framework" above
and the fact that the url to the web service is not a .wsdl file
but
in fact a .asmx file, how on earth to you

It doesn't have to be a .wsdl extension to offer that functionality.
The
WSDL output is nothing more then what the webservice has to offer. Requests are not send to the .wsdl but to the webservice endpoint.


1) post a request to the example above.
2) What do you use here now actually ? SOAP/XML-RPC/WSDL ? or is
this
something else ? Its extremely confusing since this does
not seem to fit in with any of the examples, material on the net.


The examples above show requests en responses in the SOAP format. You could target this webservice in multiple ways. But building a SOAP
   client would probably be the best option.

I basically need to call the service and pass "string" to the Input
parameter and get the response field.


Some examples using the PHP Soap class talk about setting the URI,
the
host and the NS and I don't know from the example SOAP 1.2 fields
provided where this should be taken from.


   the URL you actually are talking to with your SOAP client is
   http://localhost/WebService/


Some guidelines to good documentation/howto or tutorials and/or
some
examples and functions/class would be
appreciated immensely

   http://wso2.org/library/1060


Regards






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