NAME

W3C::SOAP - SOAP client generation from WSDL & XSD files

VERSION

This documentation refers to W3C::SOAP version 0.01.

SYNOPSIS

   # Dynamically created clients
   use W3C::SOAP qw/load_wsdl/;

   # load some wsdl file
   my $wsdl = load_wsdl("http://example.com/eg.wsdl");

   # call a method exported by the WSDL
   $wsdl->some_method( HASH | HASH_REF );

   # A real world example
   my $wsdl = load_wsdl('http://ws.cdyne.com/ip2geo/ip2geo.asmx?wsdl');
   my $res = $wsdl->resolve_ip( ip_address => '59.106.161.11', license_key => 0 );
   printf "lat: %.4f\n", $res->resolve_ipresult->latitude;

   # load some xsd file
   my $xsd = load_xsd("http://example.com/eg.xsd");

   # create a new object of of the XSD
   my $obj = $xsd->new( HASH | HASH_REF );

   # Statically created clients
   # on the command line build Client module (and included XSD modules)
   # see wsdl-parser --help for more details
   $ wsdl-parser -b ResolveIP ResolveIP 'http://ws.cdyne.com/ip2geo/ip2geo.asmx?wsdl'

   # back in perl

   # the default directory modules are created into
   use lib 'lib';
   # load the ResolveIP client module
   use ResolveIP;
   # Create a client object
   my $client = ResolveIP->new();
   # call the WS
   my $res = $client->resolve_ip( ip_address => '59.106.161.11', license_key => 0 );
   # show the results
   printf "lat: %.4f\n", $res->resolve_ipresult->latitude;

DESCRIPTION

A perly SOAP client library.

Gotchas

Java style camel case names are converted to the more legible Perl style underscore separated names for everything that doesn't end up being a Perl package or Moose type. Eg in the Synopsis the operation defined in the IP 2 GEO WSDL is defined as ResolveIP this is translated to the perly name resolve_ip.

Debugging

When something goes wrong there are two ways to see what XML is being sent and received.

1. The $W3C_SOAP_DEBUG_CLIENT environment variable will cause the all request and response HTTP bodies to be dumped to STDOUT. The length of the content is limited to 1024 by default but this can be changed with the $W3C_SOAP_DEBUG_LENGTH environment variable.

2. Supplying a log object. When a client is instantiated you can supply it a log object or after creation supply the log method with a log object, the only restriction is that it implements debug, info, warn, error and fatal methods. Log::Log4perl and Catalyst::Log are known working examples.

     eg
       my $client = ResolveIP->new(log => $log);
     or
       $client->log($log);

Both methods can be used together.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

load_wsdl ($wsdl_location)

Loads a WSDL file, parses is and generates dynamic Moose objects that represent the WSDL file and any XML Schema xsd content that it refers to.

See W3C::SOAP::WSDL::Parser for more details.

load_xsd ($xsd_location)

Loads an XML Schema (.xsd) file, parses is and generates dynamic Moose objects that representing that schema and any other included/imported XML Schema content that it refers to.

See W3C::SOAP::XSD::Parser for more details.

DIAGNOSTICS

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

$W3C_SOAP_DEBUG_CLIENT

If this environment variable is a true value it will turn on printing request and response HTTP messages bodies to STDOUT.

$W3C_SOAP_DEBUG_LENGTH

Alter the amount of data shown by $W3C_SOAP_DEBUG_CLIENT which defaults to 1024.

DEPENDENCIES

INCOMPATIBILITIES

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

There are no known bugs in this module. (Plenty of unknown bugs)

Currently the WSDL handling doesn't deal with more than one input or output on an operation or inputs/outputs that aren't specified by an XMLSchema. A;so operation fault objects aren't yet handled.

Please report problems to Ivan Wills (ivan.wills@gmail.com).

Patches are welcome.

ALSO SEE

wsdl-parser, W3C::SOAP::Client, XML::LibXML, Moose, MooseX::Types::XMLSchema

Inspired by SOAP::WSDL & SOAP::Lite

AUTHOR

Ivan Wills - (ivan.wills@gmail.com)

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2012 Ivan Wills (14 Mullion Close, Hornsby Heights, NSW 2077 Australia). All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

cpanm W3C::SOAP

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install W3C::SOAP