SOAP Web Service Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.13, by Herong Yang
NumberToWords_localhost.pl - Testing on Local Host
This section provides a tutorial example on how to generate the NumberToWords request without using the real Web service server - Letting the connection fail with a localhost proxy URL.
Based on previous experience, I know that I need to run many tests while developing the SOAP 1.2 client program to call NumberToWords at dataaccess.com.
Instead of wasting resources at dataaccess.com, I will start my client program with a faked localhost end point to just generate the request message. So here is my first version, NumberToWords_localhost.pl:
#- NumberToWords_localhost.pl #- Copyright (c) 2009 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved. # use SOAP::Lite +trace; my $client = SOAP::Lite->new() ->soapversion('1.2') ->readable(true) ->proxy('http://localhost/NumberConversion.wso'); my $som = $client->call('NumberToWords', 102);
When executing, it will give this output:
herong> NumberToWords_localhost.pl ... SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP::Request=HASH(0x3034700) SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST http://localhost/NumberConversion.wso HTTP/1.1 Accept: text/xml Accept: multipart/* Accept: application/soap Content-Length: 474 Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 SOAPAction: "#NumberToWords" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Envelope soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Body> <NumberToWords> <c-gensym3 xsi:type="xsd:int">102</c-gensym3> </NumberToWords> </Body> </Envelope> SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP::Response=HASH(0x2c8efb8) SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found ...
Not too bad. I was able to see the entire request without using a real Web service server. But:
See next tutorials on how to fix these issues.
Table of Contents
Introduction to SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
SOAP Message Transmission and Processing
SOAP MEP (Message Exchange Patterns)
PHP SOAP Extension Client Programs
PHP SOAP Extension Server Programs
PHP SOAP Web Service Example - getTemp
Perl SOAP::Lite - SOAP Server-Client Communication Module
Perl Socket Test Program for HTTP and SOAP
Perl SOAP::Lite for NumberToWords SOAP 1.1 Web Service
►Perl SOAP::Lite for SOAP 1.2 Web Services
Message Styles Supported in SOAP::Lite
Methods on SOAP::Lite Client Object
Testing SOAP::Lite Client Objects
Differences between SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2
►NumberToWords_localhost.pl - Testing on Local Host
soapversion('1.2') and envprefix('soap12') Must Used Together
default_ns() - Setting Namespace for Body Elements
SOAP::Data - Utility Class to Generate XML Elements
SOAPAction - Not Needed, But No Way to Remove It
NumberToWords_SOAP_1_2.pl - SOAP::Lite for SOAP 1.2 Web Service
Java Socket and HttpURLConnection for SOAP
SAAJ - SOAP with Attachments API for Java
SoapUI - SOAP Web Service Testing Tool
WS-Security - SOAP Message Security Extension
WS-Security X.509 Certificate Token
Perl SOAP::Lite for GetSpeech SOAP 1.1 Web Service
Perl SOAP::Lite 0.710 for SOAP 1.2 Web Services
Perl SOAP::Lite 0.710 for WSDL