SoapTcpClient.pl - SOAP Client Example with TCP Protocol

This section provides a tutorial example on how to use the SOAP::Lite module to create a SOAP client program, SoapTcpClient.pl, with the TCP protocol.

SOAP:Lite represents the SOAP client API that allows you to send a Perl function call as a SOAP request to the specified SOAP server, and receive the result of the call as a SOAP response from the server. Main functions of SOAP::Lite are:

new() - Constructs a new SOAP::Lite object, and returns it.

uri('uri') - Defines the URI (Universal Resource Identifier) of the target module to be called, and returns the same object.

proxy('url') - Defines the URL (Universal Resource Locator) of the SOAP server, and returns the same object.

'method'() - Allows to call the method from the target module on the SOAP server, and returns a new SOAP::SOM object representing the outcome of the call.

$som->result - A property of a SOAP::SOM object representing the returning scalar value of the call.

Here is a sample program to show you how to use SOAP::LITE module to request a function call to the SOAP server I created in the previous section.

#- SoapTcpClient.pl
#- Copyright (c) 2005 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.

   use SOAP::Lite;
   # use SOAP::Lite +trace;
   my $client = SOAP::Lite->new();
   $client->uri('urn:Hello');
   $client->proxy('tcp://localhost:8001');
   my $som = $client->hello("Herong");
   my $output = $som->result;
   print $output . "\n";

Run SoapTcpClient.pl in another command window, while the SoapTcpServer.pl is running in the first window:

herong> perl SoapTcpClient.pl

Hello Herong

This is amazing. You can create a simple SOAP server and client in less than 20 lines of source code!

Note that the proxy URL must have "tcp" as the protocol name, since the SOAP server is running with TCP as the transportation protocol.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction to Web Service

 Introduction to SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)

 SOAP Message Structure

 SOAP Message Transmission and Processing

 SOAP Data Model

 SOAP Encoding

 SOAP RPC Presentation

 SOAP Properties Model

 SOAP MEP (Message Exchange Patterns)

 SOAP HTTP Binding

 SOAP PHP Implementations

 PHP SOAP Extension Client Programs

 PHP SOAP Extension Server Programs

 PHP SOAP Web Service Example - getTemp

 SOAP Perl Implementations

Perl SOAP::Lite - SOAP Server-Client Communication Module

 SOAP Communication Model

 What Is SOAP::Lite

 SOAP::Transport::TCP::Server - SOAP Server with TCP Protocol

SoapTcpClient.pl - SOAP Client Example with TCP Protocol

 SOAP::Lite Tracing Functions

 SOAP::Transport::HTTP - SOAP Server with HTTP Protocol

 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

 Perl SOAP::Lite for WSDL

 Python SOAP Client: Zeep

 SOAP Java Implementations

 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

 Web Services and SOAP Terminology

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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