Re: [SOAP] accessing the results returned from webservice

Mansour Al Akeel wrote:

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:01:11PM +0000, Richard Quadling wrote:

2009/1/8 Christian Wenz <chw@hauser-wenz.de>:

Do you have

a public URL of the .NET web service?

https://beanstream.com/soap/ProcessTransaction.wsdl

This test script <?php $soap = new SoapClient('https://beanstream.com/soap/ProcessTransaction.wsdl'); $result = $soap->TransactionProcess('<a />'); echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars(print_r($result, 1))); ?> returns: <response><trnId></trnId><trnApproved>0</trnApproved><messageId>0</messageId

<messageText>Invalid merchant id (merchant_id =

0)</messageText><trnAuthCode></trnAuthCode></response> According to the WSDL, the return data type is a simple string. So the web service is returning XML, no matter which technology you use. So it's neither PHP's not .NET's fault :-) However since you are using PHP, you may want to use SimpleXML to parse the XML. --Christian

https isn't a registered stream for me it seems. What output do you get for ... var_dump($result);

this prints out the whole response as one string without the tags brakets. So what ever the text of the all the tags is, it get appended and printed out.

A soap client SHOULD return a stdClass object, so echo $result->messageText;

This doesn't print anything. It's just empty. Same thing with: var_dump($result->messageText) ; it shows NULL Another thing (not related) is, I am passing the parameters as a nested array to the web method, however, I keep on getting invalid xml format. The test script in this email is passing a string and getting invalid merchant id. Hum, I will have to look further into this. I was waiting to be able to read the values from the response first.

should work.

No, this is not working at all.

if I may be so bold; I (along with thousands of others) use wso2; it may be worth considering (additionally you could knock a client up in 2 minutes using the provided wsdl2php scripts)