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

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@gmail.com> 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@addmissions.nl>

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@addmissions.nl <mailto:

php@addmissions.nl>>

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