Re: Query with pear SOAP and SOAP_Fault

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:47:41 +0100, Chris Covell <chris.covell@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello guys, > > I have a query with pear soap and SOAP_Fault, I wonder if anyone has > an answer... > > As a bit of background, I am using pear SOAP 0.8RC3 beta under php-4.3.4-1.1. > > I have a soap server process that works fine ! I have got a client > that connects to it fine also. I have adopted the technique of using > the dispatch_map so that a wsdl is created automagically: > > $this->__dispatch_map['request'] = > array( 'in' => array('input' => 'string'), > 'out' => array('return string' => > 'string'), > ); > > As you can see I have defined in and out parameters as strings. > > Now, I have a customer connecting to this server using a Java client. > He has built his client based on my wsdl. He wants me to return errors > as soap faults. I am doing it like this: > > $fault = new SOAP_Fault('Does not exist', '99'); > return $fault->message(); You may as well not be creating that SOAP_Fault. All you're doing is extracting your message as a string and returning that. This code is equivalent: return 'Does not exist'; You should be doing: return new SOAP_Fault('Does not exist', '99'); AFAIK, you don't have to declare this in your WSDL, it's assumed that any SOAP call that fails will return a SOAP_Fault. > > The trouble is that he is seeing the SOAP fault data, but it is > wrapped up in a string, this is what he describes: > > "In case of error I expect your service to return something like this: > > <http> > <soap:fault/> > </http> > > But actually your service is returning something like this: > > <http> > <soap:return> > &lt;soap:fault/gt&; > </soap:return> > </http> > > The SOAP Fault is actually "masked" inside a normal result. In my > opinion you have do make a little change in your WSDL to define the > possible returned faults." > > So my question is: > > How do I return a soap fault in the way he describes ? Can I define a > "fault" out in my dispatch map -> wsdl ? > > Hopefully you can help me ! > > Chris... > -- DB_DataObject_FormBuilder - The database at your fingertips http://pear.php.net/package/DB_DataObject_FormBuilder paperCrane --Justin Patrin--