snichols I'm working on a Tcl client to integrate to a web service. I have an example of how the SOAP envelope should look. It is using two complex data types (WebUser and Authentication). I'd prefer to use Tcl SOAP then have to code the XML using tDOM and HTTP, which I will do if necessary. Here's my Tcl code that generates a SOAP request envelope that's close to the working SOAP envelope, but not good enough for the web service (there are some extra XML attributes, etc that are needed):
package require SOAP
package require rpcvar
namespace import -force rpcvar::typedef
typedef {
Username DATA
Password DATA
Nonce DATA
Created DATA
RemoteUser DATA
RemoteClient DATA
RemoteAddress DATA
EnvironmentalData DATA
SessionID DATA
} authentication
typedef {
Authentication authentication
ApplicationType DATA
RequestID DATA
WebUserID DATA
WebUserName DATA
PlanID DATA
EmployerID DATA
MemberID DATA
EntityType MEMBER
EntityReferenceNumber DATA
Password DATA
EncryptionMethod PLAINTEXT
InputMethodEditor TELEPHONE
} webUser
SOAP::create Test -proxy "http://localhost/superSOAP/webcontrol.asmx" \
-action "http://www.atune.biz/web/services/WC/2006-01/isWebUserAuthenticated" \
-uri "http://www.atune.biz/web/services/WC/2006-01" \
-params {WebUser webUser}When the soap method, isWebUserAuthenticated, is called it generates this as the SOAP request :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP- ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns:isWebUserAuthenticated xmlns:ns="http://www.atune.biz/web/services/WC/2006-01">
<WebUser>
<Authentication>
<Username>IVRUSER</Username>
<Password>newPassword</Password>
<Nonce></Nonce>
<Created></Created>
<RemoteUser>TESTER</RemoteUser>
<RemoteClient>SomeCompany</RemoteClient>
<RemoteAddress>127.0.0.1</RemoteAddress>
<EnvironmentalData></EnvironmentalData>
<SessionID></SessionID>
</Authentication>
<ApplicationType>MOL</ApplicationType>
<RequestID></RequestID>
<WebUserID></WebUserID>
<WebUserName>11111</WebUserName>
<PlanID>RS</PlanID>
<EmployerID>-1</EmployerID>
<MemberID>-1</MemberID>
<EntityType>MEMBER</EntityType>
<EntityReferenceNumber>0</EntityReferenceNumber>
<Password>5555</Password>
<EncryptionMethod>PLAINTEXT</EncryptionMethod>
<InputMethodEditor>TELEPHONE</InputMethodEditor>
</WebUser>
</ns:isWebUserAuthenticated>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>Its very close, but I need the SOAP above envelope to look like this working version (both are very close):
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<isWebUserAuthenticated xmlns="http://www.atune.biz/web/services/WC/2006-01">
<WebUser>
<Authentication Enabled="1">
<Username>IVRUSER</Username>
<Password Type="PLAINTEXT" Token="*NONE*">newPassword</Password>
<Nonce></Nonce>
<Created>20060309T080101</Created>
<RemoteUser>TESTER</RemoteUser>
<RemoteClient>SomeCompany</RemoteClient>
<RemoteAddress>127.0.0.1</RemoteAddress>
<EnvironmentData></EnvironmentData>
<SessionID></SessionID>
</Authentication>
<ApplicationType>MOL</ApplicationType>
<RequestID></RequestID>
<WebUserID></WebUserID>
<WebUserName>157014233</WebUserName>
<PlanID>RS</PlanID>
<EmployerID>-1</EmployerID>
<MemberID>-1</MemberID>
<EntityType>MEMBER</EntityType>
<EntityReferenceNumber>0</EntityReferenceNumber>
<Password>5555</Password>
<EncryptionMethod>PLAINTEXT</EncryptionMethod>
<InputMethodEditor>TELEPHONE</InputMethodEditor>
</WebUser>
</isWebUserAuthenticated>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
Any ideas what I need to change in my TclSOAP command calls to make the SOAP envelope look like the latter XML above? Its currently generating the first XML. I notice a couple of things different: The latter has an Enabled="1" attribute and the password tag has some more attributes too, and its not using the /ns: namespace like the first. The latter envelop works and returns a result the first request returns errors. The other thing thats differnt is the second version is using simpler looking tags like soap:Evelope and soap:Body. So, how do I add the XML attributes needed by the webservice, etc?
Thanks in advance. snichols.
lexfiend: It doesn't directly answer your question, but since you already know exactly what the SOAP request must look like, you might want to consider the XML-template method I devised and documented in WSDL. I've found it to be more cost-effective (read: less time + hair-pulling) than trying to tweak my code to coax TclSOAP to satisfy different Web services (and possibly having to re-tweak it for newer releases of TclSOAP).
snichols Thanks. I saw your example in the WSDL page in the Wiki. It is a very quick fix, but I don't know if its the best way since you are not using an XML Tcl package to do your replacing. There's a potential for XML special characters in the values you are replacing in your XML template. I don't know how likely this is, and if it does fail what's the outcome: some user somewhere that has to use a different method for support. I may end up using what you did. Thanks again.