Consuming WS blues

Question

Hi Everyone,
I just got started on a site which needs to pull data via a
SOAP WS. Whilst I have a bit of experience with CF and conventional
datasources I have never used a WS before.
The WSDL is located here:
http://www.villarenters.com/VillarentersWebService/VillaSearch.asmx?WSDL
and I used the attached code to try and pull data.
I respectively got the following error messages :
Cannot generate stub objects for web service invocation.
Name:
http://www.villarenters.com/VillarentersWebService/VillaSearch.asmx/GetChildLocationsV2?Pa rentID=0&VRF=.
WSDL:
http://www.villarenters.com/VillarentersWebService/VillaSearch.asmx/GetChildLocationsV2?Pa rentID=0&VRF=.
WSDLException (at /ChildLocationV2): faultCode=INVALID_WSDL:
Expected element '{
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/}definitions'.:
It is recommended that you use a web browser to retrieve and
examine the requested WSDL document to ensure it is correct. If the
requested WSDL document cannot be retrieved or is dynamically
generated, it is likely that the target web service has programming
errors.
And
Web service operation GetChildLocationsV2 with parameters
{Parent_ID={0}} cannot be found.
So I thought that the WSDL file was malformed. However when I
paste this into my browser :
http://www.villarenters.com/VillarentersWebService/VillaSearch.asmx/GetChildLocationsV2?Pa rentID=0&VRF=
it returns the correct data so that same WSDL file is working
when called from their own website.
I am starting to think maybe an ASP.NET vs CF incompatibility
Do I need to use the arguments in both the url of the WS and
in the <CFInvokeArgument> tag? Or can I dispense with one of
them?
I would really be grateful for any help on this as I am well
and truly stuck :)
Thanks, Paul.

Answer 1

If you have Dreamweaver, you can use it to generate code for web-services.
Just open the "Components", select in drop-down menu "Web services" and enter the URL of service. Dreamweaver show to you available functions and generate code for their use.
Like this:
<cfinvoke
webservice="http://www.villarenters.com/VillarentersWebService/VillaSearch.asmx?WSDL"
method="villaSearch"
returnvariable="aVillaResults">
    <cfinvokeargument name="rag" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="strOwnerRefs" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="strPropRefs" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="strLocationRefs" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="intMaxPrice" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="intMinPrice" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="intSleeps" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="blnInstantBooking" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="intVillarentersIndex" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="intDiscountType" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="intBranding" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="intPage" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="intItemsPerPage" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="blnEnableAvailabilitySearch" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="strFromYYYYMMDD" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="strToYYYYMMDD" value="enter_value_here"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="intSortOrder" value="enter_value_here"/>
</cfinvoke>