Perl clients

Question

I am trying to access our web services via a Perl client. I am using the SOAPLite
package with Active Perl. There is no support for complex types in the WSDL handling
in the SOAPLite package.
Now there is a non-WSDL interface. It takes 2 arguments a URI and a proxy. I do
not know what the proxy is for BEA web services
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Actually, when running WL7.0 this didn't quite work for me when running
towards my own dummy WebService. I needed to specify the name of the
parameter as well:
my $r = $s->getTemp(SOAP::Data->name('string')->type(string =>
$zipCode))->result;
(if the name of the parameter for the call in the WSDL is called 'string',
which is the case when autogenerating a WebService with ant - does anyone
know of a way to specity the names of the message parts?).
/Mattias Arthursson
Compost Marketing
"Michael Wooten" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
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Hi Alan,
Here's a commented example of what I think you are looking for:
### START OF SOAP::Lite client FOR WWS ###
#!perl -w
use SOAP::Lite;
# Value passed to uri() method, is the value assigned
# to the namespace attribute of the <soap:body> element,
# in the WSDL document.
# Value passed to proxy() method, is the value assigned
# to the location attribute of the <soap:address> element,
# in the WSDL document. This value also cooresponds with the
# <servlet-mapping> element, in web.xml, for the
# servlet that receives SOAP request. For a RPC-style
# WebLogic Web Service, this is the StatelessBeanAdapter.
# Here's the <servlet-mapping> element:
# <servlet-mapping>
# <servlet-name>statelessSession.WeatherHome</servlet-name>
# <url-pattern>/weatheruri</url-pattern>
# </servlet-mapping>
my $s = SOAP::Lite
-> uri('urn:Weather')
-> proxy('http://localhost:7001/weather/weatheruri');
my $zipCode = '90210';
my $r = $s->getTemp(SOAP::Data->type(string => $zipCode))->result;
print "Temperature for $zipCode is $r\n";
### END OF SOAP::Lite client FOR WWS ###
This example uses the weatherEJB example from the WLS 6.1 install, but Ithink
you can figure out from the comments how to use map things to yourparticuar WebLogic
Web Service ;-)
Regards,
Mike Wooten
"Alan Smith" <[email protected]> wrote:
I am trying to access our web services via a Perl client. I am using
the SOAPLite
package with Active Perl. There is no support for complex types in the
WSDL handling
in the SOAPLite package.
Now there is a non-WSDL interface. It takes 2 arguments a URI and a
proxy.
I do
not know what the proxy is for BEA web services
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks in advance.