Cllient/Server SOAP library written in C

Ferhat Ayaz <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Feb 2004 03:35:03 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.soap.general
Message-ID <LISTSERV%[email protected]>
Hi folks,
try the SOAP library written in C. With csoap you can also implement a SOAP
server in C. This library depends on libxml2.

Homepage: http://csoap.sourceforge.net


Example client using CSOAP
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static const char *url =
 "http://csoap.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/csoapserver";
static const char *urn = "urn:examples";
static const char *method = "sayHello";

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
 SoapEnv *env, *res;
 env = soap_env_new_with_method(urn, method);

  soap_env_add_item(env, "xsd:string",
 "name", "Jonny B. Good");
  res = soap_client_invoke(env, url , "");

  soap_xml_doc_print(res->root->doc);

  soap_env_free(res);
  soap_env_free(env);

return 0;
}


Example server using CSOAP
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/**
 FUNCTION: say_hello()
 DESCRIPTION: The SOAP Server service function.
 URN: urn:examples
 METHOD: sayHello
*/
SoapEnv* say_hello(SoapEnv *request)
{

 SoapEnv *env;
 xmlNodePtr method, node;
 char *name;

 env = soap_env_new_with_response(request);

 method = soap_env_get_method(request);
 node = soap_xml_get_children(method);

 while (node) {

   name = (char*)xmlNodeListGetString(node->doc,
  node->xmlChildrenNode, 1);
   if (!name) continue;

   soap_env_add_itemf(env,"xsd:string", "echo", "Hello '%s'", name);

   xmlFree((xmlChar*)name);

   node = soap_xml_get_next(node);
 }

 return env;
}

/**
 FUNCTION: main()
 DESCRIPTION: Register and run soap server
*/
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

 SoapRouter *router;

  if (!soap_server_init_args(argc, argv)) {
   return 0;
 }

  router = soap_router_new();

  soap_router_register_service(router, say_hello, "sayHello",
    "urn: examples");
  soap_server_register_router(router, "/csoapserver");

  soap_server_run();

  soap_router_free(router);
  soap_server_destroy();

 return 0;
}