Re: Libraries that make SOAP simpler

Yeah, it's just another RPC lib, but one that has garnered pretty wide
acceptance.  In Python there's SOAPpy (works great), in PHP there's the
built in SOAP stuff and *NuSOAP (http://nusoap.sourceforge.net/),
http://search.cpan.org/~kbrown/SOAP-0.28/lib/SOAP.pm* for perl, and several
including http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r for Ruby.  A quick google search for
"<insert language> soap library" should get you a lot of options.

Matthew Bowie
Programmer/IT Consultant
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Kelly Jones <[email protected]>wrote:

> Here's a SOAP request example
> (http://www.w3schools.com/soap/soap_example.asp) for a stock's current
> price:
>
> == CUT HERE ==
>
> POST /InStock HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.example.org
> Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8
> Content-Length: nnn
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <soap:Envelope
> xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope"
> soap:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-encoding">
>
> <soap:Body xmlns:m="http://www.example.org/stock">
> <m:GetStockPrice>
> <m:StockName>IBM</m:StockName>
> </m:GetStockPrice>
> </soap:Body>
> </soap:Envelope>
>
> == CUT HERE ==
>
> The return packet is equally verbose/complex.
>
> Is there a Ruby/Perl/PHP library that turns the above into:
>
> $res = object("http://www.example.org/stock/InStock").GetStockPrice("IBM")
>
> and returns the result in to $res?
>
> For all its fanciness, SOAP just seems like a way to call methods on
> objects on the web. Is there a library/interface that lets me use it
> like that?
>
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