Re: [SOAP] soap attachment, arrays with attributes and a restrictive java soap server

Lukas Kahwe Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to talk to a java soap service that is ultra restrictive.
> For example it does not support SOAP-ENC, but only soapenc (which is not
> something the standard actually allows to restrict AFAIK).
>
> At any rate I also need to send soap attachments to the service. It does
> not seem like ext/soap supports this atm and I would rather like to
> spare me the fiddeling with MIME encoding. Also in a C extension I
> cannot easily hack and deploy modifications to match this crazy Java 
> server.
>
> So I decided to go with PEAR::SOAP. I hacked around several issues, but
> I am stuck at the last point. I need to add 2 arrays with attributes
> into my SOAP message.
>
> In this example I am calling the SOAP action "SubmitRequest". As you can
> see the its literal encoding. Using the <content> tag I can have
> multiple files attached. Obviously the entire message needs to be a
> multipart MIME message. I also need to be able to include multiple
> <ding> tags in which I need to be able to set attributes (ideally
> different attributes per tag).
>
>  <SubmitRequest>
>       <content filename="image1.gif"
> href="cid:1746ED6DDE448400271DA805A3580400"/>
>       <content filename="smil1.smil"
> href="cid:22A00E66CC0BF400408F3B97DBE9E400"/>
>       <content filename="text1.txt"
> href="cid:66CD82060A47A8003454807125ED4400"/>
>       <ding field="bar">123</ding>
>       <ding field="bar">456</ding>
>  </SubmitRequest>
>
> Without the need for MIME encoding, I would probably have gone to simply
> keeping a template with the XML and not bothering with any SOAP toolkit.
> But I am sort of scared to spend a lot of time to get MIME encoding
> working myself in that approach.
>
> Can anyone give me some hints how to do this with PEAR::SOAP (or any
> other toolkit/approach)? RTFM pointers welcome :)
>
> regards,
> Lukas
>
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