Re: [SOAP] accessing the results returned from webservice

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 02:13:15PM +0100, Christian Wenz wrote:
> > Do you have
> > > a public URL of the .NET web service?
> > 
> > https://beanstream.com/soap/ProcessTransaction.wsdl
> > 
> 
> This test script
> 
>   <?php
>     $soap = new
> SoapClient('https://beanstream.com/soap/ProcessTransaction.wsdl');
>     $result = $soap->TransactionProcess('<a />');
>     echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars(print_r($result, 1)));
>   ?>
> 
> returns:
> 
> <response><trnId></trnId><trnApproved>0</trnApproved><messageId>0</messageId
> ><messageText>Invalid merchant id (merchant_id =
> 0)</messageText><trnAuthCode></trnAuthCode></response>
> 
> According to the WSDL, the return data type is a simple string. So the web
> service is returning XML, no matter which technology you use. So it's
> neither PHP's not .NET's fault :-) 

Ok I got it. It's my fault for not checking what is the return type
and/or the implementation should not return all these values as string
for easier access. 

Now, regardless of who's fault :-) , how where you able to tell that the
return type is simple or not ? I couldn't see any pointer to this.


> However since you are using PHP, you may
> want to use SimpleXML to parse the XML.
> 
> --Christian
> 
> 
> 
> 
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