Re: [SOAP] accessing the results returned from webservice

Mansour Al Akeel wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 03:01:11PM +0000, Richard Quadling wrote:
>> 2009/1/8 Christian Wenz <[email protected]>:
>>>> 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 :-) However since you are using PHP, you may
>>> want to use SimpleXML to parse the XML.
>>>
>>> --Christian
>> https isn't a registered stream for me it seems.
>>
>> What output do you get for ...
>>
>> var_dump($result);
> 
> this prints out the whole response as one string without the tags
> brakets. So what ever the text of the all the tags is, it get appended
> and printed out.
> 
>> A soap client SHOULD return a stdClass object, so
>>
>> echo $result->messageText;
> This doesn't print anything. It's just empty.
> Same thing with:
> 
> var_dump($result->messageText) ;
> 
> it shows NULL
> 
> Another thing (not related) is, I am passing the parameters as a nested array to the
> web method, however, I keep on getting invalid xml format. The test
> script in this email is passing a string and getting invalid merchant
> id. Hum, I will have to look further into this. I was waiting to be able
> to read the values from the response first. 
> 
>> should work.
> 
> No, this is not working at all. 
> 

if I may be so bold; I (along with thousands of others) use wso2; it may 
be worth considering (additionally you could knock a client up in 2 
minutes using the provided wsdl2php scripts)