CAM::SOAPClient - SOAP interaction tools
LICENSE
Copyright 2006 Clotho Advanced Media, Inc., <
[email protected]>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
ABOUT CLOTHO
"CAM" stands for Clotho Advanced Media Inc. (www.clotho.com) which
developed this module. Contact us at
[email protected].
INSTALLATION
Install via one of the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
or
perl Build.PL
perl Build
perl Build test
perl Build install
DESCRIPTION
This module simplifies interaction with SOAP web services. Mostly
it's an easy-to-use wrapper around SOAP::Lite, but it contains a
killer feature to simplify the programmer's life: the call() method.
The call() method lets your client specify exactly which data it wants
from the SOAP response, in the order it wishes to receive that data.
We find this to be substantially simpler than SOAP::Lite's data
returning helpers (like result() and paramsout()) which try to be
smart, but end up making life harder for many applications (in
particular, for applications that return tagged data in arbitrary
order, instead of simple positional values).
Example API (see t/server.t):
The getEmployeeData() service expects a request like:
<ssn>111-11-1111</ssn>
and provides a response like:
<name>John Smith</name>
<birthdate>1969-01-01</birthdate>
<phone>212-555-1212</phone>
CAM::SOAPClient style:
sub getPhoneNumber_CAM_SOAP {
my ($ssn, $uri, $proxy) = @_;
return CAM::SOAPClient
-> new($uri, $proxy)
-> call('getEmployeeData', 'phone', ssn => $ssn);
}
Equivalent SOAP::Lite style:
sub getPhoneNumber_SOAPLite {
my ($ssn, $uri, $proxy) = @_;
my $som = SOAP::Lite
-> uri($uri)
-> proxy($proxy)
-> call('getEmployeeData', SOAP::Data->name(ssn => $ssn));
if (ref $som) {
return $som->valueof('/Envelope/Body/[1]/phone');
} else {
return;
}
}
The simplistic server implementation is in t/lib/Example.pm
