in reply to Why can't SOAP::Lite deserialize its own output?

SOAP is hard, good luck with that :)

Why can't SOAP::Lite deserialize its own output? Can someone please suggest how I might change the serializer or deserializer to resolve this issue.

I don't think you can blame SOAP::Lite here ... but I hate SOAP

If you do things the way SOAP::Lite wants you to, it seems to work

server output 

$ perl soap-lite-server.pl
Contact to SOAP server at http://127.0.0.1:10013/
OrderInquiry called
$VAR1 = [
          'physi'
        ];
$VAR1 = {
          'OrderInquiry' => {
                            'vorname' => 'physi'
                          }
        };
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 '_faultstring' => 'Died in server method',
                 '_faultactor' => 'http://www.soaplite.com/custom',
                 '_faultcode' => 'Server.Custom',
                 '_faultdetail' => bless( {
                                            'code' => 1
                                          }, 'BadError' )
               }, 'SOAP::Fault' );
Terminating on signal SIGINT(2)

$

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client output (you can see the $fault is parsed without die-ing) 

POST http://localhost:10013/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Accept: application/soap
User-Agent: SOAP::Lite/Perl/1.11
Content-Length: 456
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "/Demo#OrderInquiry"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<soap:Envelope soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enc
+oding/"
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <soap:Body>
    <OrderInquiry xmlns="/Demo">
      <vorname xsi:type="xsd:string">physi</vorname>
    </OrderInquiry>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 07:57:13 GMT
Server: libwww-perl-daemon/6.01
Content-Length: 497
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Client-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 07:57:13 GMT
Client-Peer: 127.0.0.1:10013
Client-Response-Num: 1
SOAPServer: SOAP::Lite/Perl/1.11

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<soap:Envelope soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enc
+oding/"
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <soap:Body>
    <OrderInquiryResponse xmlns="/Demo">
      <s-gensym3 xsi:type="xsd:string">OrderInquiry order Created</s-g
+ensym3>
    </OrderInquiryResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

POST http://localhost:10013/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Accept: application/soap
User-Agent: SOAP::Lite/Perl/1.11
Content-Length: 460
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "/Demo#die_with_fault"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<soap:Envelope soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enc
+oding/"
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <soap:Body>
    <die_with_fault xmlns="/Demo">
      <vorname xsi:type="xsd:string">physi</vorname>
    </die_with_fault>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 07:57:13 GMT
Server: libwww-perl-daemon/6.01
Content-Length: 687
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Client-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 07:57:13 GMT
Client-Peer: 127.0.0.1:10013
Client-Response-Num: 1
SOAPServer: SOAP::Lite/Perl/1.11

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<soap:Envelope soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enc
+oding/"
    xmlns:namesp1="http://namespaces.soaplite.com/perl"
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <soap:Body>
    <soap:Fault>
      <faultcode>soap:Server.Custom</faultcode>
      <faultstring>Died in server method</faultstring>
      <faultactor>http://www.soaplite.com/custom</faultactor>
      <detail>
        <BadError xsi:type="namesp1:BadError">
          <code xsi:type="xsd:int">1</code>
        </BadError>
      </detail>
    </soap:Fault>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

faultcode            = soap:Server.Custom
faultstring          = Died in server method
faultdetail          = HASH(0x17beb14)
faultactor           = http://www.soaplite.com/custom

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soap-lite-server.pl 

#!/usr/bin/perl --
##
## 2014-07-03-00:50:25
##
##
## perltidy -olq  -csc -csci=10 -cscl="sub : BEGIN END if " -otr -opr 
+-ce -nibc -i=4 -pt=0   "-nsak=*"
#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;

Main( @ARGV );
exit( 0 );

sub Main {

    use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;
    my $daemon = SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon->new(
        LocalAddr => 'localhost',
        LocalPort => 10013,
        Reuse     => 1
    )->dispatch_to( 'Demo' );

    print "Contact to SOAP server at ", $daemon->url, "\n";
    $daemon->handle;
} ## end sub Main

BEGIN {

    package Demo;
    use Data::Dumper;
    use vars qw(@ISA);
    @ISA = qw(SOAP::Server::Parameters);

    sub OrderInquiry {
        print "OrderInquiry called\n";

        my $self     = shift;
        my $envelope = pop;
        print Dumper( \@_ );
        print Dumper( $envelope->valueof( '/Envelope/Body' ) );

        return "OrderInquiry order Created";
    } ## end sub OrderInquiry

    sub die_with_fault {
        my $fault =
          SOAP::Fault->faultcode( 'Server.Custom' )    # will be quali
+fied
          ->faultstring( 'Died in server method' )
          ->faultdetail( bless { code => 1 } => 'BadError' )
          ->faultactor( 'http://www.soaplite.com/custom' );
        print Dumper( $fault );
        die $fault;
    } ## end sub die_with_fault
    1;
} ## end BEGIN
__END__

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soap-lite-client.pl 

#!/usr/bin/perl --
##
## 2014-07-03-00:50:25
##
##
## perltidy -olq  -csc -csci=10 -cscl="sub : BEGIN END if " -otr -opr 
+-ce -nibc -i=4 -pt=0   "-nsak=*"
#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use SOAP::Lite;

Main( @ARGV );
exit( 0 );

sub Main {
    my $soap = SOAP::Lite->uri( '/Demo' )->proxy( 'http://localhost:10
+013/' );
    $soap->transport->add_handler( "request_send",  \&pp_dump );
    $soap->transport->add_handler( "response_done", \&pp_dump );

    $soap->OrderInquiry( SOAP::Data->name( vorname => 'physi' ) );

    my $som = $soap->die_with_fault( SOAP::Data->name( vorname => 'phy
+si' ) );
    for my $method ( qw/  faultcode faultstring faultdetail faultactor
+ / ) {
        printf "%-20s = %s\n", $method, $som->$method;
    }
} ## end sub Main

sub pp_twig {
    use XML::Twig;
    open my( $fh ), '>', \my $str;
    no warnings 'newline';

#~     XML::Twig->new(qw! pretty_print record !)->xparse(@_)->print( $
+fh );
    XML::Twig->new( qw! pretty_print record ! )->parse( @_ )->print( $
+fh );
    $str =~ s/ xmlns:/\n    xmlns:/g;
    return $str;
} ## end sub pp_twig

sub pp_dump {
    my $content = $_[0]->content( '' );
    $_[0]->content( pp_twig( $content ) );
    print $_[0]->as_string, "\n";
    return;
} ## end sub pp_dump

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Good luck with that :)

Here is my copy/paste of my soap tips (I hate soap), SOAP::Lite is too much work, SOAP::Simple is less work (but its simple, when stuck go to XML::Compile::SOAP, more verbose, but you want verbose with SOAP ) ... its built on XML::Compile::SOAP/http://perl.overmeer.net/xml-compile/#doc , see my treasure trove of soap examples and lost knowledge,$soap->transport->add_handler("request_send", \&pp_dump );, http://cookbook.soaplite.com/, SOAP endpoint , Re^3: SOAP::Lite login setup, Re: I do not understand how to write a SOAP server., An XML Overview Towards Understanding SOAP, Re^3: SOAP::Lite and custom envelopes, The XML FIles: Understanding XML Namespaces, How to Call a .NET-based Web Service Using the SOAP::Lite Perl Library (2002 )

Good luck with that :)

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