Greetings,

I'm having issues properly passing input parameters to a web service method. The method is properly defined in the wsdl file, but I'm getting the infamous "c-gensym" element names instead of the proper element names as defined.

The fact that part of the error message is "The name of the element should be one of these[application,xmlReq]" tells me that the wsdl file is being processed properly (yes/no?), I just cannot pass the parameters to the method properly, ie: I need this:

    <c-gensym3 xsi:type="xsd:string...
    <c-gensym5 xsi:type="xsd:string...
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to look like this:

    <application     xsi:type="xsd:string...
    <xmlReq     xsi:type="xsd:string...
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More detail:

Running Data::Dumper on the $soap object shows that "sendxml" method is defined:

--much deleted --
# -- generated from file:cdxservices.wsdl
my %methods = (
\'sendxml\' => {
    endpoint => \'http://172.20.14.52:14283/cdxservices/ws\',
    soapaction => \'\',
    namespace => \'http://www.bigcompany.com/\',
    parameters => [
      SOAP::Data->new(name => \'application\', type => \'partns:string
+\', attr => {}),
      SOAP::Data->new(name => \'xmlReq\', type => \'partns:string\', a
+ttr => {}),
    ], # end parameters
  }, # end sendxml
); # end my %methods
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My code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;


use Data::Dumper;
use SOAP::Lite +trace => qw(debug);
my $soap = SOAP::Lite-> new(
    proxy => [
        'http://172.20.14.52:14283/cdxservices/ws',
        credentials => [
            '172.20.14.52:14283',
            'default',
            'cdxservicesusr',
            'cdxservicesusr_qa'
        ]
    ],
    service => 'file:cdxservices.wsdl',
    readable => 1,
);

my $result = $soap->sendxml( "CLAWS", "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?><transac
+tion><apiname size=\"40\">LockAcct</apiname><comcorp>7801</comcorp><h
+ouse>158301</house><opr size=\"5\">KPE</opr></transaction>" );
    
print "$result\n";
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is generating the following request:

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST http://172.20.14.52:
+14283/cdxservices/ws HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Accept: application/soap
Content-Length: 758
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "#sendxml"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope 
    soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
    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>
    <sendxml>
      <c-gensym3 xsi:type="xsd:string">CLAWS</c-gensym3>

      <c-gensym5 xsi:type="xsd:string">&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;&lt;
+transaction&gt;&lt;apiname size="40"&gt;LockAcct&lt;/apiname&gt;&lt;c
+omcorp&gt;7801&lt;/comcorp&gt;&lt;house&gt;158301&lt;/house&gt;&lt;op
+r size="5"&gt;KPE&lt;/opr&gt;&lt;/transaction&gt;</c-gensym5>
    </sendxml>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
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which, not surprisingly, generates the following fault:

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Ser
+ver Error
Cache-Control: no-cache="set-cookie"
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 19:21:40 GMT
Content-Length: 3610
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Client-Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 19:21:40 GMT
Client-Peer: 172.20.14.52:14283
Client-Response-Num: 1
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=pjHjTvQG9LvtKrPpqgRhJP16xykYhGXGf3DGxgsQv5tQL1y
+M2GT1!1881305342; path=/
X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.4 JSP/2.0

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><env:Envelope x
+mlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http:
+//www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.x
+mlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchem
+a"><env:Header></env:Header><env:Body><env:Fault><faultcode>env:Serve
+r</faultcode>
<faultstring>Exception during processing: javax.xml.soap.SOAPException
+: Found SOAPElement [<c-gensym3><transaction><apiname size="40">LockA
+cct</apiname><comcorp>7801</comcorp><house>158301</house><opr size="5
+">KPE</opr></transaction></c-gensym3>].
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But was not able to find a Part that is registered with this Message which corresponds to this SOAPElement. The name of the element should be one of these[application,xmlReq]

(see Fault Detail for stacktrace)</faultstring>

</env:Fault></env:Body></env:Envelope>
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A transaction that works ( captured via a web interface to the service ) shows a working request:

<!--REQUEST.................-->
<env:Envelope  xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
 <env:Header>
 </env:Header>
 <env:Body   env:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encodi
+ng/">
  <m:sendxml    xmlns:m="http://www.bigcompany.com/">
   <application     xsi:type="xsd:string">CLAWS</application>
   <xmlReq     xsi:type="xsd:string"><?xml version="1.0"?><transaction
+><apiname size="40">LockAcct</apiname><comcorp>7801</comcorp><house>1
+58301</house><opr size="5">KPE</opr></transaction>lsx</xmlReq>
  </m:sendxml>
 </env:Body>
</env:Envelope>
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Any thoughts or pointers would be most appreciated. The client is running on a Windows Server 2008 R2 box with ActivePerl, so I am pretty much committed to using SOAP::Lite - I can't find SOAP::Simple in the PPM repositories...

As always, thanks very much for your help...
Scott