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in thread Accessing Attributes in Web Servie message - Server Side

Here is my SOAP server:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;
use lib '/var/www/soap';
use vbsservice;

my $server = SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
      ->dispatch_to('sendMsg2ABC')
      ->handle;
1;

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Here is the vbsservice module:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

package vbsservice;
use Switch;
use warnings;
use Exporter;
our @ISA = (Exporter);
our @EXPORT = qw(sendMsg2ABC);

sub sendMsg2ABC {

        my($class,$data)=@_;

...

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$data is a hash ref that I've parsed all sorts of ways but I'm never able to get to the attributes of the incoming message. I can easily parse the key/values from any tag/element entries of the message but not the attributes. One thing I'm trying now is the dataof method but I haven't been able to get that to work. As a note, I cannot change the way the message is coming in. That's out of my control. Thank you again for any help.

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Re^3: Accessing Attributes in Web Servie message - Server Side
by poj (Abbot) on Feb 18, 2016 at 16:34 UTC

    What is the structure of $data if you use Dumper

    use Data::Dumper;

sub sendMsg2ABC {

        my($class,$data)=@_;
        print Dumper $data;

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      Thank you. Even Dumper doesn't show me the attributes. I have Wireshark monitoring the incoming messages and there I do see the entire message coming in with the attributes. Here is the Dumper result:

      $VAR1 = {
          'Request_Id' => '999999',
          'Section' => [
                       {
                         'Entity' => [
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     ''
                                   ]
                       },
                       {
                         'Entity' => [
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     ''
                                   ]
                       },
                       {
                         'Entity' => [
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     '',
                                     ''
                                   ]
                       }
                     ],
          'RequestType' => 'CHANGE',
          'RequestStatus' => 'PENDING',
          'VtacContactPhone' => '555-555-5555',
          'Action' => 'APPROVE',
          'VtacContactName' => 'CYNTHIA',
          'NegotiatorPhone' => '555-555-5555',
          'IssuedDate' => '12/10/2015 09:29:02 AM',
          'NegotiatorName' => 'MICHELLE'
        };

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        If you want to parse the XML then XML::Twig is one option

        #!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use XML::Twig;
use Data::Dumper;

my $xml = do{local $/;<DATA>};

my %data=();
my $t = XML::Twig->new( 
  twig_handlers=> {
    Section => \&section
  },       
);
$t->parse($xml);
print Dumper \%data;

sub section {
  my ($t,$e) = @_;
  my $type = $e->att('type');
  for ($e->children('Entity')){
    push @{$data{$type}},$_->atts;
  }
};

__DATA__

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      Try looking at HTML::Tree

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