Hello Monks,

I'm having some issues both in using and understanding the nuances of SOAP::Lite. I'm trying to connect to our web service which is using WSDL, get a valid token, and return that token.

I get the following error when I run the script.

not well-formed (invalid token) at line 1, column 198, byte 198 at /usr/lib/perl5/XML/Parser.pm line 187

Here's the script below (with some elments X'd out). 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use SOAP::Lite +trace => 'debug';
use strict;
use warnings;

my $username = 'xxxxxx';
my $password = 'xxxxxx';

my $service = SOAP::Lite
   -> uri('http://xx-xx.xxxxxx.com/xxxws/xxxws?WSDL')
   -> proxy('http://ws.xxxxxx.com:80/xxxws')
;

my $data = SOAP::Data
    ->name("GetToken" => 
    \SOAP::Data->value(
    SOAP::Data->name("username" =>'$username'),
    SOAP::Data->name("password" => '$password')
    )
);

my $result = $service->call(
    SOAP::Data
    ->name('getToken')
    => $data
);

print $result;

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The output is below (I did not paste the HTML dump it gives of the elements (IE getToken, getEntitlements, ect).

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST
http://ws.xxxxxxx.com:80/xxxws HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Accept: application/soap
Content-Length: 513
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "#getToken"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><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" soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><getToken><GetToken><username xsi:type="xsd:string">$username</username><password xsi:type="xsd:string">$password</password></GetToken></getToken></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache="set-cookie"
Cache-Control: no-cache="set-cookie"
Connection: Close
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:26:08 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Length: 2167
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Client-Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2015 19:26:08 GMT
Client-Peer: 54.85.177.107:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
Link: </xxxws/?stylesheet=1>; rel="stylesheet";
type="text/css"
Set-Cookie: AWSELB=xxxxxx;PATH=/;MAX-AGE=30
Set-Cookie: AWSELB=xxxxxx;PATH=/;MAX-AGE=30
Title: CXF - Service list


I think I need to use the namespace somewhere but not sure "where" that is. I've tried a few attempts (well, more then a few) but no luck.

I see from our WSDL page the targetNameSpace is as follows: java:com.xx.xxxws.parameters

I'll keep trying but hoping that you might bestow upon me some small measure of Perl's satori. Thank you.

Kevin M

In reply to SOAP::Lite and getting error "not well-formed (invalid token)" by kdmurphy001

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