I would suggest you consider something along the lines of a proxy object. You tie yourself to the proxy object and write the appropriate access methods to initiate the SOAP requests.

The fetch and store commands would be the most likely candidiates for the actual SOAP requests. You would then provide additional logic for doing the useful stuff (like each(), keys() etc) which would operate on the data locally once it had been fetched.

Suggest you look at the man page for tie or get the Advanced Perl Programming book. Either way - it should be a straightforward task. I would recommend that you build a comms object to actually initiate the SOAP comms and either inherit from it or use some form of aggregate relationship.

You should have no problem doing either with tie.

Hope that helps

In reply to Re: Tying variables to remote objects by simon.proctor
in thread Tying variables to remote objects by Anonymous Monk

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