Fellow monks,

I have recently came up to SOAP::Lite and made som experiment with it, but for a real use i will nett some kind of custom dispatch routine for SOAP::Lite.

What I'm trying to do:
I have a bunch of persistent objects stored in LDAP or RDBMs or wherever. I have a good perl home-brewn module for object persistence. Now I want to 'publish' this interface to other applications using SOAP.
My semantics works like this: 

my $object = $factory->instantiate('My::User', id => 'uid=semancik,ou=
+people,o=bgs,c=sk');
print $object->realName; # read attribute
$object->realName('Radovan Semancik'); # Set attribute

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I have tried it this way (mod_perl style): 
# server

my $server = SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Apache->new;
$server->dispatch_with({
    'http://jewels.bgs.sk/Factory' => $factory,
});

sub handler { $server->handler(@_) };


# client

my $soap = SOAP::Lite
    ->uri('http://jewels.bgs.sk/Factory')
    ->proxy('http://jewels.bgs.sk/soap');

my $object = $soap->instantiate('My::User','whateverId')->result;

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But alas, $object is just a simple blessed hash. This won't work, because server side objects has open database handles and several non-travsferable attributes. The only way to do this is to make a proxy object and instantiate server side object on every request.

But SOAP is supposed to be Object Access protocol, not procedural RPC ..... so I want to use it the right way.

Well, I have decided to try it another way around. I want to access objects with URI like this: 'http://jewels.bgs.sk/MyUser/whateverId' and have it dispatched the way I like it.
How can I do this in SOAP::Lite? How can I substitute my very own dispatch routine to SOAP server?

Or am I going wrong way from the very beginning?
Any help/suggestion appreciated.

In reply to SOAP::Lite dispatch routine by gildir

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