Thank you for this recommendation. SOAP::WSDL does, in fact, seem to have been designed for this problem.

I was able to get the simple methods to work using the WSDL, which saves some grief in terms of rolling my own XML. Unfortunately, again, I got hung up on the complex types, and the error messages produced aren't very elaborate. It seems that when I call a method that involves complex types, the WSDL is not able to resolve the definitions. I suspect this is because of a corporate firewall, but I'm not sure.

Here's the code I have so far (somewhat sanitized):

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use SOAP::WSDL +trace => 'all';

use Data::Dumper;

Main: {
  my $soap=SOAP::WSDL->new( wsdl => 'http://some_ip/wsdl/myServiceName
+.wsdl' );

  $soap->proxy('http://some_ip:port/some/path/myServiceLocation');

  $soap->servicename('myServiceName');
 
  $soap->wsdlinit( caching => 1);

  my $response;
  
  eval { # this one worked with no troubles
    $response = $soap->call( 'queryItem' ,  
      id => 'blah' ,
      pwd => 'bleh',
      itemId => '9015');
  };

  if ($@) {
    print "SOAP call failed: $@\n";
    exit;
  }
      
  eval { # this one fails with the "error processing WSDL" message
    $response = SOAP_add_Item($soap);
  };

  if ($@) {
    print "SOAP call failed: $@\n";
    exit;
  }
    
  if ($response->fault) { 
    print Dumper($response->faultdetail), "\n"; 
  }
  else {
    my $body = $response->result; 
    unless ($body == 0) {
      print "SOAP Message: ", Dumper($body);
    }
  }
}


sub SOAP_add_Item {
    my $soap = shift;
    my $response = $soap->call('addItem',
   'id' => 'blah',
   'pwd' => 'bleh',
   'itemId' => '1234',
   'itemName' => 'Test Item',
   'Ranges' => [
     { 'min' => '8605118310',
       'max' => '8605118319' } ] );
   
  return $response;
}
    
#   'Ranges' => [
#     bless( {
#       'min' => '8605118310',
#       'max' => '8605118319'
#     }, 'SoapTypeRange' ) ] );

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I've tried the complex 'Ranges' type with and without the reference to the type 'SoapTypeRange', but in neither case does it seem to be able to resolve the type.

Instead, I get this message:

SOAP call failed: Error processing WSDL: './/xsd:element' not found at
+ /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/SOAP/WSDL.pm line 504.

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That line in WSDL.pm seems to be in the context of attempting to resolve definitions for complex types. The relevant lines in the WSDL seem to be:

<wsdl:definitions name="myServiceName" 
targetNamespace="http://some_ip/wsdl/myServiceName/" 
xmlns:tns="http://some_ip/wsdl/myServiceName/" 
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:soap12="http:
+//schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/" 
xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/" xmlns:mime="http://
+schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/" 
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:wsdl="
+http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" 
<wsdl:types> 
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
targetNamespace="http://some_ip/package/various.other.soap.types 
/"> 
<xsd:import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" /> 
<xsd:complexType name="SoapTypeRange"> 
<xsd:all> 
<xsd:element name="min" type="xsd:long" /> 
<xsd:element name="max" type="xsd:long" /> 
</xsd:all> 
</xsd:complexType> 
<xsd:complexType name="ArrayOfSoapTypeRange"> 
<xsd:complexContent> 
<xsd:restriction base="soapenc:Array"> 
<xsd:attribute ref="soapenc:arrayType" wsdl:arrayType="n11:SoapTypeRan
+ge[]" /> 
</xsd:restriction> 
</xsd:complexContent> 
</xsd:complexType> 
</xsd:schema> 
</wsdl:types>

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I'm stumped. If I can't get outside the firewall to resolve the complex type definitions, then how can I build a workable SOAP call to this service? Any additional thoughts are very welcome.


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