Brethren,

finally I am getting on with the times and today I have started adding web services using SOAP and WSDL (btw, check out Pod::WSDL, it's great). Wherever I look, be it SOAP::Lite documentation or "Programming Web Services with Perl" by Ray and Kulchenko, published SOAP methods use camel case: ie getBooksByAuthor instead of Perl's recommended get_books_by_author.

My question is: which style should my SOAP methods follow? On one hand, there is Perl style guide. On the other hand, underscores in method names may throw off the consumers of the web services.

I am currently leaning towards using camel case because that seems to be the convention. Furthermore, the language in which web services are implemented does not matter and does not have to be apparent.

What do you think?

  - Dmitri.

In reply to Style question: SOAP method naming. by dmitri

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