Expecting data from SOAP::Data

Gorby has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Wise Monks,

I wrote a SOAP client that submits data using the following snippet:

$data1=SOAP::Data->name('var1')->value($value)->type('string');
$response=SOAP::Lite
     ->uri($uri)
     ->proxy($proxy)
     ->function1($data1);
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What code do I use to retrieve the value of var1 in the SOAP server? The following code doesn't work:

sub function1
{
  %parameters=@_;
  $var1=$parameters{var1};
  return($var1);
}
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Thanks in advance for your help.

Gorby

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Re: Expecting data from SOAP::Data by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jan 19, 2005 at 15:28 UTC
For the general case a quick and easy solution to find what you are getting as the parameters to the SOAP server method is by adding `use Data::Dumper;` to your module and then change the method to be: `sub function1 { return Dumper(@_); }` [download] If you you have added `+trace =>'all'` to the `use SOAP::Lite` in the client then you will see exactly what it is that the method is getting. /J\	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Expecting data from SOAP::Data by rdfield (Priest) on Jan 19, 2005 at 15:19 UTC
What's in `%parameters`? rdfield	[reply] [d/l]