Fellow Monks:

I am using SOAP::Lite as a client to access a SOAP server (AXIS on Apache) and had found it really simple until I got to a specific Complex Type. The WSDL fro the type is:

<complexType name="HashMapBean">
  <sequence>
    <element name="values" nillable="true" type="impl:ArrayOf_xsd_stri
+ng"/>
    <element name="keys" nillable="true" type="impl:ArrayOf_xsd_string
+"/>
  </sequence>
</complexType>
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If I query a method in the web service that returns a HashMapBean it comes back as:

$VAR = bless( {
  'keys' => bless( [
    'name',
    'addr',
    'phone'
  ], 'string' ),
  'values' => bless( [
    'bubba',
    'home',
    '555-1212'
  ], 'string')
}, 'HashMapBean' )
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In another method, I need to pass in a HashMapBean, so I create the same structure and pass it in the the SOAP::Lite call and I get the error:

  String value expected instead of string reference
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From browsing the code it appears that inserializing the data before sending it it bounces back that message when anything declared as a string type has a value that is a reference.

Has anyone else encountered this message or have any ideas how I can send this complex type throught to the soap server.

Of all the messages I have found (Googled), they all suggest changing the soap server's method params. but I do not have that access.

Any information would be helpful, thanks in advance.