SOAP::Lite reconnect

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

I am currently using SOAP::Lite as follows:

my $soap = SOAP::Lite
  -> uri('https://www.abc.com/') 
  -> proxy('http://abc:9090/SomeClass/ClassName.asmx');
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However if the connection fails, I want my program to try to reconnect without dying out. It must try reconnecting n number of times before finally giving up. Does anyone know how to achieve this ?

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Re: SOAP::Lite reconnect by cowboy (Friar) on Jun 14, 2006 at 22:06 UTC
In the SOAP::Lite documentation have a look for the on_fault() method. It mentions the default action is to die on a transport error, or do nothing on other error conditions. Another alternative, would be to trap the die in an eval {}, although that will only trap the transport errors.	[reply]
Re: SOAP::Lite reconnect by shreya (Novice) on Jun 14, 2006 at 22:14 UTC
I am aware of on_fault but not sure how that can help me reconnect n number of times.	[reply]
Re^2: SOAP::Lite reconnect by cowboy (Friar) on Jun 14, 2006 at 22:53 UTC
Try something like this (not the best example, I find SOAP::Lite quite powerful, but difficult to understand at the same time - untested code). `my $soap; my $tries = 0; my $success = 0; while ($tries < 10 && !$success) { $success = 1; # set it to one, on fault, we'll set it to 0 $soap = SOAP::Lite -> on_fault(sub { $success = 0; }), -> uri('http...ect'); ++$tries; }` [download] Update: fixed typo (thanks ptum)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: SOAP::Lite reconnect by jhourcle (Prior) on Jun 15, 2006 at 14:46 UTC
With the slight chance that you weren't the same person to ask a rather similar question on the soaplite mailing list yesterday, see Eric Bridger's reply	[reply]