SOAP::Lite Question

decibel3276 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am trying to access a webservice and believe I have finally hit the service however it is rejecting my request as there is no namespace set for the QueryAbc method.

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe
use warnings;
use strict;

use XML::Simple;
use SOAP::Lite +trace => 'debug';
use Data::Dumper;

my $post = "<request>";
$post = $post . "<Number>".$number."</Number>";
$post = $post . "<InternalData></InternalData>";
$post = $post . "</request>";

my $soap = SOAP::Lite
  -> proxy ('https://myrealm.com/service.asmx')
  -> service ('file:abc.wsdl');
  
sub SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::get_basic_credentials { 
  return 'username@subrealm.realm.net' => '!pa$$w0rd!';
};

my $elem = SOAP::Data->type('xml' => $post);

$soap->QueryAbc($elem);
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The resulting XML looks good except for that missing namespace:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enc
+oding/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encod
+ing/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmln
+s:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://w
+ww.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <QueryAbc xmlns="">
      <request>
        <Number>9765551212</Number>
        <InternalData></InternalData>
      </request>
    </QueryAbc>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
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Anyone know how to add the namespace in the <QueryAbc> node?

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Re: SOAP::Lite Question by cengineer (Pilgrim) on Jun 05, 2007 at 20:02 UTC
You can try creating a module from the wsdl using stubmaker. `stubmaker http://www.service.com/service?wsdl` From there, you can edit the namespaces for each function within the module.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: SOAP::Lite Question by decibel3276 (Initiate) on Jun 07, 2007 at 13:39 UTC
That worked beautifully. Now the only thing that appears to be holding up my request is the SOAP-ENV prefix. How would I go about modifying the envelope so that instead of SOAP-ENV, it would just say, for example, soap:Envelope instead of SOAP-ENV:Envelope?	[reply]
Re^3: SOAP::Lite Question by decibel3276 (Initiate) on Jun 07, 2007 at 14:05 UTC
I was reading through some forums and discovered that, from what I was able to comprehend, that this is because the messages is being encoded in SOAP-RPC and not doc/literal which is what the .NET service is looking for. Is this correct? Can anyone shed some light on this for me?	[reply]
Re: SOAP::Lite Question by naikonta (Curate) on Jun 05, 2007 at 16:12 UTC
I'm not answering your question as I never play with SOAP. I just wanted to let you know that you don't need that multiple assignments and superflous double quotes on literal strings. Instead, you can use <<here-doc syntax: `my $post = <<EOF; <request> <Number>$number</Number> <InternalData></InternalData> </request> EOF` [download] But, where the heck that `$number` variable comes from? Open source softwares? Share and enjoy. Make profit from them if you can. Yet, share and enjoy!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: SOAP::Lite Question by Util (Priest) on Jun 05, 2007 at 16:33 UTC
If I have read this article correctly, with newer SOAP::Lite (>= 0.68), do this: `$soap->default_ns('http://www.someuri.com');` [download] and with older SOAP::Lite (<= 0.67), do this: `$soap->uri('http://www.someuri.com');` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: SOAP::Lite Question by decibel3276 (Initiate) on Jun 05, 2007 at 19:08 UTC
Neither of these suggestions do what I am looking to do. Is there any way to edit the body of a soap request before it is dispatched?	[reply]
Re: SOAP::Lite Question by jhourcle (Prior) on Jun 05, 2007 at 19:49 UTC
Anyone know how to add the namespace in the `<QueryAbc>` node? Yes, Util does. However, you'll want to make sure that you call it _after_ your call to `service()`, so it overrides whatever's in your wsdl. Of course, if it were me, I'd just change the wsdl so it had the namespace in it (and the proxy ... which I'm guessing it has in it, and your call to `proxy()` is superfluous.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: SOAP::Lite Question by ForgotPasswordAgain (Vicar) on Jun 05, 2007 at 16:18 UTC
SOAP::Lite docs on interoperability	[reply]