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

I'm trying to connect to a web service using SOAP::Lite using a WSDL file. Now everything works as expected apart from the Complex Type that I need to pass in which just seems to get ignored in the REQUEST header so isn't sent. This is the valid XML for the complex type (checked in SoapUI): 
<ListOfAccountContactInterface>
<Account>
<CompanyId>1029843</ConnectCompanyId>
<ListOfContact>
<Contact>
<ContactId>CON12347</ContactId>
</Contact>
</ListOfContact>
</Account>
</ListOfAccountContactInterface>

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I'm using the following code to try to generate that same thing for SOAP::Lite: 
my $param = SOAP::Data->name("ListOfAccountContactInterface" => \SOAP:
+:Data->value(
SOAP::Data->name("Account" => \SOAP::Data->value(
SOAP::Data->name("CompanyId" => '1029843'),
SOAP::Data->name("ListOfContact" => \SOAP::Data->value(
SOAP::Data->name("Contact" => \SOAP::Data->value(
SOAP::Data->name("<ContactId>" => 'CON12347')
   ))
  ))
 ))
));

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But then when I pass that through SOAP::Lite using the below it just gets left out of the request header: 
my $soap_result = SOAP::Lite
-> service('file:/home/wsdl/Contact_Interface.wsdl') 
-> ContactInsertOrUpdate($param);

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Hope that makes sense, and any help would be greatfully received.

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Re: Soap::Lite and Complex Types with WSDL
by Anonymous Monk on May 11, 2011 at 14:19 UTC
    error
    Element '<ConnectContactId>' can't be allowed in valid XML message. Died. at C:/perl/site/5.12.2/lib/SOAP/Lite.pm line 1412.
    a tidy request 
    $ perl soap.lite.904155.pl
POST http://localhost/blah/DummyService HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Accept: application/soap
User-Agent: SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.712
Content-Length: 700
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "#ContactInsertOrUpdate"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<soap:Envelope soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/enc
+oding/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:
+soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http:/
+/www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSche
+ma-instance">
  <soap:Body>
    <ContactInsertOrUpdate>
      <ListOfArmAccountContactInterface>
        <ARMAccount>
          <ContactCompanyId xsi:type="xsd:int">1029843</ContactCompany
+Id>
          <ListOfArmContact>
            <ARMContact>
              <ConnectContactId xsi:type="xsd:string">CON12347</Connec
+tContactId>
            </ARMContact>
          </ListOfArmContact>
        </ARMAccount>
      </ListOfArmAccountContactInterface>
    </ContactInsertOrUpdate>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

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    code 
    #!/usr/bin/perl --

use SOAP::Lite;

my $soap = SOAP::Lite
->proxy(
    'http://localhost/blah/DummyService',
    timeout => 0.00001,
);

$soap->transport->add_handler("request_send",  \&pp_dump );
$soap->transport->add_handler("response_done", \&pp_dump );

my $param = SOAP::Data->name(
  "ListOfArmAccountContactInterface" => \SOAP::Data->value(
    SOAP::Data->name(
      "ARMAccount" => \SOAP::Data->value(
        SOAP::Data->name( "ContactCompanyId" => '1029843' ),
        SOAP::Data->name(
          "ListOfArmContact" => \SOAP::Data->value(
            SOAP::Data->name(
              "ARMContact" => \SOAP::Data->value(
#~                 SOAP::Data->name("<ConnectContactId>" => 'CON12347'
+)
                SOAP::Data->name( "ConnectContactId" => 'CON12347' )
              )
            )
          )
        )
      )
    )
  )
);

#~ print pp(
#~     $soap->serializer()->envelope(
#~         method => 'ContactInsertOrUpdate', 
#~         $param
#~     ),
#~ ), "\n\n";

$soap->call(  'ContactInsertOrUpdate',  $param );

sub pp {
    use XML::Twig;
    open my($fh), '>', \my $str;
    no warnings 'newline';
    XML::Twig->new(qw! pretty_print record !)->xparse(@_)->print( $fh 
+);
    return $str;
}
sub pp_dump {
    my $content = $_[0]->content('');
    $_[0]->content( pp($content) );
    print $_[0]->as_string,"\n";
    return;
}

__END__

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      As far as I'm aware I can't use SOAP::Lite->proxy while using a local file location for my WSDL file? It doesn't like the 'file:/' like SOAP::Lite->service does. Thanks.
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        As far as I'm aware I can't use SOAP::Lite->proxy while using a local file location for my WSDL file? It doesn't like the 'file:/' like SOAP::Lite->service does. Thanks.

        I don't know what you mean by that. See How do I post a question effectively?

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