Greetings.
Is anybody aware of a (sort of) standard way to deal with webservices that return ADO.Net datasets?
What I've come up with so far (with SOAP::Lite) is unspeakably ugly (to these eyes, at least): 

my $lite=
  new SOAP::Lite
  ->uri($uri)
  ->proxy($proxy)
  ->on_action(sub { sprintf ('%s/%s',@_);})
  ->deserializer(SOAP::Custom::XML::Deserializer->new)
# later...
$result=$lite->call($method=>@params); # $result contains an ADO.Net d
+ataset
my $ds=$result->valueof('//NewDataSet');
my @rows=$ds->value();
my $nr=scalar(@rows);
my $res="Records:$nr\n";
return unless $nr > 0;
my @headers=map {$_->{_name}} ($rows[0]->value());
 $res .= join(",",@headers). "\n"; 
 foreach my $val (@rows) {
 $res .= join(',',($val->value())) . "\n";
}

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I've been looking all over and the best hint I got (from which the above code is derived) is from this URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnsoap/html/soapliteperl.asp.

It would appear that the perl community has forgotten about ADO.Net datasets altogether...


Cheers,
alf
You can't have everything: where would you put it?

In reply to ADO.Net datasets through SOAP::Lite (or generally perl) by alien_life_form

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