...it adds some random 'gensym' elements all over the place if you try to return a complex perl data structure to it...

...if you don't wrap stuff w/ SOAP::Data. (and it's frequently wrong...

...That's not a bug. It's a feature. Look at SOAP::Serializer ... in Autotyping, 'base64' has the highest precidence. base64's match criteria is: 
    base64 => [10, sub {$_[0] =~ /[^\x09\x0a\x0d\x20-\x7f]/}, 'as_base
+64'],

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...it's not going to be a free ride -- expect there to be some pain. Much of the problem isn't with SOAP::Lite, but with SOAP in general, and the varying implementations across toolkits.



You're making my point better than I ever could. None of these sorts of issues seem to exist in the SOAP client libraries of the other four languages that my company deals with on a regular basis: Java, PHP, Ruby, or C#. All of these languages seem to handle complexTypes, booleans, encodings, data types, etc. with a minimum of fuss and bother. Only Perl seems to require the melting of brains.

I wrote about my experience with the Ruby and other languages' SOAP libraries, if you'd like to read about a comparable experience.

For all I know, my company's customers are out there solving these problems for themselves right now, but if they are, they are awfully quiet about it. Three of us at my company have been spending time trying to come up with some sort of concrete recommendation besides "abandon the WSDL; hack the serializer; don't bother with the mail list."

In reply to Re^4: start over with SOAP in Perl? by McMahon
in thread start over with SOAP in Perl? by McMahon

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