#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# I am having difficulty with using SOAP with MIME attachments,
# possibly due to a "binary attachment" done outside a soap 
# envelope.

# Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong with this MIME::Entity , 
# so that I do not get an uncorrupted tiff or pdf file?

# The soap service is documented at http://ops.espacenet.com/ ,
# under "Input Examples" as "DocumentRetrieval"- but you probably 
# do not need that, see the code below.

# Thanks.

# To run, cut and paste and s/\n\+//g 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use SOAP::Lite ; # +trace => ['debug'] ;
use MIME::Entity;
use Data::Dumper;

my $soap = SOAP::Lite->new(); 
$soap-> proxy('http://ops.espacenet.com/OpenPatentServices/webService'
+);
$soap-> ns('urn:EPO-OpenPatentServices-documentData');
$soap-> service('http://ops.espacenet.com/OpenPatentServices/webServic
+e/getPatentData?wsdl'); 

my $req_xml; my $som;

$req_xml  = '<OpenPatentServices ACTION="DocumentRetrieval"><WORLDPATE
+NTDATA><DOCUMENT ID="EP   1000000PAFP " SYSTEM="BNS" FORMAT="SINGLE_P
+AGE_TIFF" PAGE_NUMBER="1"/></WORLDPATENTDATA></OpenPatentServices>'; 
#$req_xml  = '<OpenPatentServices ACTION="DocumentRetrieval"><WORLDPAT
+ENTDATA><DOCUMENT ID="EP   1000010A0 I " SYSTEM="BNS" FORMAT="SINGLE_
+PAGE_PDF" PAGE_NUMBER="1"/></WORLDPATENTDATA></OpenPatentServices>'; 

$som = $soap->getDocumentData($req_xml); 

my $mime_entity = ${$som->parts}[0]; 
my $body = $mime_entity->bodyhandle; 

print 'mime_entity "', Dumper $mime_entity , "\"\n" ; 

print 'binmode: ',$body->binmode(), ' -> ';
#$body->binmode(1);
print $body->binmode(1), "\n";

print 'is_encoded: "',$body->is_encoded(), '" -> ';
print $body->is_encoded(0), "\n";

open ( OUT , '>1.tif' ) or die "whoops $!" ; 
#open ( OUT , '>1.pdf' ) or die "whoops $!" ; 
print OUT $body->as_string; 
close OUT; 

print "Done!\n"; 
exit;
# typical output- and a corrupted 1.tif file. 
__DATA__
mime_entity "$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'ME_Bodyhandle' => bless( {
                                             'MBC_Data' => [
           'binary data removed'
    ],
                                             'MB_Binmode' => 1
                                           }, 'MIME::Body::InCore' ),
                 'ME_Parts' => [],
                 'mail_inet_head' => bless( {
                                              'mail_hdr_foldlen' => 79
+,
                                              'mail_hdr_modify' => 0,
                                              'mail_hdr_list' => [
                                                                   'Co
+ntent-Type: application/octet-stream
',
                                                                   'Co
+ntent-Transfer-Encoding: binary
',
                                                                   'Co
+ntent-Id: <EP   1000000PAFP .tiff>
',
                                                                   'Co
+ntent-Location: EP   1000000PAFP .tiff
'
                                                                 ],
                                              'mail_hdr_hash' => {
                                                                   'Co
+ntent-Type' => [
                                                                      
+                 \$VAR1->{'mail_inet_head'}{'mail_hdr_list'}[0]
                                                                      
+               ],
                                                                   'Co
+ntent-Location' => [
                                                                      
+                     \$VAR1->{'mail_inet_head'}{'mail_hdr_list'}[3]
                                                                      
+                   ],
                                                                   'Co
+ntent-Transfer-Encoding' => [
                                                                      
+                              \$VAR1->{'mail_inet_head'}{'mail_hdr_li
+st'}[1]
                                                                      
+                            ],
                                                                   'Co
+ntent-ID' => [
                                                                      
+               \$VAR1->{'mail_inet_head'}{'mail_hdr_list'}[2]
                                                                      
+             ]
                                                                 },
                                              'mail_hdr_mail_from' => 
+'KEEP',
                                              'mail_hdr_lengths' => {}
                                            }, 'MIME::Head' )
               }, 'MIME::Entity' );
$VAR2 = '"
';
Use of uninitialized value in print at P:/workspace/scripts/trunk/monk
+s.pl line 36.
binmode: 1 -> 1
is_encoded: "" -> 0
Done!
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