SOAP::Lite, WSDL and the example

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

All, I am trying to figure out how to use SOAP::Lite for calling webservices, specifically using the wsdl variation in SOAP::Lite. The only example ( the stock quote ) for wsdl simply does not work for me -- I get back a blank, and the trace shows that there is a null exception error at the far end. However, when I use a GUI tool to make the call it works fine. When I compare the XML being sent by the two they are very, very different -- the GUI one is pretty clean and easy to read and the SOAP::Lite is a bit more cluttered ( I understand the far side doesn't care, but I just wanted to indicate that they are different. )

use SOAP::Lite;
print SOAP::Lite
-> service('http://www.xmethods.net/sd/StockQuoteService.wsdl')
-> getQuote('MSFT');
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Any ideas? Is there a better library out there to use for this purpose than SOAP::Lite? I see SOAP::WSDL but it doesn't seem to be maintained at this point. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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Re: SOAP::Lite, WSDL and the example by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jan 21, 2007 at 11:25 UTC
I tried this: `#!/usr/bin/perl use SOAP::Lite; use SOAP::WSDL; use strict; use warnings; my $service = SOAP::Lite; -> service('http://www.xmethods.net/sd/StockQuoteService.wsdl'); print "MSFT ", $service->getQuote('MSFT'), "\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: SOAP::Lite, WSDL and the example by Anonymous Monk on Oct 03, 2008 at 17:59 UTC
You have an extra ; after Lite ... use the following: my $service = SOAP::Lite -> service('http://www.xmethods.net/sd/StockQuoteService.wsdl');	[reply]
Re: SOAP::Lite, WSDL and the example by jhourcle (Prior) on Jan 21, 2007 at 13:10 UTC
The example worked for me (printed '31.11') As understand it, the functionality of SOAP::WSDL has been rolled into SOAP::Lite. I am, however, running an older version of SOAP::Lite -- 0.60 on the system I tested from, and I don't think I have any systems running greater than 0.67 (make test fails for me on 0.68 and 0.69, and I haven't had a chance to figure out just what's going on, but I don't need any of the new functionality, so I just used older versions)	[reply]