I have been looking at this soap lite tutorial about generating service stubs using WSDL URL
. However my data structures are more complex and have nested elements. The tutorial covers how to create complex structures using SOAP::Data
. This seems very manual.
In other languages like Java it is very easy to stub the request object and use method calls to set the parameters. Is there a way to get a request object where I can then simply make method calls on the object to set the parameters rather then "manually" writing out the complex data structure using SOAP::Data
as in the tutorial and SOAP::Data
documentation?
Note: SOAP::Lite
is not SOAP::WSDL
. The SOAP::WSDL
documentation states:
This module has a large number of known bugs and is not being actively developed. This 3.0 release is intended to update the module to pass tests on newer Perls. This is a service to existing applications already dependent on this module.
So the current supported modules are either SOAP::Lite
or XML::Compile::SOAP
.
WSDL is not actually part of the SOAP standard. WSDL was a separate standard that is commonly used with SOAP by Java/.Net et alia.
It looks like you want the Java "Point the IDE at the WSDL" method. This is no substitute for understanding the SOAP protocol. I highly recommend learning how to make manual SOAP calls and debug them - before you wind up in a situation where you have to do it on a deadline. I have known many Java 'Web Services' programmers who didn't even know how the protocol worked because the IDE wrote most of the infrastructure for them.
That said, the excellent XML::Compile::WSDL11 will probably do what you want.
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