I have to agree with Matt regarding the application design goals and that the best
means for that particular solution might be to provide raw XML as a HTTP response.
However, to attack the problem of returning XML from a CFMX Web Service, I found that
I was not able to return an XML object unless I converted it to a string first. And
as Tony pointed out, setting the return type of CFFUNCTION to "xml" is not legal, ...
yet.
This small example did work, in the end, to display the XML result.
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\xml_test.cfc
================================
<CFCOMPONENT displayname="Return Simple XML">
<CFFUNCTION name="getXML" access="remote" returntype="any" output="No">
<CFSCRIPT>
xmlDoc = XMLNew();
xmlDoc.theRoot = XmlElemNew(xmlDoc,"theRoot");
xmlDoc.theRoot.XmlChildren[1] =
XmlElemNew(xmlDoc,"aChildNode");
xmlDoc.theRoot.XmlChildren[1].XmlText = "foo";
xmlDoc.theRoot.XmlChildren[1].XmlAttributes["type"] =
"1";
xmlDoc.theRoot.XmlChildren[2] =
XmlElemNew(xmlDoc,"aChildNode");
xmlDoc.theRoot.XmlChildren[2].XmlText = "bar";
xmlDoc.theRoot.XmlChildren[2].XmlAttributes["type"] =
"2";
</CFSCRIPT>
<CFSET tmpXml = toString(xmlDoc)>
<CFRETURN tmpXml>
<!---
<CFRETURN xmlDoc>
--->
</CFFUNCTION>
</CFCOMPONENT>
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\xml_test.cfm
================================
<CFSETTING showdebugoutput="No">
<CFSCRIPT>
objXML = createObject("webservice","http://localhost/xml_test.cfc?wsdl";);
xmlDoc = objXML.getXML();
</CFSCRIPT>
<CFCONTENT type="text/xml">
<CFOUTPUT>#xmlDoc#</CFOUTPUT>
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:mliotta@;r337.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:07 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: another error...cfc...datatype...xml
I'm not sure why you want to return an XML document to a consumer of
your web service. That would essentially mean your web service would be
encapsulating an XML document inside of an XML document (SOAP). If you
just want a client to receive an XML document, skip web services and
just provide the XML document as the HTTP response.
If you could share what you are really trying to do we could probably
help better with that. However, if you really need to send an XML
document via a web service then you should return it as an encoded
string.
Matt Liotta
President & CEO
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.montarasoftware.com/
888-408-0900 x901
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Weeg [mailto:tony@;navtrak.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:00 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: another error...cfc...datatype...xml
>
> i could share it, but i got it....it was the problem that
> i had an application.cfm file, and when invoking the webservice, it
> didnt
> pull some vars that i had set in there, i hard coded them
> and i got it!
>
> now, the problem is i just want to return an xml feed back to the
> consumer
> and using xml as a datatype doesnt jive?
>
> any ideas?
>
> thanks.
> tony.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Liotta [mailto:mliotta@;r337.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:50 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: another error...cfc...datatype...xml
>
>
> Can you share some code, so we can see what is going on?
>
> Matt Liotta
> President & CEO
> Montara Software, Inc.
> http://www.montarasoftware.com/
> 888-408-0900 x901
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Weeg [mailto:tony@;navtrak.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:47 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: another error...cfc...datatype...xml
> >
> > matt
> >
> > you had mention the use of the return datatype being
> > xml as an ok one to use....error...
> >
> > AXIS error
> > Sorry, something seems to have gone wrong... here are the details:
> >
> >
[coldfusion.xml.rpc.SkeletonClassLoader$UnresolvedCFCDataTypeException
> :
> > Could not resolve CFC datatype: xml]
> >
> > and even this one...
> >
> > AXIS error
> > Sorry, something seems to have gone wrong... here are the details:
> >
> >
[coldfusion.xml.rpc.SkeletonClassLoader$UnresolvedCFCDataTypeException
> :
> > Could not resolve CFC datatype: structure]
> >
> > wtf!!!!
> >
> > ...tony
> >
> > tony weeg
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > www.revolutionwebdesign.com
> > rEvOlUtIoN wEb DeSiGn
> > 410.334.6331
> >
> >
>
>
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