Umer -- As inferred by Dave Watts, your problem is that ns:DetailLevelCodeType defines a complex datatype, not the simple strings defined by the other parameters. Thus, the service you are trying to talk to requires you pass a complex-within-complex datatype, and the reason you are having difficulty figuring out how to do this is that ColdFusion can't do it.
Your problem is exactly the same problem I (and my developer Doug James) have been pestering the cf-talk list about over the last few weeks, though the context for our problem (interfacing CF to UDDI web services) has been different from yours. Regardless, ColdFusion has no way to map ColdFusion structures-within-structures to the type of element-within-element XML messages required by WSDLs that define complex-within-complex structures. Why Macromedia hasn't yet provided a way to pass CF XML document objects, rather than just CF structures, to web services requiring complex-within-complex input arguments......well, I don't know. When you define a ColdFusion structure, the structure's keys become the names of XML *attributes* which modify the XML root element of the web service input argument to which you are feeding the structure, and the value of each key becomes the value of that XML attribute. For example: <cfset find_business = structNew()> <cfset find_business.generic = "2.0"> is equivalent to <find_business generic="2.0"> But, if the WSDL requires this... <find_business> <generic>2.0</generic> </find_business> ......ah, now you're stuck, for this is a complex-within-complex definition within the WSDL, and there is no way to build a structure within CFMX 6.x (nor within CFMX 7, as it turns out) that will get translated by CF into the above XML snippet as the Axis engine is building the outgoing SOAP message. Basically, you can't set up a CF structure-within-structure that'll get mapped to an element-within-element XML structure to be sent as the body of the SOAP message going out to the web service. And if you try to build the input XML message yourself and specify the resulting XML document object as the input argument in a <cfinvoke>, CF will just auto-translate this document object into a structure -- which will be in the wrong format compared to how Axis, after parsing the WSDL, expects to see the input argument. Solution? Yes, there is one. Basically, you have to bypass CFMX's Axis web services package and all the niceties it provides you. You need to build your own SOAP input message, HTTP POST it to the target web service, and parse the SOAP output message, as follows: <cfhttp method="POST" url="path-to-the-web-service-NOTE-not-the-path-to-the-WSDL"> <cfhttpparam type="Header" name="SOAPAction" value="#chr(34)##chr(34)#"> <cfhttpparam type="XML" value='<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><Envelope xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/";><Body><yourWSDL-compliantXMLinput messagegoeshere/></Envelope>'> </cfhttp> <cfif cfhttp.fileContent is not "Connection Failure"> <cfset x = xmlparse(cfhttp.fileContent)> </cfif> <cfset soapoutputbody = x["soap:Envelope"]["soap:Body"]> Then you can dig deeper into the soapoutputbody XML document object to ferret out the return info you're really looking for. [Notes: (1) Depending on the web service you're tapping into, you may need to define the SOAPAction header as something other than the pair of double-quote marks shown above. (2) CFMX 6.0 won't suffice for this workaround. You need 6.1 or later, because it wasn't until 6.1 that the type="Header" and type="XML" attributes were added to the cfhttpparam tag, and these attributes are critical to making this workaround work.] The tough part to making this work is figuring out exactly what kind of a SOAP input message your target web service requires. Once you've got that figured out, doing the cfhttp and wading through an xmlparsing of the service's output is pretty straightforward. Doug and I recently brought this to Macromedia's attention, so we can hope that a 7.0 Updater, or 7.1, will correct this deficiency sometime within the next year or two. -- Larry Afrin Medical University of South Carolina [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:195707 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
