Ezra, that was the missing piece to my puzzle! It worked just like you said! I think the only thing I need to work out now is how to authenticate so that I can run the protected functions in UsedCarWS (as opposed to UsedCarWSSoap12). If you have any insight on that I'd welcome it!
I owe you a beer Ezra! THANK YOU!! Chris On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Ezra Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I have been following this thread out of curiosity, and I think I > might be able to help in pointing you in the right direction. > > The key bit here is the fact that the getIPAddress method has an input > parameter, identified in the dump of the stub as: > > localhost.webservices.UsedCarWS.IPAddress > > In the WSDL, this is defined as: > > <s:element name="IPAddress"> > <s:complexType/> > </s:element> > > So it's a complex type, but has no child elements, which corresponds > to an empty CF structure. Therefore, if you change your code snippet > to: > > <cfscript> > wsurl = "https://www.blackbookws.com/UsedCarWS.asmx?WSDL";; > portname = "UsedCarWSSoap12"; > ws = CreateObject("webservice", wsurl, portname); > ip = StructNew(); > </cfscript> > > <cfdump var = "#ws#"> > <cfdump var = "#ws.getIPAddress(ip)#"> > > The second dump will display the object returned by the method call, > which in turn has a getIPAddressResult() method that returns the IP of > the CF server calling the web service: > > <cfscript> > wsurl = "https://www.blackbookws.com/UsedCarWS.asmx?WSDL";; > portname = "UsedCarWSSoap12"; > ws = CreateObject("webservice", wsurl, portname); > ip = StructNew(); > response = ws.getIPAddress(ip); > </cfscript> > > <cfdump var = "#response.getIPAddressResult()#"> > > Hope that helps. > > -- > Ezra Parker > > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Chris Jordan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Brad, > > > > I tried passing the authentication stuff via the addSOAPRequestHeader, > but > > there's something else going on here. > > > > What I've learned in the last couple of hours is that when using > > CreateObject to call a web service you can pass it a portname. I know > from > > looking at the wsdl itself, that there are several portnames associated > with > > this particular web service. > > > > The author of the web service suggested that I start by using the > > getIPAddress() method as it requires NO AUTHENTICATION. So I do this: > > > > <cfscript> > > wsurl = "https://www.blackbookws.com/UsedCarWS.asmx?WSDL";; > > portname = "UsedCarWSSoap12"; > > ws = CreateObject("webservice", wsurl, portname); > > </cfscript> > > > > <cfdump var = "#ws#"> > > <cfdump var = "#ws.getIPAddress()#"> > > > > Try the code above. You'll see that dumping ws *does indeed* show you the > > available methods. There is exactly one available method: getIPAddress(). > > I've verified this also using SOAPUI (http://www.soapui.org/). > > > > when I run the code above the last dump statement causes the error: > > *Web service operation getIPAddress with parameters *{}* cannot be > found.* > > > > So, as an experiment I searched the web for some other free soap web > service > > that wouldn't require some sort of login. I found geocoder.us ( > > http://geocoder.us/dist/eg/clients/GeoCoderPHP.wsdl). I looked at some > > sample php code, and could easily see how it translated over to > ColdFusion. > > My code became: > > > > <cfscript> > > address = "1600 Pennsylvania Av, Washington, DC"; > > wsurl = "http://geocoder.us/dist/eg/clients/GeoCoderPHP.wsdl";; > > ws = CreateObject("webservice", wsurl); > > //I found the geocode_address() method by looking at the dump > > //of the ws object returned by the previous line... > > geo = ws.geocode_address(address); > > </cfscript> > > > > <cfdump var = "#ws#"> > > <cfdump var = "#geo[1].getLat()# , #geo[1].get_long()#"> > > > > This web service worked like a champ for me! :o) So, I'm not sure what's > up > > with the other one. > > As far as the dumping thing goes, I will admit that there are a few > things > > I'm not seeing, like the UserCredentials thing (which is a complexType... > > maybe that has something to do with it). > > > > You're right that the Stub functions in the parent class have nothing to > do > > with the web service itself. Those are functions that CF uses under the > hood > > I think to deal with the web services... I think. > > > > Anyway, I'm still stumped as to why my example using geocoder.us worked > > while my very similar example with blackbookusa.com isn't working... > > > > I've contacted the developer at blackbook, but probably won't hear from > him > > until Monday. I would love to figure this out this weekend if I could. > > > > Thanks for sticking with me and for continuing to offer suggestions. :o) > > > > Chris > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318477 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
