bump? :o/
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Chris Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'd like to hit the list up again on this subject if I could. Ezra helped
> me immensley, but I'm still having trouble.
>
> First, just so Ezra knows, this authHeader business you gave me worked just
> fine. I'm authenticating and am able to call methods.
>
> ... BUT, it's not working like I expected -- or even like the
> getIPAddress() example earlier in this thread. I take for my example another
> relatively simple method call: getYears(). This method takes exactly one
> argument: a string representing the CountryCode (U = United States, C =
> Canada, B = Both).
>
> Now the C# example shows something like:
>
> ws.getYears("U")
>
> Wouldn't it be lovely if that's all *I* had to do, too? But no. When I look
> up the Years element in the WSDL I find:
>
> <s:element name="Years">
> <s:complexType>
> <s:sequence>
> <s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="sCountryCode"
> type="s:string"/>
> </s:sequence>
> </s:complexType>
> </s:element>
>
> It's a complex type. Well, thanks to Ezra I know that this means a CF
> structure. So I create a structure with a member called 'sCountryCode' and I
> set it to "U". So my code becomes:
>
> <cfscript>
> wsurl = "https://www.blackbookws.com/UsedCarWS.asmx?WSDL";;
> portname = "UsedCarWS1";
> portname = "UsedCarWS";
> ws = CreateObject("webservice", wsurl, portname);
>
> authHeader = xmlNew();
> authHeader.UserCredentials = xmlElemNew(authHeader,"
> http://localhost/webservices/UsedCarWS";, "UserCredentials");
>
> // authHeader stuff here... ommitted for space...
>
> args = structNew();
> args.sCountryCode = "U";
> response = ws.getYears(args);
> </cfscript>
> <cfdump var="#response#">
>
> So, response is now an object of type
> localhost.webservices.UsedCarWS.YearsResponse that contains several
> functions. Just like in the getIPAddress() example there was a method that
> required no arguments that allowed me to get the returned data. In this case
> it's called getYearsResult().
>
> Here comes the problem. When I run getYearsResult(), instead of getting
> back some sort of data structure with all of the available years in it, I
> get another object with methods like:
>
> equals(java.lang.Object)
> getDeserializer(java.lang.String, java.lang.Class,
> javax.xml.namespace.QName)
> getSerializer(java.lang.String, java.lang.Class, javax.xml.namespace.QName)
> getTypeDesc()
> get_any()
> hashCode()
> set_any(org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement[])
>
> This confuses me even more. I have verified with the web service provider
> that I am authenticting correctly and that the function is getting called. I
> can't tell what data is coming back, but it is running and wouldn't do so if
> I didn't authenticate correctly, so that's not the issue.
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong (other than trying to consume a SOAP based
> web service)? This is obviously much, much easier in a .NET environment.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Ezra Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You're welcome, I'm glad that helped. As far as authentication goes,
>> it looks like this needs to be submitted as a SOAP header. I'm not too
>> familiar with that aspect of web services, but here is my stab at it:
>>
>> <cfscript>
>> wsurl = "https://www.blackbookws.com/UsedCarWS.asmx?WSDL";;
>> portname = "UsedCarWS";
>> ws = CreateObject("webservice", wsurl, portname);
>>
>> authHeader = xmlNew();
>> authHeader.UserCredentials = xmlElemNew(authHeader,
>> "http://localhost/webservices/UsedCarWS";, "UserCredentials");
>>
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.userid = xmlElemNew(authHeader, "userid");
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.userid.xmlText = "userid"; //plug in
>> your userid value here
>>
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.password = xmlElemNew(authHeader,
>> "password");
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.password.xmlText = "password"; //plug in
>> your password value here
>>
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.company = xmlElemNew(authHeader, "company");
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.company.xmlText = "company"; //plug in
>> your company value here
>>
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.producttype = xmlElemNew(authHeader,
>> "producttype");
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.producttype.xmlText = "producttype";
>> //plug in your producttype value here
>>
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.returncode = xmlElemNew(authHeader,
>> "returncode");
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.returncode.xmlText = "0"; //this needs
>> to be an integer
>>
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.returnmessage = xmlElemNew(authHeader,
>> "returnmessage");
>> authHeader.UserCredentials.returnmessage.xmlText = "returnmessage";
>> //can this be an empty string?
>>
>> addSOAPRequestHeader(ws, "ignored", "ignored", authHeader);
>> body = structNew();
>>
>> response = ws.getAllStates(body);
>> </cfscript>
>>
>> <cfdump var="#response#">
>>
>> I'm creating the header as an XML document (there may be a less
>> verbose way of dealing with this -- if so, I'd love to hear it), and
>> using the namespace indicated in the examples listed here:
>>
>> https://www.blackbookws.com/UsedCarWS.asmx?op=AllStates
>>
>> You will need to plug in the correct values for userid, password,
>> etc., of course. I cannot tell if this works, as I obviously do not
>> have the authentication credentials, but it does not thrown an error,
>> and returns what appears to be a valid response (without any data).
>>
>> I'd be curious to hear if this actually works or not...
>>
>> --
>> Ezra Parker
>>
>>
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