Well - this is a web service in genral terms, but the amount of code you have to write makes it more "kludgy" compared to doing it in cfmx.
-----Original Message----- From: Tony Schreiber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:57 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Web Services and CF5 I've written an application to communicate with eBay via their (relatively new) API. I make an http call to eBay and get back XML using the SOXML tag. What's the difference between that an a web service exactly? <!--- Instantiate object and make request ---> <cfobject type="COM" action="Create" name="objServerXMLHttp" class="msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.4.0"> <cfset objServerXMLHttp.open("#Method#", "#URL#", False)> <cfset objServerXMLHttp.send("#XMLRequest#")> <!--- Set response ---> <CFSET objDOM = objServerXMLHttp.responseXML> <!--- Transform XML response to CF structure ---> <cf_SOXML action="XML2CF" encoding="iso-8859-1" input="#objDOM.xml#" output="eBayResponse"> > SOXML is a very good tag, they parse XML very similar to CF5. It even makes > a dump like cfxml. www.siteobjects.com > > Robert Everland III > Web Developer Extraordinaire > Dixon Ticonderoga Company > http://www.dixonusa.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Forta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:06 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Web Services and CF5 > > > CF5 has no built in support for Web Services. Best you'll be able to do is > use <CFHTTP> to make a request and you'll get XML data back. Then you'll > need to use a third party XML parser (sorry, <CFXML> tag is CFMX > only) to manipulate the data. Bottom line, use CFMX. > > --- Ben > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Vosika [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 11:47 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Web Services and CF5 > > > I have never used Web Services before and I thought I should figure them out > during my free time before I actually need to. I tried searching on google > for topics about web services and cold fusion and could not find anything > related to CF5 which is all I get to deal with. I am trying to integrate > with google's api and I found a code snippet on their website for use with > cold fusion mx that used this tag below to use the web service. Seems pretty > simple but I can't seem to figure out the Cold Fusion 5 equivalent tag(s) to > use web services, could someone please point me in the right direction? Here > is the code for cfmx: > > <cfinvoke > > webservice="http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl"; > method="doGoogleSearch" > key="--- PUT YOUR KEY HERE ---" > q="#searchterm#" > start="0" > maxResults="10" > filter="true" > restrict="" > safeSearch="false" > lr="" > ie="latin1" > oe="latin1" > returnVariable="resultset" > > > > > Thanks, > Jim Vosika > http://tinyclick.com <http://tinyclick.com/> <http://tinyclick.com/> > Free URL Shortening! > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
