Sven, that use case was one reason to implement mustache. I use it to generate SOAP calls from templates. As Mustache can have nested objects in processing you could even have more complex SOAP calls. Although complex/nested SOAP calls are far from being a good idea.
Norbert > Am 03.03.2015 um 00:12 schrieb Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]>: > > We have no SOAP implementation in Pharo (yet). But that does not mean we > cannot do simple SOAP calls. Here is a practical example: checking the > validity of a EU VAT number. > > This is a public service offered by the EU through a SOAP API. The WSDL can > be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/checkVatService.wsdl > > From this we know that the endpoint is > http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/services/checkVatService > > When you paste the WSDL URL in http://wsdlbrowser.com you can explore the API > (this site parses the WSDL to reveal its contents). The call that we need is > called 'checkVat'. We can copy the call template and POST it to the endpoint, > manually. If we load the XML Parser, we can interpret the result. > > Here is the complete code: > > | xml result | > xml := ZnEntity > with: ( > '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; > xmlns:ns1="urn:ec.europa.eu:taxud:vies:services:checkVat:types"> > <SOAP-ENV:Body> > <ns1:checkVat> > <ns1:countryCode>{1}</ns1:countryCode> > <ns1:vatNumber>{2}</ns1:vatNumber> > </ns1:checkVat> > </SOAP-ENV:Body> > </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>' format: #('LU' '20165772')) > type: ZnMimeType applicationXml. > result := ZnClient new > url: 'http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/services/checkVatService'; > entity: xml; > contentReader: [ :entity | XMLDOMParser parse: entity contents ]; > post. > ((result allElementsNamed: 'checkVatResponse') first > elementsCollect: [ :each | each name -> each contentString ]) asDictionary. > > => > > a Dictionary( > 'address'->'31, RUE STE ZITHE L-2763 LUXEMBOURG' > 'countryCode'->'LU' > 'name'->'ITUNES S.A R.L.' > 'requestDate'->'2015-03-03+01:00' > 'valid'->'true' > 'vatNumber'->'20165772' ) > > Of course, this will only work with simple SOAP interfaces. > > Sven > > -- > Sven Van Caekenberghe > Proudly supporting Pharo > http://pharo.org > http://association.pharo.org > http://consortium.pharo.org > > > > >
