Many times, these web services came with examples in .NET or other
technology. There's a web service testing utilities such as SOAPUI and
Fiddler (as Tracy Pearson said) that allow you to test out things. One
of the features is that you can strip out all of the 'magic' and reveal
the raw HTTP Post behind the scenes.
As Ed Leafe was hinting at, the 'S' in SOAP is anything but simple. I
found it easier, and much much faster, to get to the raw post, merge in
my values with the proper structure required for the SOAP posting, and
rock on from there. What was taking VFP 2-5 seconds to instantiate the
XML DOM, etc. and make the post, I could post in 0.1 seconds ... but
with some hand coding using templated files and TEXTMERGE.
Yes, if the WSDL changes then you're screwed, but most web services
don't change the web service unless they have a major revision change.
By then EVERYTHING has changed and it's time to start over anyway.
Web services using SOAP stink IMHO. They haven't lived up to the
promise. Of course EDI is a nightmare. Web Services using JSON might
be marginally easier to work with raw but most use SOAP based on my
experience. Frustrating.
I guess I just think differently and I'm not willing to jump through
Microsoft's SOAPy hoops.
On 05/23/2013 11:21 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
Kevin -- not sure I follow you. Are you saying you just basically
went to the web page, manually did what you would (to find out the
resulting url), then plugged that into your code, then screen-scraped
the results of the final page?
I'm sure I'm wrong but I wanted to get more details.
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