Web Service error

[chuck882]

Hello, I am very new to Perl and I want to create a Perl web service that accepts a SOAP message, grabs the XML as a text block and saves it in a DB. To do this I created two simple Perl stubs to send an XML doc to a very simple web service. However, I only get an error saying cannot access member in main. I looked this up and only seem to find very generic reasons of which none seem to apply. Below is the very simple code I have written. I am using Strawberry PERL via IIS. Code to send the SOAP message is below. I use a predefined string for the message as I want to swap out many different SOAP messages for testing.

#!perl

use HTTP::REQUEST;
use LWP::UserAgent;

#print "Hello there\n";

my $useragent = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => 'Perl Post');

my $message = '<?xml version="1.0"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://
+localhost"><soap:Header></soap:Header><soap:Body><soap:Method>Demo</s
+oap:Method></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>';

my $response = $useragent->post('http://localhost/read_xml.pl',Content
+_Type => 'text/xml', Content => $message);

print $response->as_string;

exit;

My very simplistic server code is below. Again, eventually I want to grab the XML as text but cannot even get it to connect without the error right now. I have also made Demo a class and called it as such but that did not change the error. Any ideas would be appreciated.

#!perl


use SOAP::Lite;
use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;

#print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
-> dispatch_to('Demo')
-> handle;

package Demo;

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";


print "This is a test\n";

my $argument = pop;

print "Argument is: $argument\n";

exit;

[poj]

Try this server program

#!perl
use strict;
use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
  -> dispatch_to('Demo')
  -> handle;
  
package Demo;
sub test {
  my ($self,$msg) = @_;
  return "msg : $msg\n"; 
}

with this client

#!perl
use SOAP::Lite;
print SOAP::Lite
-> uri('http://localhost/Demo')
-> proxy('http://localhost/read_xml.cgi')
-> test('hello server')
-> result;

poj

[chuck882]

I can get that to execute correctly