Suppressing nil attribute in empty SOAP tag

[ptum]

I'm using SOAP::Lite in a client which consumes a SOAP service over which I have no control. Traditionally, I've used code like this:

  
my $response;
eval {
  $response = $soap_handle->call('MyMethod', $security_token, $datagra
+m);
}};

if ($@) {
  print "Error: SOAP call died: $@. \n";
}

When the method doesn't call for any arguments, I just pass undef in $datagram, and it worked just fine, producing XML like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope blah blah blah>
  <soapenv:Header>
    <wsse:Security blah><blah>blah</blah></wsse:Security>
  </soapenv:Header>
  <soapenv:Body>
    <MyMethod xsi:nil="true" />
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Recently, the vendor has updated their web service, and they no longer accept the xsi:nil="true" attribute.

How can I suppress that nil attribute using SOAP::Lite, so that my tag looks more like this?

  <soapenv:Body>
    <MyMethod/>
  </soapenv:Body>

[Anonymous Monk]

How can I suppress that nil attribute using SOAP::Lite, so that my tag looks more like this?

Use a custom serializer

This is sub SOAP::Lite::call

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This is the part that creates the request

        envelope => $serializer->envelope(method => shift, @_),

This is an example of using envelope directly Re: Problems with SOAP::Lite client

This is an example of using a custom serializer Re: SOAP::Lite server - changing method name in response

This is an example of bypassing all the SOAP::Lite soap generation and faking it Re^6: checkVat - SOAP::Lite

I would look into using SOAP::Simple (or SOAP::WSDL, XML::Compile ...)

[gnork]

I stumbled over the same problem a few days ago and found a possible solution.

Here is a snippet from my post to the SOAP::Lite Mailinglist.

--snip--
All I found so far on the web is the hint to create my own serializer to solve this.

I dont think this will solve my problem as I dont want to change the behaviour of SOAP::Lite with regard to serialization of an undefined parameter
but rather want to skip the parameter serialization for parameterless method calls completely.

After some UTSL I changed line 1593 in SOAP::Lite from

$body->set_value($parameters ? \$parameters : SOAP::Utils::encode_data()) if $body;

to

$body->set_value($parameters, \$parameters) if $body && $parameters;

which results in the "correct" body tag as described above.

I would like to know if there is a better way to achieve this or if not,whether we could make this behaviour configuration dependend lets say over a
method call like $handle->suppress_nils_in_parameterless_calls(1|0) as already implemented for calls like $handle->use_default_ns()
--/snip--