SOAP::Lite, WSDLs and Raw XML Data

[Ozeroc]

I'm trying to send raw XML to a wsdl service using SOAP::Lite.
Here's the relevant portion of my code:

use SOAP::Lite  +trace =>  'debug';
my $wsurl =  'http://xxxxxxxx.com/SVC/services/Service?wsdl';
my $svc = SOAP::Lite-> service($wsurl);

$svc-> InsertData(@temparray);

This works BUT the angle brackets are getting escaped because the data type is set to string. To fix this I attempted to use SOAP::Data to set the type to XML like so:

use SOAP::Lite  +trace =>  'debug';
my $wsurl =  'http://xxxxxxxx.com/SVC/services/Service?wsdl';
my $svc = SOAP::Lite-> service($wsurl);
my @xmldata = SOAP::Data->type('xml' => @temparray);
$svc-> InsertData(@xmldata);

This results in an empty call to the service (no data). If I examine the resulting @xmldata with Data::Dumper I can see the data like so:

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 '_type' => 'xml',
                 '_signature' => [],
                 '_value' => [
                               '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+',
                               '<Data1>',
                               '<Data2>',
                               etc...
                             ],
                 '_attr' => {}
               }, 'SOAP::Data' );

I'm pretty new at this web services stuff and I'd like to think that perl can do anything that Java/XMLSpy can do, but this is getting frustrating. I get the same results whether I sent the xml as an array or a long string.
Any help sending raw xml to a web service would be greatly appreciated. Thanks monks! Rob

[Anonymous Monk]

I don't know much about xml, but I don't think you can have a <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> in the middle of a document.

[Anonymous Monk]

Here's an example adopted from SOAPsh.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl -- 

# adopted from
# perl -MSOAP::Lite=debug -S SOAPsh.pl http://services.soaplite.com/ex
+amples.cgi http://www.soaplite.com/My/Examples getStateList([1,9])

use warnings;
use strict;
use SOAP::Lite;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Terse  = 1;
$Data::Dumper::Indent = 1;

use SOAP::Lite +trace => 'debug';


@ARGV = qw[
  http://services.soaplite.com/examples.cgi
  http://www.soaplite.com/My/Examples
];

my ( $proxy, $uri ) = ( shift, shift );

my $soap = SOAP::Lite->proxy($proxy)->on_fault( sub { } );
$soap->uri($uri) if $uri;

$soap->readable(1);    # lifesaver


my $raw_xml =
  q~<soapenc:Array soapenc:arrayType="xsd:int[2]" xsi:type="soapenc:Ar
+ray">
        <item xsi:type="xsd:int">1</item>

        <item xsi:type="xsd:int">9</item>
      </soapenc:Array>~;

my $res = $soap->getStateList( SOAP::Data->type( 'xml' => $raw_xml ) )
+;
#my $res = $soap->getStateList([1,9]); 


die join "\n", "--- SOAP FAULT ---", $res->faultcode, $res->faultstrin
+g, ''
  if defined($res) && $res->fault;

die join "\n", "--- TRANSPORT ERROR ---", $soap->transport->status, ''
  if !$soap->transport->is_success;

print STDERR join "\n", "--- SOAP RESULT ---", Dumper( $res->paramsall
+ ), '';

__END__
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST http://services.soap
+lite.com/examples.cgi HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Accept: application/soap
Content-Length: 668
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "http://www.soaplite.com/My/Examples#getStateList"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope 
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
    xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
    soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <getStateList xmlns="http://www.soaplite.com/My/Examples">      <s
+oapenc:Array soapenc:arrayType="xsd:int[2]" xsi:type="soapenc:Array">
        <item xsi:type="xsd:int">1</item>

        <item xsi:type="xsd:int">9</item>
      </soapenc:Array>    </getStateList>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:54:40 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 DAV/1.0.3 mod_fastcgi/
+2.4.2 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.4.8 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7e
Content-Length: 683
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Client-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:58:23 GMT
Client-Peer: 208.113.208.191:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
SOAPServer: SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.55

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:xsi="ht
+tp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schem
+as.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap
+.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" SOA
+P-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"><SOAP
+-ENV:Body><namesp1:getStateListResponse xmlns:namesp1="http://www.soa
+plite.com/My/Examples"><SOAP-ENC:Array xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array" SOAP
+-ENC:arrayType="xsd:string[2]"><item xsi:type="xsd:string">Alabama</i
+tem><item xsi:type="xsd:string">Florida</item></SOAP-ENC:Array></name
+sp1:getStateListResponse></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
--- SOAP RESULT ---
[
  'Alabama',
  'Florida'
]