#!/usr/bin/perl -w package SOAP::WSDL; use SOAP::Lite; use vars qw($VERSION @ISA); use XML::XPath; use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; @ISA= qw(SOAP::Lite); $VERSION = "1.21"; sub wsdlinit { my $self=shift; my %opt=@_; $self->{_WSDL}->{ cache } = {}; $self->{_WSDL}->{ caching } = $opt{ caching }; $self->{_WSDL}->{ cache_directory } = $opt{ cache_directory } if exists($opt{cache_directory}); $self->{_WSDL}->{ checkoccurs } = 1 unless defined( $self->{_WSDL}->{ checkoccurs } ); if (($self->{_WSDL}->{ caching }) && (! $self->{_WSDL }->{ fileCache })) { $self->wsdl_cache_init(); }; #makeup xpath document my $xpath; # check cache if ($self->{_WSDL}->{ fileCache }) { # get xpath from cache $xpath = $self->{_WSDL}->{ fileCache }->get( $self->wsdl ); # get in-memory cache from cache if ($self->{_WSDL}->{ caching }) { my $cache=$self->{_WSDL}->{ fileCache }->get( $self->wsdl."_cache" ); $self->{_WSDL}->{ cache } = $cache || {}; } } unless ($xpath) { $xpath = XML::XPath->new( xml => SOAP::Schema->new(schema_url => $self->wsdl)->access ); } ($xpath) || die "Error processing WSDL: Cannot create XPath object"; $self->_wsdl_xpath( $xpath ); # Get root element () and get # default prefix (the root element's one). my $definitions=undef; $definitions=$xpath->find('/*[1]')->shift; my $prefix= $definitions->getPrefix; $self->_wsdl_wsdlns( $prefix ? $prefix.':' : '' ); # get the targetNamespace my $tns= $definitions->getAttribute('targetNamespace') || die "Error processing WSDL: cannot get "; # look for schema namespace & prefix for targetNamespace my ($defaultNS, $schemaNS) = ('',''); my @_ns_sub_list=(); my $nameSpaces=$definitions->getNamespaces || die "Error processing WSDL: cannot get namespaces"; my $nsHash={}; foreach my $ns( @{ $nameSpaces } ) { $xpath->set_namespace($ns->getPrefix, $ns->getData); if ($ns->getData eq $tns) { push @_ns_sub_list, $ns->getPrefix; next; } #------------------------------------------------------- # Here we look for the default wsdl namespace which is used *only* # when we are looking for the arrays restrictions. # Originally the prefix was used for this, but sometimes the prefix # can be omitted #------------------------------------------------------- $ns->getPrefix eq "#default" and next; if($ns->getData eq "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"){ $self->_wsdl_wsdlExplicitNS ($ns->getPrefix?$ns->getPrefix.":":""); } # the schema namespace is hardcoded in to the SOAP::Constants package, # in the Lite.pm module if (defined $SOAP::Constants::XML_SCHEMAS{$ns->getData } and $SOAP::Constants::XML_SCHEMAS{$ns->getData }=~/SOAP::XMLSchema\d+/){ $schemaNS=$ns->getPrefix; } $nsHash->{ $ns->getData } = $ns->getPrefix.':'; } $self->_wsdl_ns($nsHash); $defaultNS = join('|', @_ns_sub_list); $self->_wsdl_tns($defaultNS); $self->_wsdl_tns_uri($tns); $self->_wsdl_schemans($schemaNS); #--- #-- TBD: remove all the hardcoded urls $self->_wsdl_soapns($self->_wsdl_ns->{'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/'}); #the default namespaces for types $self->{_WSDL}->{_type_ns} = ""; $self->_wsdl_schemans and $self->{_WSDL}->{_type_ns} .= $self->_wsdl_schemans.":|"; #TBD: the apache soap special case has to be handled elsewhere $nsHash->{'http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap'} and $self->{_WSDL}->{_type_ns} .= $nsHash->{'http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap'} . "|";; chop $self->{_WSDL}->{_type_ns}; } sub call { my $self=shift; my $method=shift; my %data=@_; my $path; my $location; my $mode='input'; my $tns=$self->_wsdl_tns; my $ns=$self->_wsdl_ns; my $xpath=$self->_wsdl_xpath; ($xpath) || do { $self->wsdlinit; $xpath=$self->_wsdl_xpath || die "Error processing WSDL: no wsdl object"; }; my $portType = ""; my $binding = ""; my $portName = ""; $portName = $self->portname; $portName or die "Error processing the call: no port found"; #look for the binding $path = join( $self->_wsdl_wsdlns, ("/", "definitions/", "service[\@name='".($self->servicename)."']/", "port[\@name='".$portName."']")); my $port =$xpath->find($path)->shift || die "Error processing WSDL file - no such port ($path)"; $binding = $port->findvalue('@binding') || die "Error processing WSDL: Cannot find the binding for the service $path"; #look for the location $path .= "/".$self->_wsdl_soapns. "address"; my $address =$xpath->find($path)->shift || die "Error processing WSDL file - no such address ($path)"; $location = $address->findvalue('@location')->value || die "Error processing WSDL: Cannot find the port for the location in service $path"; $self->proxy($location); # remove the default targetNamespace from messageName $binding=~s/^($tns)\:*//; $binding =~ s/^($tns)\:*//; $path = join ($self->_wsdl_wsdlns, ('/', 'definitions/', "binding[\@name='$binding']/\@type")); $portType = $self->_wsdl_findvalue($path,"dieIfError"); $portType =~s/^(.*?)\://; #Now we need to find the operation, in the binding. #After that we can extract the SoapAction and the #input name, if defined $path= join ($self->_wsdl_wsdlns, ('/', 'definitions/', "binding[\@name='$binding']/", "operation[\@name='$method']/", $mode)); #overload: the user has provided a the input name for us $data{"wsdl_${mode}_name"} and $path .= "[\@name='".$data{"wsdl_${mode}_name"}."']"; #now we can get the soapaction my $soapActionPath = "$path/../".$self->_wsdl_soapns."operation/\@soapAction"; my $soapAction=$self->_wsdl_findvalue($soapActionPath,""); $soapAction and $self->on_action(sub {sprintf "$soapAction"}); #if defined, the input message name has to be the leading item #in the SOAP call. If not defined, it has to be the operation #name. In the case of overloaded calls, it *IS* the parameter passed #by the calling script. So my $inputMessageName; if($data{"wsdl_${mode}_name"}){ $inputMessageName = $data{"wsdl_${mode}_name"}; }else{ $inputMessageName = $self->_wsdl_findvalue("$path/\@name",""); } $inputMessageName or $inputMessageName = $method; $path= join ($self->_wsdl_wsdlns, ('/', 'definitions/', "binding[\@name='$binding']/", "operation[\@name='$method']/", "$mode/")). $self->_wsdl_soapns."body/"; #a call can have an associated, namespace my $callNamespace = $self->_wsdl_findvalue("$path\@namespace",""); $callNamespace or $callNamespace = $self->_wsdl_tns_uri; #the encoding style is required when handling restricted complextypes my $encodingStyle = ""; $encodingStyle = $self->_wsdl_findvalue("$path\@encodingStyle",""); $encodingStyle and $self->wsdl_encoding($self->_wsdl_ns->{$encodingStyle}); $path = join ($self->_wsdl_wsdlns, ('/', 'definitions/', "portType[\@name='$portType']/", "operation[\@name='$method']/", $mode)); #overload: the calling script has to say wich overloading #procedure call has to be encoded and forwarded to the server $data{"wsdl_${mode}_name"} and $path .= "[\@name='".$data{"wsdl_${mode}_name"}."']"; $path .= "/\@message"; my $messageName = $self->_wsdl_findvalue($path,"dieIfError"); $messageName =~ s/^($tns)\:*//; $path= join( $self->_wsdl_wsdlns, ('/', 'definitions/', "message[\@name='$messageName']/", 'part')); #An operation without parts is equivalent to a procedure call without parameters my $parts = $self->_wsdl_find($path); my @param=(); while (my $part=$parts->shift) { my @enc=$self->encode($part, \%data); push @param, @enc if (@enc); } my $methodEncoded=SOAP::Data->name( $inputMessageName )->attr( { "xmlns" => $callNamespace } ); unless ($self->{_WSDL}->{no_dispatch}) { return $self->SUPER::call($methodEncoded => @param,@{$data{soap_headers}}); } else { return $methodEncoded, @param; } } sub DESTROY { my $self=shift; $self->wsdl_cache_store(); return 1; } #a sort of autoload for the store-and-return methods sub _load_method{ my $method = shift; my $param = shift; no strict "refs"; *$method = sub{ my $self = shift; return (@_) ? $self->{_WSDL}->{$param} = shift : $self->{_WSDL}->{$param}?$self->{_WSDL}->{$param}:""}; } &_load_method( "no_dispatch" , "no_dispatch" ); &_load_method( "wsdl" , "wsdl" ); &_load_method( "wsdl_checkoccurs" , "checkoccurs" ); &_load_method( "servicename" , "servicename" ); &_load_method( "portname" , "portname" ); &_load_method( "wsdl_cache_directory" , "cache_directory" ); &_load_method( "wsdl_encoding" , "wsdl_encoding" ); &_load_method( "_wsdl_ns" , "namespaces" ); &_load_method( "_wsdl_xpath" , "xpath" ); &_load_method( "_wsdl_tns" , "tns" ); &_load_method( "_wsdl_tns_uri" , "tns_uri" ); &_load_method( "_wsdl_wsdlns" , "wsdlns" ); &_load_method( "_wsdl_schemans" , "schemans" ); &_load_method( "_wsdl_soapns" , "soapns" ); &_load_method( "_wsdl_wsdlExplicitNS" , "wsdl_wsdlExplicitNS" ); #each call to make finder returns a wrapped version of the xpath calls. #find, findvalue, findnodes and so on #the cache checking part is hidden here sub _make_finder(){ my ($method,$call) = @_; no strict "refs"; *$method = sub { my $self = shift; my ($path,$dieIfError) = @_; my $data = ""; $data = $self->{_WSDL}->{ cache }->{ $path }; unless ($data) { $data = $self->_wsdl_xpath->$call($path); $self->{_WSDL}->{ cache }->{ $path }= $data if ($self->{_WSDL}->{ caching }); } if(!$data){ $dieIfError and print("Error processing WSDL: can't find the path '$path'\n"),exit; } return $data; }; } &_make_finder("_wsdl_find","find"); &_make_finder("_wsdl_findvalue","findvalue"); &_make_finder("_wsdl_findnodes","findnodes"); sub wsdl_cache_store { my $self=shift; if ( ( $self->{ _WSDL }->{ cache_directory }) && ($self->{ _WSDL }->{ fileCache } ) ) { $self->{ _WSDL }->{ fileCache }->set( $self->wsdl, $self->{ _WSDL }->{ xpath } ); $self->{ _WSDL }->{ fileCache }->set( $self->wsdl."_cache", $self->{ _WSDL }->{ cache } ); } } sub wsdl_cache_init { my $self=shift; my $p=shift || {}; # get custom params - or none... my $cache = undef; eval { require Cache::FileCache; }; if ($@) { # warn about missing Cache::FileCache and set cache hadnle to undef warn "File caching is enabled, but you do not have the " . "Cache::FileCache module. Disabling Filesystem caching." if ($self->{_WSDL}->{ cache_directory }); $self->{_WSDL}->{ fileCache } = undef; } else { # initialize cache from custom parameters if given $p->{ cache_root } ||= $self->{_WSDL}->{ cache_directory }; $cache=Cache::FileCache->new( $p ); } $self->{_WSDL}->{ fileCache } = $cache; } sub encode { my $self=shift; my $part=shift; my $data=shift; my $schemaNS=$self->_wsdl_schemans ? $self->_wsdl_schemans .':' : ''; my $defaultNS=$self->{_WSDL}->{tns}; my %nsHash = reverse %{ $self->_wsdl_ns }; my %nsURIs = %{ $self->_wsdl_ns }; #TBD: Caching hook ? my $p={ name => $part->findvalue('@name')->value, type => $part->findvalue('@type')->value, element => $part->findvalue('@element')->value, xmlns => $part->findvalue('@targetNamespace')->value, nillable => $part->findvalue('@nillable')->value, }; my $result = undef; my $order = undef; my $typeName = undef; my $typeNS = ""; my $type = ""; my $default = $part->findvalue('@default')->value; if($default eq "0" or $default){ $p->{default} = $default; } if ( ($p->{type}) ) { if($p->{type}=~ m!($defaultNS):(.*)!){ $typeName = $2; #looking for type restrictions my $path= join ($self->_wsdl_wsdlns, '/', 'definitions/', "types/${schemaNS}schema/") ."${schemaNS}simpleType[\@name='$typeName']/" ."${schemaNS}restriction". "|". join ($self->_wsdl_wsdlns, '/', 'definitions/', "types/${schemaNS}schema/") ."${schemaNS}complexType[\@name='$typeName']/${schemaNS}complexContent/" ."${schemaNS}restriction"; #usually there is only one restriction #my $simpleType = $self->{_WSDL}->{xpath}->find($path)->shift; my $simpleType = $self->_wsdl_find($path,"")->shift; $simpleType and my $baseType = $simpleType->findvalue('@base')->value; #TBD: verify if the data matches the restrictions #-- #now we have (hopely) the base type my $wsdl_encoding = $self->wsdl_encoding(); if(defined ($baseType) and $baseType eq $wsdl_encoding."Array"){ #the type is an array restricted of something #-- $type=$baseType; $type=~s/^$schemaNS/xsd:/; #-- #if the basetype is Array then we ask: Array of what? #only complexTypes can be restricted to an Array my $path = join ($self->_wsdl_wsdlns, '/', 'definitions/', "types/${schemaNS}schema/") ."${schemaNS}complexType[\@name='$typeName']/${schemaNS}complexContent/" ."${schemaNS}restriction/". "${schemaNS}attribute"; my $simpleType = $self->{_WSDL}->{xpath}->find($path)->shift; $simpleType and $baseType = $simpleType->findvalue('@'.($self->_wsdl_wsdlExplicitNS).'arrayType')->value; #and now we have (eventually) the base type $baseType =~ s/..$//; } $baseType and $p->{type} = $baseType; } #Now, we have p, and p has a type #and the type of p is (eventually) extracted from some restriction #In order to get the correct type, now we have to handle the imported #namespaces. Some wsdl files have multiple schema declaration. #And each declaration can have her own imported namespaces. #Plainly: for each type check we have to check the schemas chain #in order to get the imported namespaces for *that* schema #- _type_ns contains the typical default namespaces $typeNS = $self->{_WSDL}->{_type_ns}; $p->{type} =~ /(.*:)(.*)/; if($1 ne $schemaNS){ #the type of p don't belongs to some default schema type #first we look after the schema who owns our type my $path= join ($self->_wsdl_wsdlns, '/', 'definitions/', "types/${schemaNS}schema/"). "*[\@name='$2']"; my $schema = $self->_wsdl_find("$path/..","")->shift; my $nodeSet = $self->_wsdl_find("$path/preceding-sibling::${schemaNS}import"); while (my $node = $nodeSet->shift){ no warnings; $typeNS .= "|".$self->_wsdl_ns->{$node->getAttribute('namespace')}; } #if the schema has a default nameSpace, it has to be added to the added to dhe typeNs list my $schemaTargetNS = $schema->findvalue('@targetNamespace'); if( $schemaTargetNS){ defined $self->_wsdl_ns->{$schemaTargetNS} and $typeNS.= "|".$self->_wsdl_ns->{$schemaTargetNS}; } } if ( $p->{type}=~m/^$typeNS/ ){#it's a simple type #symple types can have default values if(!exists $data->{ $p->{ name }} or !defined $data->{ $p->{ name }}){ if(defined $p->{default}){ $data->{ $p->{ name }} = $p->{default}; } } #-- this stuff is supposed to check the occurrences my $count=-1; if ($self->{_WSDL}->{checkoccurs}) { $count= exists $data->{ $p->{ name } } ? defined $data->{ $p->{ name } } ? ref $data->{ $p->{ name } } eq 'ARRAY' ? scalar @{ $data->{ $p->{ name } } } : 1 : 0 : 0 ; $order=$part->getParentNode()->getName; $p->{ minOccurs }=$part->findvalue('@minOccurs')->value; if ( (! defined($p->{ minOccurs }) ) || ( $p->{ minOccurs } eq "") ) { if ($order eq 'sequence') { $p->{ minOccurs }=1; }elsif ($order eq 'all'){ $p->{ minOccurs }=0; }else { $p->{ minOccurs }=0; } } $p->{ maxOccurs }=$part->findvalue('@maxOccurs')->value; if ( (! defined($p->{ maxOccurs }) ) || ($p->{ maxOccurs } eq "") ) { if ($order eq 'sequence') { $p->{ maxOccurs }=1 } elsif ($order eq 'all') { $p->{ maxOccurs }=1 } else { $p->{ maxOccurs }=undef } } $p->{ maxOccurs } = undef if (defined($p->{ maxOccurs }) && $p->{ maxOccurs } eq 'unbounded' ); } # check for ocurrence ? # acceptable number of value ? if ( (! $self->{_WSDL}->{checkoccurs} ) || ( ( $p->{ minOccurs } <=$count ) || ($p->{ nillable } eq "true") ) && ( ( !defined($p->{ maxOccurs }) ) || ($count <= $p->{ maxOccurs }) ) ) { # not nillable # empty value ( ! $p->{ nillable } ) && ( ( ! (exists $data->{ $p->{ name } }) ) || (! (defined $data->{ $p->{ name } }) ) ) && do { return (); }; # some value # SOAP::Lite uses the "xsd" prefix for specifying schema NS my $type=$p->{ type }; $type=~s/^$schemaNS/xsd:/; $result=SOAP::Data->new( name => $p->{ name } ); $result->type( $type ) if ($self->autotype); $result->attr( { xmlns => $p->{ xmlns } } ) if $p->{ xmlns }; return ($result->value( $data->{ $p->{ name } } ) ); } else { no warnings; die "illegal number of elements ($count, min: ".$p->{ minOccurs } .", max: .".$p->{ maxOccurs }.") for element '$p->{ name }' (may be sub-element) "; } } else { ### must be a complex type ### get complex type my $type=$p->{ type }; $type=~s/^($defaultNS)\://; # $type=~s/^(.+?\:)?//; my $path; { no warnings; $path='/'.$self->_wsdl_wsdlns.'definitions/' .$self->_wsdl_wsdlns."types/${schemaNS}schema/" ."${schemaNS}complexType[\@name='$type']" .'|' .'/'.$self->_wsdl_wsdlns.'definitions/' .$self->_wsdl_wsdlns."types/schema[\@xmlns='". $nsHash{$schemaNS} ."' and \@targetNameSpace = '". $nsHash{$1}."' ]/" ."complexType[\@name='$type']" ; }; my $complexType = $self->_wsdl_find($path,"dieIfError")->shift; ### handles arrays of complex types ### TBD: check for min /max number of elements if (ref $data->{ $p->{ name } } eq 'ARRAY') { #$data says: look, in this position I have for you an array of stuff my @resultArray=(); foreach my $subdata( @{ $data->{ $p->{ name } } }) { $result = SOAP::Data->new( name => $p->{ name } ); $result->type( $type ) if ($self->autotype); $result->attr( { xmlns => $p->{ xmlns } } ) if $p->{ xmlns }; my $value = $self->_encodeComplexType($complexType, $subdata ); push @resultArray, $result->value( $value ) if (defined($value) ); } return (@resultArray) ? @resultArray : (); } else { $result=SOAP::Data->new( name => $p->{ name } ); #.Net compatibility $result->type( $type ) if ($self->autotype); $result->attr( { xmlns => $p->{ xmlns } } ) if $p->{ xmlns }; my $value; # if($data->{ $p->{ name } }){#we have some data to encode $value = $self->_encodeComplexType($complexType, $data->{ $p->{ name } } ) ; }else{ $p->{ minOccurs } = $part->findvalue('@minOccurs')->value; if($p->{ minOccurs } ne '' and $p->{ minOccurs } > 0){ #this element is required, but we have no data to encode #it's an error die "illegal number of elements (0, min: ".$p->{ minOccurs } .", for element '$p->{ name }' (may be sub-element) "; } } return () unless ( defined($value) ); return ($result->value( $value)); } } } elsif ($p->{ element } ) { #if p has no type, then must be an an element (or an error) #which one? my $elementPath=$p->{element}; $elementPath=~s/^$defaultNS\://; # there are two ways how schema are usually defined my $path= '/'.$self->_wsdl_wsdlns.'definitions/' .$self->_wsdl_wsdlns.'types/' .$schemaNS.'schema/' .$schemaNS.'element[@name="'.$elementPath.'"]/' .$schemaNS.'complexType/' .'descendant::'.$schemaNS.'element'; my $elements = $self->_wsdl_findnodes($path,"dieIfError"); my @resultArray=(); while (my $e=$elements->shift) { my @enc; @enc=$self->encode($e, $data); push @resultArray, @enc if (@enc); } return (@resultArray) ? @resultArray : (); } else { #typical case when coping with .Net generated wsdl files ($p->{name} eq "anyType") and print "Oops, have you defined an ArrayOfAnyType without the Type? Try type=[namespace]:anyType\n"; die "illegal part definition\n"; } return (); # if we got here, something went wrong... } sub _encodeComplexType { my $self=shift; my $complexType=shift; my $data = shift; my @result = (); my $schemaNS=$self->_wsdl_schemans ? $self->_wsdl_schemans .':' : ''; my $defaultNS=$self->_wsdl_tns; my %nsHash = reverse %{ $self->_wsdl_ns }; #-- first we encode the local elements .... my $path='.//'.$schemaNS.'element'; my $elements=$complexType->find($path); while (my $e=$elements->shift) { my @enc; @enc=$self->encode($e, $data); push @result, @enc if (@enc); } my $extension = undef; ### check for extension #%baseList avoids loops while looking at the extensions chain, just a flag holder my %baseList = (); #... and then we cope with the chain of extensions while ($extension=$complexType->find('.//'.$schemaNS.'extension')->shift) { ### pull in extension base my $base=$extension->findvalue('@base'); $base=~s/^$defaultNS\://; $base=~s/^(.+?\:)//; #- last if ($baseList{$base}); #got a loop $baseList{$base} = 1; #- my $path; { no warnings; # there are two ways how schema are usually defined $path='/'.$self->_wsdl_wsdlns.'definitions/' .$self->_wsdl_wsdlns."types/".$schemaNS."schema/" .$schemaNS."complexType[\@name='$base']" .'|' .'/'.$self->_wsdl_wsdlns.'definitions/' .$self->_wsdl_wsdlns."types/schema[\@xmlns='" .$nsHash{$schemaNS} ."' and \@targetNameSpace = '". $nsHash{$1}."' ]/" ."complexType[\@name='$base']"; } $complexType = $self->_wsdl_find($path,"dieIfError")->shift; #now we can find the elements $path = ".//".$schemaNS."element|.//element"; my $elements = $complexType->find($path) || die "Error processing WSDL: '$path' not found"; while (my $e=$elements->shift) { my @enc; @enc=$self->encode($e, $data); push @result, @enc if (@enc); } } return (@result) ? \SOAP::Data->value(@result) : (); } 1; __END__ =pod =head1 NAME SOAP::WSDL =head1 SYNOPSIS use SOAP::WSDL; my $soap = SOAP::WSDL->new( wsdl => 'http://server.com/ws.wsdl' ); $soap->wsdlinit(); $soap->servicename( 'myservice' ); $soap->portname( 'myport' ); my $som = $soap->call( 'method' => ( name => 'value' , name => 'value' ) ); =head1 DESCRIPTION This is a new version of SOAP::WSDL, mainly based on the work of Giovanni S Fois. The calling interface has changed between 1.20 and 1.21, so existing code using this module needs to be changed, too. See L below. SOAP::WSDL provides decent WSDL support for SOAP::Lite. It is built as a add-on to SOAP::Lite, and will sit on top of it, forwarding all the actual request-response to SOAP::Lite - somewhat like a pre-processor. WSDL support means that you don't have to deal with those bitchy namespaces some web services set on each and every method call parameter. It also means an end to that nasty SOAP::Data->name( 'Name' )->value( SOAP::Data->name( 'Sub-Name')->value( 'Subvalue' ) ); encoding of complex data. (Another solution for this problem is just iterating recursively over your data. But that doesn't work if you need more information [e.g. namespaces etc] than just your data to encode your parameters). And it means that you can use ordinary hashes for your parameters - the encording order will be derived from the WSDL and not from your (unordered) data, thus the problem of unordered perl-hashes and WSDL EsequenceE definitions is solved, too. (Another solution for the ordering problem is tying your hash to a class that provides ordered hashes - Tie::IxHash is one of them). =head2 Why should I use this ? SOAP::WSDL eases life for webservice developers who have to communicate with lots of different web services using a reasonable big number of method calls. If you just want to call a hand full of methods of one web service, take SOAP::Lite's stubmaker and modify the stuff by hand if it doesn't work right from the start. The overhead SOAP::WSDL imposes on your calls is not worth the time saving. If you need to access many web services offering zillions of methods to you, this module should be your choice. It automatically encodes your perl data structures correctly, based on the service's WSDL description, handling even those complex types SOAP::Lite can't cope with. SOAP::WSDL also eliminates most perl E-E .NET interoperability problems by qualifying method and parameters as they are specified in the WSDL definition. =head1 USAGE my $soap=SOAP::WSDL->new( wsdl => 'http://server.com/ws.wsdl' ); # or my $soap=SOAP::WSDL->new() $soap->wsdl('http://server.com/ws.wsdl'); # or # without dispatching calls to the WebService # # useful for testing my $soap=SOAP::WSDL->new( wsdl => 'http://server.com/ws.wsdl', no_dispatch => 1 ); # never forget to call this !in order to start the parsing procedure $soap->wsdlinit(); # with caching enabled:don't forget the cache directory $soap->wsdlinit( caching => 1, cache_directory =>"/tmp/cachedir"); # optional, set to a false value if you don't want your # soap message elements to be typed $soap->autotype(0); # before calling you *must* specify which service use and which port call # you must call it after wsdlinit # you can call it multiple times, one for each call $soap->servicename('myservice'); $soap->portname('myport'); my $som=$soap->call( 'method' , name => 'value' , name => 'value' ); # with the method overloaded (got it from the standard) my $som=$soap->call( 'method' , wsdl_input_name => unique_input_message_name name => 'value' , name => 'value' ); # with headers (see the SOAP documentation) #first define your headers @header = (SOAP::Header->name("FirstHeader")->value("FirstValue"), SOAP::Header->name("SecontHeader")->value("SecondValue")); #and then do the call. please note the backslash my $som=$soap->call( 'method' , name => 'value' , name => 'value' , "soap_headers",\@header); =head1 How it works SOAP::WSDL takes the wsdl file specified and looks up the service and the specified port. On calling a SOAP method, it looks up the message encoding and wraps all the stuff around your data accordingly. Most pre-processing is done in I, the rest is done in I, which overrides the same method from SOAP::Lite. =head2 wsdlinit SOAP::WSDL loads the wsdl file specified by the wsdl parameter / call using SOAP::Lite's schema method. It sets up a XPath object of that wsdl file, and subsequently queries it for namespaces, service, and port elements. SOAP::WSDL uses the service and the port specified by the calling script. If you want to chose a different one, you can specify the service by calling $soap->servicename('ServiceToUse'); =head2 call The call method examines the wsdl file to find out how to encode the SOAP message for your method. Lookups are done in real-time using XPath, so this incorporates a small delay to your calls (see L below. The SOAP message will include the types for each element, unless you have set autotype to a false value by calling $soap->autotype(0); After wrapping your call into what is appropriate, SOAP::WSDL uses the I method from SOAP::Lite to dispatch your call. call takes the method name as first argument, and the parameters passed to that method as following arguments. B $som=$soap->call( "SomeMethod" => "test" => "testvalue" ); $som=$soap->call( "SomeMethod" => %args ); =head1 Caching SOAP::WSDL uses a two-stage caching mechanism to achieve best performance. First, there's a pretty simple caching mechanisms for storing XPath query results. They are just stored in a hash with the XPath path as key (until recently, only results of "find" or "findnodes" are cached). I did not use the obvious L or L module here, because these use L to store complex objects and thus incorporate a performance loss heavier than using no cache at all. Second, the XPath object and the XPath results cache are be stored on disk using the L implementation. A filesystem cache is only used if you 1) enable caching 2) set wsdl_cache_directory The cache directory must be, of course, read- and writeable. XPath result caching doubles performance, but increases memory consumption - if you lack of memory, you should not enable caching (disabled by default). Filesystem caching triples performance for wsdlinit and doubles performance for the first method call. The file system cache is written to disk when the SOAP::WSDL object is destroyed. It may be written to disk any time by calling the L method Using both filesystem and in-memory caching is recommended for best performance and smallest startup costs. =head2 Sharing cache between applications Sharing a file system cache among applications accessing the same web service is generally possible, but may under some circumstances reduce performance, and under some special circumstances even lead to errors. This is due to the cache key algorithm used. SOAP::WSDL uses the SOAP endpoint URL to store the XML::XPath object of the wsdl file. In the rare case of a web service listening on one particular endpoint (URL) but using more than one WSDL definition, this may lead to errors when applications using SOAP::WSDL share a file system cache. SOAP::WSDL stores the XPath results in-memory-cache in the filesystem cache, using the key of the wsdl file with C<_cache> appended. Two applications sharing the file system cache and accessing different methods of one web service could overwrite each others in-memory-caches when dumping the XPath results to disk, resulting in a slight performance drawback (even though this only happens in the rare case of one app being started before the other one has had a chance to write its cache to disk). =head2 Controlling the file system cache If you want full controll over the file system cache, you can use wsdl_init_cash to initialize it. wsdl_init_cash will take the same parameters as Cache::FileCache->new(). See L and L for details. =head2 Notes If you plan to write your own caching implementation, you should consider the following: The XPath results cache must not survive the XPath object SOAP::WSDL uses to store the WSDL file in (this could cause memory holes - see L for details). This never happens during normal usage - but note that you have been warned before trying to store and re-read SOAP::WSDL's internal cache. =head1 Methods =over 4 =item call $soap->call($method, %data); See above. call will die if it can't find required elements in the WSDL file or if your data doesn't meet the WSDL definition's requirements, so you might want to eval{} it. On death, $@ will (hopefully) contain some error message like Error processing WSDL: no element found to give you a hint about what went wrong. =item no_dispatch Gets/Sets the I flag. If no_dispatch is set to true value, SOAP::WSDL will not dispatch your calls to a remote server but return the SOAP::SOM object containing the call instead. Useful for testing / debugging =item encode # this is how call uses encode # $xpath contains a XPath object of the wsdl document my $def=$xpath->find("/definitions")->shift; my $parts=$def->find("//message[\@name='$messageName']/part"); my @param=(); while (my $part=$parts->shift) { my $enc=$self->encode($part, \%data); push @param, $enc if defined $enc; } Does the actual encoding. Expects a XPath::NodeSet as first, a hashref containing your data as second parameter. The XPath nodeset must be a node specifying a WSDL message part. You won't need to call I unless you plan to override I or want to write a new SOAP server implementation. =item servicename $soap->servicename('Service1'); Use this to specify a service by name. Your wsdl is the definition of a service, so you has to declare his name You can call it before each method call. =item portname $soap->portname('Port1'); Your service can have one or many ports attached to it. Each port has some operation defined in it trough a binding. You have to know in which porto of your service is defined the function you are calling. You can call it before each method call. =item wsdl $soap->wsdl('http://my.web.service.com/wsdl'); Use this to specify the WSDL file to use. Must be a valid (and accessible !) url. You must call this before calling L. For time saving's sake, this should be a local file - you never know how much time your WebService needs for delivering a wsdl file. =item wsdlinit $soap->wsdlinit( caching => 1, cache_directory => '/tmp/cache' ); Initializes the WSDL document for usage. wsdlinit will die if it can't set up the WSDL file properly, so you might want to eval{} it. On death, $@ will (hopefully) contain some error message like Error processing WSDL: no element found to give you a hint about what went wrong. wsdlinit will accept a hash of parameters with the following keys: =item * wsdl_checkoccurs Configuration method. Enables/disables checks for correct number of occurences of elements in WSDL types. The default is 1 (on). Turning off occurance number checking results in a sligt performance gain. To turn off checking for correct number of elements, call $soap->wsdl_checkoccurs(0); =item * wsdl_encoding Get/set encoding style for the SOAP call. =over 8 =item * caching enables caching is set to a true value =item * cache_directory enables filesystem caching (in the directory specified). The directory given must be existant, read- and writeable. =back =item wsdl_cache_directory $soap->wsdl_cache_directory( '/tmp/cache' ); Sets the directory used for filesystem caching and enables filesystem caching. Passing the I parameter to wsdlinit has the same effect. =item wsdl_cache_store $soap->wsdl_cache_store(); Stores the content of the in-memory-cache (and the XML::XPath representation of the WSDL file) to disk. This will not have any effect if cache_directory is not set. =item * wsdl_cache_init Initialize the WSDL file cache. Normally called from wsdlinit. For custom cache initailization, you may pass the same parameters as to Cache::FileCache->new(). =back =head1 Notes =head2 Why another SOAP module ? SOAP::Lite provides only some rudimentary WSDL support. This lack is not just something unimplemented, but an offspring of the SOAP::Schema class design. SOAP::Schema uses some complicated format to store XML Schema information (mostly a big hashref, containing arrays of SOAP::Data and a SOAP::Parser-derived object). This data structure makes it pretty hard to improve SOAP::Lite's WSDL support. SOAP::WSDL uses XPath for processing WSDL. XPath is a query language standard for XML, and usually a good choice for XML transformations or XML template processing (and what else is WSDL-based en-/decoding ?). Besides, there's an excellent XPath module (L) available from CPAN, and as SOAP::Lite uses XPath to access elements in SOAP::SOM objects, this seems like a natural choice. Fiddling the kind of WSDL support implemented here into SOAP::Lite would mean a larger set of changes, so I decided to build something to use as add-on. =head2 Memory consumption and performance SOAP::WSDL uses around twice the memory (or even more) SOAP::Lite uses for the same task (but remember: SOAP::WSDL does things for you SOAP::Lite can't). It imposes a slight delay for initialization, and for every SOAP method call, too. On my 1.4 GHz Pentium mobile notebook, the init delay with a simple WSDL file (containing just one operation and some complex types and elements) was around 50 ms, the delay for the first call around 25 ms and for subsequent calls to the same method around 7 ms without and around 6 ms with XPath result caching (on caching, see above). XML::XPath must do some caching, too - don't know where else the speedup should come from. Calling a method of a more complex WSDL file (defining around 10 methods and numerous complex types on around 500 lines of XML), the delay for the first call was around 100 ms for the first and 70 ms for subsequent method calls. wsdlinit took around 150 ms to process the stuff. With XPath result caching enabled, all but the first call take around 35 ms. Using SOAP::WSDL on an idiotically complex WSDL file with just one method, but around 100 parameters for that method, mostly made up by extensions of complex types (the heaviest XPath operation) takes around 1.2 s for the first call (0.9 with caching) and around 830 ms for subsequent calls (arount 570 ms with caching). The actual performance loss compared to SOAP::Lite should be around 10 % less than the values above - SOAP::Lite encodes the data for you, too (or you do it yourself) - and encoding in SOAP::WSDL is already covered by the pre-call delay time mentioned above. If you have lots of WebService methods and call each of them from time to time, this delay should not affect your perfomance too much. If you have just one method and keep calling it ever & ever again, you should cosider hardcoding your data encoding (maybe even with hardcoded XML templates - yes, this may be a BIG speedup). =head1 CAVEATS =head2 API change between 1.20 and 1.21 Giovanni S. Fois has implemented a new calling convention, which allows to specify the port type used by SOAP::WSDL. While this allows greater flexibillity (and helps around the still missing bindings support), the following lines have to be added to existing code: $soap->servicename( $servicename); $soap->portname( $porttype ); Both lines must appear after calling $soap->wsdlinit(); =head2 API change between 1.13 and 1.14 The SOAP::WSDL API changed significantly between versions 1.13 and 1.14. From 1.14 on, B expects the following arguments: method name as scalar first, method parameters as hash following. The B no longer recognizes the I option - to get the same behaviour, pass C 1> to I or call $soap->no_dispatch(1); =head2 Unstable interface This is alpha software - everything may (and most things will) change. But you don't have to be afraid too much - at least the I synopsis should be stable from 1.14 on, and that is the part you'll use most frequently. =head1 BUGS =over =item * Arrays of complex types are not checked for the correct number of elements Arrays of complex types are just encoded and not checked for correctness etc. I don't know if I do this right yet, but output looks good. However, they are not checked for the correct number of element (does the SOAP spec say how to specify this ?). =item * +trace (and other SOAP::Lite flags) don't work This may be an issue with older versions of the base module (before 2.?), or with activestate's activeperl, which do not call the base modules I method with the flags supplied to the parent. There's a simple workaround: use SOAP::WSDL; import SOAP::Lite +trace; =item * nothing else known But I'm sure there are some serious bugs lurking around somewhere. =back =head1 TODO =over =item Allow use of alternative XPath implementations XML::XPath is a great module, but it's not a race-winning one. XML::LibXML offers a promising-looking XPath interface. SOAP::WSDL should support both, defaulting to the faster one, and leaving the final choice to the user. =back =head1 CHANGES See CHANGES file. =head1 COPYRIGHT This library is free software, you can distribute / modify it under the same terms as perl itself. =head1 AUTHOR Martin Kutter Giovanni S. Fois giovannisfois@tiscali.it =cut