Calling a SOAP Web Service Function - web-services

Question

I am trying to use a web service to save data. The web service URL is something like:
http://example.com/webservice1/order.asmx
When I want to save an order, I will send a SOAP Envelope and have to call the function saveorder. How can I specify in ColdFusion that I want to call this function?

Answer 1

You'll have to use cfhttp and build up your SOAP Envelope and pass it through with your cfhttp request.
This is something I wrote some time ago:
<cfscript>
savecontent variable="local.sSoap" {
WriteOutput("
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'>
<soap:Body>
#arguments.sData#
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
");
}
</cfscript>
<cfhttp url="https://apiconnector.com/API.asmx" method="post" result="httpResponse">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="http://apiconnector.com/#arguments.sMethod#"/>
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="accept-encoding" value="no-compression"/>
<cfhttpparam type="xml" value="#trim( local.sSOAP )#"/>
</cfhttp>
You'll obviously have to make changes to suit your own needs, but the gist is there.