soap_call_<something> compilation error: "identifier not found" - c++

I am trying to use gsoap 2.8 to connect a C++ plugin to several web services.
When I used it to connect to single service I got, among other, a function soap_call_KitPro_GetDefectsByDateRange()
Now that I have created a wsdl file containing several web services that my plugin should connect to, I see no functions starting with soap_call_* at all.
What may be the reason? what should I check?
Is there any other way to actually activate the connection to the service I need?
Thanks!

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Codename One - how to add function to existing web service

with the CN1 web service wizard, I created a working server project that I run on my local Tomcat installation. in addition, the CN1 project has the webserviceproxy.java class that I use to call the web services. so far so good.
During development, there now is the need to create a new function within the webservice that I did not previously think of. So instead of recreating my whole server using the wizard, I thought I simply add some code into the files that were created.
On the client side:
WebServiceProxy.java - add WebServiceProxyCall.WSDefinition and add the function call in sync and async fashion. the arguments and return type matches the definition.
On the server side:
WebServiceProxyServer.java
- add the function definition with the required functionality (this works as I have it debugged it locally on the server side).
CN1WebServiceServlet.java - add definition and add the if statement matching the service name.
when debugging the server and calling the service from the client, it does not reach the breakpoint of the doPost method, so something is terribly off.
What else do I need to change when manually adding a new webservice function? Or is this so complicated that I should better use the web service wizard, create the new server from scratch and copy all the other functionality from my old server to the new one?
Thanks and best regards
There is currently no way to do this seamlessly since the generated protocol is binary for fastest protocol performance.
The solution is to generate a new class we usually use the notion V2, V3 onward. That way the first webservice is still 100% compatible to devices in production and you can create a new "more correct" protocol for the newer devices. The implementation classes can derive from one another to increase code reuse.

How can I set TTL for DNS Caching with Delphi SOAP webservices?

I have a Delphi Application accessing a web service on the Internet.
The provider of said service has now changed to a cloud based infrastructure and came to me with the following request:
"Please configure networkaddress.cache.ttl in the file $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/java.security as follows: networkaddress.cache.ttl=60"
Accordung to the web service provider this is necessary for the service to deliver correct results under all circumstances.
He has checked the connection of my appication and it appears to him that once started it sticks with the same IP-address.
Restarting the Applications did solve this for once.
I have been importing the WSDL using the wizard provided by the IDE so I am using an instance of THTTPRIO to access the web service.
The THTTPRIO-instance is created in FormCreate() of the main form.
The Application is running 24/7 and accesses several methods of the web service regularly.
Does the Delphi SOAP framwork use DNS caching at all?
If yes, is there a similar property like networkaddress.cache.ttl in Java?
Is there a good workaround for the issue (e.g. reinstancing the wrapper class just before every call to the service instead of only once in FormCreate)?
EDIT:
The Application is compiled using Delphi 10.1. Berlin (originally developed with Delphi XE7). It is running on an Windows 7 machine.
Have you found DnsFlushResolverCache?
In order to clear DNS resolver cache like what IPCONFIG /flushdns
does, programmatically:
Requires dnsapi.dll which requires Win2000 or later. As usual, MS does
not document the API
Source: http://brannockdevice.blogspot.de/2006/04/winxp-flushing-dns-programatically.html
I've been digging into the source code a little and I believe I found an answer.
The Delphi SOAP framwork doesn't seem to do any DNS caching on its own.
It's just that the connection to the web service is done with the first request via the Windows InternetConnect() function and the resulting handle ist stored and reused from then on.
Here's a little more background information on this:
The THTTPRIO class communicates with the web service through an instance of THTTPReqResp:
property HTTPWebNode: THTTPReqResp read GetHTTPWebNode write SetHTTPWebNode;
THTTPReqResp calls the Connect() method before every request which again uses a WinApi function to estabish a connection and stores the resulting handle in a field:
FInetConnect := InternetConnect(FInetRoot, PChar(FURLHost), FURLPort, PChar(FUserName), PChar(FPassword), INTERNET_SERVICE_HTTP, 0, NativeUInt(Self));
But - the Connect() method only does this if it is not already connected - the following code is found just at the beginning of the Connect() method:
if (FConnected) then
Exit;
By doing so the connection just stays open from the first request on.
Following requests are simply using the stored handle from InetConnect.
For my problem with the cloud service it should be sufficient to create my own instance of THTTPRIO and pass it to the function returning the web service interface:
RIO := THTTPRIO.Create(nil);
FM := GetFleetManagerAPISoap(FALSE, '', RIO);
Then I will just disconnect each time before calling any web service function:
RIO.HTTPWebNode.Connect(FALSE);
In theory that should finally lead to a fresh connection via InternetConnect() and hopefully my problem will be solved.
(Still have to test this, though)
I think that you can set it globally in Windows registry.
Open regedit.exe and navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters.
In the right pane, add the following value:
Name: DefaultTTL,
Type: REG_DWORD,
Valid Range: 1-255
Restar the computer.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc957530.aspx

C++: Application architecture with API

My application it's C++ service. And I need to add API for it. I consider that it will be XML/JSON RPC based API. How should I design a program for reusing existing code base and provide API.
I see following options:
My application will work via RPC layer. Seems that it's bad option due to low performance;
Before starting of service I will fork it and run my application in the first process and RPC server in the second; Seems ok, but how to restart RPC server in this case?
I guess there is a well known pattern for such issues.
Thanks.
If you can use a web server, then the FastCGI concept might be what you're looking for. One of the main duties of FastCGI is to allow you to put on a public API (from the web server) that internally calls the "real" application, in your case the resident C++ service. So all work is done at the web server to create the public API using any technology you wish, and little or no code changes done in your C++ service.

Use WSRR web service outside a web application

I have a web application mostly written by others based on JSF 2, Mybatis, Spring 3 and tens of other libraries, running on Weblogic, it works and now I have to create a distinct command line application to schedule the running of some tasks already present in the web app.
I added a class with a main method in order to maintain only one codebase with a different build process to generate an executable JAR instead of a WAR. Using Spring's ClassPathXmlApplicationContext I managed to recreate the web application context, access the database beans and use them, but I'm stuck with a WSRR call which fails.
The commands:
GraphQuery graphQuery =
(GraphQuery)DataFactory.INSTANCE.create(TypeConstants.SR_URI, TypeConstants.TYPE_GRAPHQUERY);
graphQuery.setQueryExpression("/WSRR/GenericObject[#CFT_APPLIC='DS" + param + "']");
fail with a long stack, having the root exception
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.ResourceBundle.getBundle(ResourceBundle.java:960)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.resources.ProjectResourceBundle$Context.loadBundle(ProjectResourceBundle.java:474)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.resources.ProjectResourceBundle.getBundle(ProjectResourceBundle.java:372)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.resources.ProjectResourceBundle.getBundle(ProjectResourceBundle.java:341)
at com.ibm.ws.webservices.engine.resources.MessagesConstants.<clinit>(MessagesConstants.java:93)
I found that some classes and configurations are provided at runtime by the application server, and have no idea about how to replace them outside the application server.
The IBM redbook says (pages 120-121) that is possible to access a web service using a Java client, but requires a suitable EJB runtime.
How can I replicate needed EJB parameters outside the application server? I tried to use the Eclipse debugger to follow the execution of the application and extract them, but it fails, probably because the classes are loaded by Weblogic classloader.

VMware Server 2.0 - The VMware Infrastructure Web Service not responding

After installing VMware Server I get the following error when I try to access the VMware web-based server manager:
The VMware Infrastructure Web Service
at "http://localhost:8222/sdk" is not
responding
Go into the services manager and check that the 'VMware Host Agent' service is running. If not, then start it and then try browsing to the site again.
Vmware Hostd was not working for me either.
However, in trying to start the service it stopped automatically. Typically when this happens it is because there is an error in your config.xml.
C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\config.xml
In my case, checking the logs at:
C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Server
showed it erroring out after "Trying hostsvc".
Searching the config.xml for hostsvc showed references to several things, the first thing was the datastore. In checking my datastores.xml file:
C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Server\hostd\datastores.xml .
I found it full of all sorts of random characters instead of a properly formed XML document.
Renaming datastores.xml to datastorex.xml.bad allowed me to start the service. At which point I had to add back my datastores through the GUI.
Hopefully this will help someone else out. I did not find any other references in Google to this issue.
Try accessing via "http://localhost:8222" without the /sdk. You can also try the secure site via "https://localhost:8333".