Passing parameter to a webservice via createObject or CFINVOKE - web-services

Question

I usually consume SOAP webservices with CFHTTP and post the XML as a HTTP parameter. However, this time I am trying to consume a webservice with createObject, but when I pass the XML as an argument to the webservice ws.someMethod(args);, it fails. I tried using a struct to hold the parameter values, but that also did not work. As such, how do one pass the parameters? The partial WSDL is below
<xs:element name="ORDER">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Header" type="schemaOne:HeaderType"/>
<xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Detail" type="schemaOne:DetailType"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:complexType name="DetailType">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DTORDN"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DTRCID"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DTPRT"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DTQTY"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DTNTU"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
<xs:complexType name="HeaderType">
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSORDN"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSRCID"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBFNM"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBLNM"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="schemaOne:DSBENT"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBAD1"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="schemaOne:DSBAD2"/>
<xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="schemaOne:DSBAD3"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBAD4"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBSTT"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBZIP"/>
<xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBCNT"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
Here's the struct I've constructed.
<cfscript>
ORDER = {};
ORDER.Header = {};
ORDER.Detail = {};
ORDER.Header.DSORDN = '251716';
ORDER.Header.DSRCID = 'H';
ORDER.Header.DSBFNM = 'Joe';
ORDER.Header.DSBLNM = 'Smith';
ORDER.Header.DSBAD1 = '4997 County Road';
ORDER.Header.DSBAD4 = 'Springfield';
ORDER.Header.DSBSTT = 'MO';
ORDER.Header.DSBZIP = '49657';
ORDER.Header.DSBCNT = 'USA';
ORDER.Detail.DTORDN = '251716';
ORDER.Detail.DTRCID = 'D';
ORDER.Detail.DTPRT = '0300604';
ORDER.Detail.DTQTY = '0000000000001';
ORDER.Detail.DTNTU = '00000009.9900';
</cfscript>

Answer 1

i am working with unit tests at the moment and where trying to pass an xml file to my Webservice. I just saved the xml Files i needed inside external files and read them with "FileRead" inside cfscript. This is how i did it
<cfscript>
input = FileRead("http.....");
mycomponent = createObject("component", "component.beginning.from.root");
mycomponent.methodName(input);
</cfscript>
but i had to change my code because before i parsed the content of the HttpRequest to xml and where looking for the expected elements. Now i use the incoming file and look immediately for the elements i want instead of parsing because its already xml
<cfset var body = xmlsearch(arguments.input, "//soapenv:body")[1] />
if you're interested in the code of my webservice just look here

Answer 2

You have to consume SOAP web services that expect complex data type with CFC that mirrors the expected structure instead of passing the XML. See this