How to invoke this webservice method? - web-services

Question

I can't wrap my mind around invoking a simple method of 3rd-party service. Here's the chunk of WSDL for this method:
<s:element name="PushRequest">
<s:complexType>
<s:sequence>
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="LocationCode" type="s:string"/>
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="PushRequestXml" type="s:string"/>
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="PassPhrase" type="s:string"/>
</s:sequence>
</s:complexType>
</s:element>
This is a sample SOAP 1.1 request, generated by web-service:
<?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>
<PushRequest xmlns="http://xxxx.yyyy.com/">
<LocationCode>string</LocationCode>
<PushRequestXml>string</PushRequestXml>
<PassPhrase>string</PassPhrase>
</PushRequest>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
First I thought that this is one argument of complex type, so I've tried this:
ws = CreateObject("webservice", serviceURL);
push = {};
push["LocationCode"] = "xxx";
push["PushRequestXml"] = "yyy";
push["PassPhrase"] = "zzz";
responseXML = ws.PushRequest(push);
But got usual CF response Web service operation PushRequest with parameters {{PushRequestXml={yyy},LocationCode={xxx},PassPhrase={zzz}}} cannot be found..
Next I thought that maybe this is not a complex argument (at least it doesn't have a name attribute in XML), but three different arguments:
ws = CreateObject("webservice", serviceURL);
responseXML = ws.PushRequest(LocationCode = "xxx", PushRequestXml = "yyy", PassPhrase = "zzz");
Result is the same: Web service operation PushRequest with parameters {PushRequestXml={{PushRequestXml, yyy}},LocationCode={{LocationCode, xxx}},PassPhrase={{PassPhrase, zzz}}} cannot be found.
Any ideas how this should be handled? Please tell if more information needed.
I'm using ACF9, webservice is provided by ASP.net
Thanks.

Answer 1

I've ended up with using plain POST-ing raw XML to the web-service and parsing response XML manually, as proposed in this blog post.
Also I've tried wsdl2java as proposed in 3rd part of that blog series, but it did not help me -- method looked exactly as expected previously:
public java.lang.String pushRequest(java.lang.String locationCode, java.lang.String pushRequestXml, java.lang.String passPhrase) throws java.rmi.RemoteException;
As a result, I haven't found the applicable way for use cfinvoke for my webservice.
So, my current request code looks as follows:
<cfsavecontent variable="SOAPXML">
<cfoutput>
<?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>
<PushRequest xmlns="http://serviceurl.com/">
<LocationCode>#LocationCode#</LocationCode>
<PushRequestXml>#XMLFormat(Trim(PushRequestXml))#</PushRequestXml>
<PassPhrase>#PassPhrase#</PassPhrase>
</PushRequest>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
</cfoutput>
</cfsavecontent>
<cfhttp method="post" url="#ServiceURL#">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="http://serviceurl.com/PushRequest" />
<cfhttpparam type="xml" value="#Trim(SOAPXML)#" />
</cfhttp>
Service returns XML, so handling it is not a problem.

Answer 2

Have u tried using CFBuilder, and paste in the serviceURL into Services Browser (Show Web Services -> +), and then right click that to generate the correct createObject() call?

Answer 3

I'm no guru on WSDL, but I seem to remember that auto generated WSDL's usually suffix the method with either 'Request' or 'Response', so you may need to simply call 'Push' rather than 'PushRequest'.
ws = CreateObject("webservice", serviceURL);
push = {};
push["LocationCode"] = "xxx";
push["PushRequestXml"] = "yyy";
push["PassPhrase"] = "zzz";
responseXML = ws.Push(push);
worth a shot.