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NAME

       SOAP::WSDL::Client - SOAP::WSDL's SOAP Client

SYNOPSIS

        use SOAP::WSDL::Client;
        my $soap = SOAP::WSDL::Client->new({
            proxy => 'http://www.example.org/webservice/test'
        });
        $soap->call( \%method, $body, $header);

METHODS

   call
        $soap->call( \%method, \@parts );

       %method is a hash with the following keys:

        Name           Description
        ----------------------------------------------------
        operation      operation name
        soap_action    SOAPAction HTTP header to use
        style          Operation style. One of (document|rpc)
        use            SOAP body encoding. One of (literal|encoded)

       The style and use keys have no influence yet.

       @parts is a list containing the elements of the message parts.

       For backward compatibility, call may also be called as below:

        $soap->call( $method, \@parts );

       In this case, $method is the SOAP operation name, and the SOAPAction header is guessed
       from the first part's namespace and the operation name (which is mostly correct, but may
       fail). Operation style and body encoding are assumed to be document/literal

   Configuration methods
       outputxml

        $soap->outputxml(1);

       When set, call() returns the raw XML of the SOAP Envelope.

       set_content_type

        $soap->set_content_type('application/xml; charset: utf8');

       Sets the content type and character encoding.

       You probably should not use a character encoding different from utf8: SOAP::WSDL::Client
       will not convert the request into a different encoding (yet).

       To leave out the encoding, just set the content type without appending charset like this:

         $soap->set_content_type('text/xml');

       Default:

        text/xml; charset: utf8

       set_prefix

        $soap->set_prefix('ns2');

       If set, alters the serialization of the request XML such that the supplied value is used
       as a namespace prefix for SOAP method calls. By way of example, the default XML
       serialization returns something like this:

           <?xml version="1.0"?>
           <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
               xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
               xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
             <SOAP-ENV:Body>
               <getElementId xmlns="http://services.exmaple.org/">
                 <elementId>12345</elementId>
               </getElementId>
             </SOAP-ENV:Body>
           </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

       If the sample set_prefix() call above is used prior to calling your SOAP method, the XML
       serialization returns this instead:

           <?xml version="1.0"?>
           <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
               xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
               xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
               xmlns:ns2="http://services.example.org/">
             <SOAP-ENV:Body>
               <ns2:getElementId>
                 <elementId>12345</elementId>
               </ns2:getElementId>
             </SOAP-ENV:Body>
           </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

       This is useful in cases where, for instance, one is communicating with a JAX
       <https://jax-ws.dev.java.net/> webservice, which tends to understand the latter but not
       the former. Note that this implementation is currently limited to a single additional
       namespace; if you require multiple custom namespaces, you should probably look into
       creating your own serializer.

   Features different from SOAP::Lite
       SOAP::WSDL does not aim to be a complete replacement for SOAP::Lite - the SOAP::Lite
       module has its strengths and weaknesses and SOAP::WSDL is designed as a cure for the
       weakness of little WSDL support - nothing more, nothing less.

       Nonetheless SOAP::WSDL mimics part of SOAP::Lite's API and behaviour, so SOAP::Lite users
       can switch without looking up every method call in the documentation.

       A few things are quite different from SOAP::Lite, though:

       SOAP request data

       SOAP request data may either be given as message object, or as a hash ref (in which case
       it will automatically be encoded into a message object).

       Return values

       The result from call() is not a SOAP::SOM object, but a message object.

       Message objects' classes may be generated from WSDL definitions automatically - see
       SOAP::WSDL::Generator::Typelib on how to generate your own WSDL based message class
       library.

       Fault handling

       SOAP::WSDL::Client returns a fault object on errors, even on transport layer errors.

       The fault object is a SOAP1.1 fault object of the following
       "SOAP::WSDL::SOAP::Typelib::Fault11".

       SOAP::WSDL::SOAP::Typelib::Fault11 objects are false in boolean context, so you can just
       do something like:

        my $result = $soap->call($method, $data);

        if ($result) {
           # handle result
        }
        else {
           die $result->faultstring();
        }

       outputxml

       SOAP::Lite returns only the content of the SOAP body when outputxml is set to true.
       SOAP::WSDL::Client returns the complete XML response.

       Auto-Dispatching

       SOAP::WSDL::Client does not support auto-dispatching.

       This is on purpose: You may easily create interface classes by using SOAP::WSDL::Client
       and implementing something like

        sub mySoapMethod {
            my $self = shift;
            $soap_wsdl_client->call( mySoapMethod, @_);
        }

       You may even do this in a class factory - see wsdl2perl for creating such interfaces.

TROUBLESHOOTING

   Accessing protected web services
       Accessing protected web services is very specific for the transport backend used.

       In general, you may pass additional arguments to the set_proxy method (or a list ref of
       the web service address and any additional arguments to the new method's proxy argument).

       Refer to the appropriate transport module for documentation.

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2004-2007 Martin Kutter.

       This file is part of SOAP-WSDL. You may distribute/modify it under the same terms as perl
       itself

AUTHOR

       Martin Kutter <martin.kutter fen-net.de>

REPOSITORY INFORMATION

        $Rev: 851 $
        $LastChangedBy: kutterma $
        $Id: Client.pm 851 2009-05-15 22:45:18Z kutterma $
        $HeadURL: https://soap-wsdl.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/soap-wsdl/SOAP-WSDL/trunk/lib/SOAP/WSDL/Client.pm $