[Israel.pm] SOAP::Lite and service exploration from WSDL

[Uri Bruck]

When you install SOAP::Lite it comes with something called stubmaker.pl
It's a very short program and needs only SOAP::Lite
stubmaker the url as an argument and generates a module. The method 
definitions are all placed in a hash called %method.
You can run it once on the wsdl you want to use and then use the 
generated package, which in turn uses SOAP::Lite. If you want to do real 
time, you can read it and do what it does.
It's short enough to quote here in its entirety:


use SOAP::Lite;

print "Accessing...\n";
my $schema = SOAP::Schema
   -> schema(shift or die "Usage: $0 <URL with schema description> 
[<service> [<port>]]\n")
   -> parse(@ARGV);

print "Writing...\n";
foreach (keys %{$schema->services}) {
   my $file = "./$_.pm";
   print("$file exists, skipped...\n"), next if -s $file;
   open(F, ">$file") or die $!;
   print F $schema->stub($_);
   close(F) or die $!;
   print "$file done\n";
}


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I just ran it this way:
perl /usr/bin/stubmaker.pl 
http://soap.amazon.com/schemas2/AmazonWebServices.wsdl

(in one line, and I'm not sure it's the latest version of the Amazon web 
services)
and it generated a file called
AmazonSearchService.pm
and it appears to include everything.



Yona Shlomo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I know the URL of some WSDL file that describes web
> servives.
> 
> Anyone knows how I can use a SOAP::Lite client to list the
> available servives at that URL, and their interface? (which
> methods are available, which arguments they expect and what
> return values are expected).
> 
> Of course, I can do that by reading the WSDL myself, but I'd
> like to automate the process.
> 
> Thanks.
> 


-- 
Thanks,
Uri
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