Scott Rossi <scott@...> writes: > > Hey All: > > I'm looking to grab some weather data from a web service that apparently > uses SOAP requests and responses, for which I know absolutely nothing, > (other than it's XML?), and am looking for some more info. > > I picked up Mark Wieder's SOAP lib stack, but I'm wondering if there's a > resource/example somewhere that explains the process in simple terms (thus > the "dummy" in the title). I've found dozens of references on the web that > talk about structure but I'm still unclear how to use the format with > LiveCode. Is this a "put url. . ." type of thing or is the request sent in > some other manner? Any examples around somewhere that I can look at?
It's unfortunately not as simple as a "put url" statement. Your best friend here is the associated wsdl document. However, these are hierarchical xml documents and aren't particularly user-readable. If you have a recent version of the libSOAP library, use the WSDL.CreateServicePrototypeFromFile function to generate the code you need to call the web service. The parameters are a path to the wsdl file on your computer and the name of the service you want to call. Then start using the library and just use the generated code. Calling a web service is a complicated matter of creating an SOAP header and then an associated SOAP envelope, both xml, posting those to the web server using an xmlrpc call, getting the response from the service, and parsing it. The libSOAP library tries its best to insulate you from having to know the intimate details of what's going on there. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
