Easiest way to send XML to ColdFusion for Processing

[twoeyes]

I think I'm in over my head. =)

I want to find some examples on how I can get ColdFusion to receive an XML file over HTTP. I had intended to just do an HTTP form "POST", but I suspect that this might be better done with some sort of web service. I just don't know where to start.

The sticking point, is that I can't find an example of a web service in CF that receives an entire XML file, rather than a couple basic string values. Is it possible, and if so, how? It would be impractical to send one record at a time, because this could eventually end up as thousands of transactions per day.


Some details:

My task is to automagically take some daily records from our head office database server and send them to our public website for some stuff to happen - updates to the online prices, email specific customers, etc.

At the head office, I intend to use C# and a scheduled task to kick off the little application.
At the public website, I need to use ColdFusion.

Any tips would be very much appreciated.

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Perceptus Solutions Inc.
A little computer support and web firm.

http://www.perceptus.ca

 

[NorthStarDA]

this is a very simple thing to do,

create a web service in CF that accepts the xml string as an argument

then 1 hit to the xmlParse() function will put that xml into a structure you can easily deal with in the cf web service.

see this article:

http://www.quackit.com/coldfusion/coldfusion_web_services.cfm

for a quick demonstration on how CF handles xml and web services


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[twoeyes]

Doh! I guess I should have known that it would be something really easy.

That xmlParse() function makes perfect sense.

Thank you!

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Perceptus Solutions Inc.
A little computer support and web firm.

http://www.perceptus.ca