Using CF and XML

[GUJUm0deL]

Can anyone help me? I need to use SOAP and XML with CF. I don't know how to begin. How do I setup SOAP and XML to be used with CF?

Thanks.


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[GUJUm0deL]

Any ideas?


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[TruthInSatire]

phew... took me a bit to find this again but this is a very good article that might get you started.

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/xml_xslt.html

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[dallasweb]

If you're using MX, then the axis soap engine is on your server. (diff ver based on service pack)

You can write your code in cfc's and call it in a browser with "?WSDL" as your query string and it will return the cfc as a web service wrapped in soap. CF does it all for you....you shouldn't have to write any soap, unless you really want to learn.

Hope that helps

 

[GUJUm0deL]

bombboy, thanks for the link. Looking at it now.

dallasweb, how do I write a CFC that does what you just said? If I can get CF to do all the work, then saves me lots of time.


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[dallasweb]

bombboy...

Here is a sample of how to write a component (CFC)

Save as something.cfc and then call it from a browser as something.cfc?WSDL....a you'll see you soap doc. There is some good documentation avail on the web ...just search for coldfusion cfc

<cffunction access="remote" name="findSomething" output="false" returntype="string" hint="Return output: verifySomethingResult( XML string )">
<cfargument name="somevar" required="true">
<cfset variables.errormessage="">
....do a query or something....get some data
....what I do is wrap it up as XML

<cfset variables.verifySomethingResult=''>
<cfset variables.verifySomethingResult = variables.verifyDocResult & '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>'>
<cfset variables.verifySomethingResult = variables.verifyDocResult & '<result>'>
<cfset variables.verifyDocResult = variables.verifyDocResult & '<something>#variables.something#</something>'>
<cfset variables.verifyDocResult = variables.verifyDocResult & '</result>'>
<cfreturn variables.verifyDocResult>
</cffunction>
</cfcomponent>

Good luck

 

[dallasweb]

Here is the result of the above code:
something.cfc?WSDL

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="

http://test.cfm"

xmlns:impl="

http://test.cfm"

xmlns:intf="

http://test.cfm"

xmlns:apachesoap="

http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap"

xmlns:wsdlsoap="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"

xmlns:soapenc="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

xmlns:xsd="

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

xmlns:tns1="

http://rpc.xml.coldfusion"

xmlns:wsdl="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"

xmlns="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"><wsdl:types><schema

xmlns="

http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"

targetNamespace="

http://rpc.xml.coldfusion"><import

namespace="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/><complexType

name="CFCInvocationException"><sequence/></complexType></schema></wsdl:types>
<wsdl:message name="findSomethingResponse">
<wsdlart name="findSomethingReturn" type="xsd:string"/>
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:message name="findSomethingRequest">
<wsdlart name="somevar" type="xsd:anyType"/>
</wsdl:message>
<wsdl:message name="CFCInvocationException">
<wsdlart name="fault" type="tns1:CFCInvocationException"/>
</wsdl:message>
<wsdlortType name="deleteme">
<wsdlperation name="findSomething" parameterOrder="somevar">
<wsdl:input name="findSomethingRequest" message="impl:findSomethingRequest"/>
<wsdlutput name="findSomethingResponse" message="impl:findSomethingResponse"/>
<wsdl:fault name="CFCInvocationException" message="impl:CFCInvocationException"/>
</wsdlperation>
</wsdlortType>
<wsdl:binding name="deleteme.cfcSoapBinding" type="impl:deleteme">
<wsdlsoap:binding style="rpc" transport="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>

<wsdlperation name="findSomething">
<wsdlsoapperation soapAction=""/>
<wsdl:input name="findSomethingRequest">
<wsdlsoap:body use="encoded" encodingStyle="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

namespace="

http://test.cfm"/>

</wsdl:input>
<wsdlutput name="findSomethingResponse">
<wsdlsoap:body use="encoded" encodingStyle="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

namespace="

http://test.cfm"/>

</wsdlutput>
<wsdl:fault name="CFCInvocationException">
<wsdlsoap:fault use="encoded" encodingStyle="

http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"

namespace="

http://test.cfm"/>

</wsdl:fault>
</wsdlperation>
</wsdl:binding>
<wsdl:service name="deletemeService">
<wsdlort name="deleteme.cfc" binding="impl:deleteme.cfcSoapBinding">
<wsdlsoap:address location="

http://hfmodule1.health-first.org/cfm/test/deleteme.cfc"/>

</wsdlort>
</wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>