Passing parameter to a webservice via createObject or CFINVOKE

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I usually consume SOAP webservices with CFHTTP and post the XML as a HTTP parameter. However, this time I am trying to consume a webservice with createObject, but when I pass the XML as an argument to the webservice ws.someMethod(args);, it fails. I tried using a struct to hold the parameter values, but that also did not work. As such, how do one pass the parameters? The partial WSDL is below

            <xs:element name="ORDER">
            <xs:complexType>
                <xs:sequence>
                    <xs:element name="Header" type="schemaOne:HeaderType"/>
                    <xs:element maxOccurs="unbounded" name="Detail" type="schemaOne:DetailType"/>
                </xs:sequence>
            </xs:complexType>
        </xs:element>
        <xs:complexType name="DetailType">
            <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DTORDN"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DTRCID"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DTPRT"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DTQTY"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DTNTU"/>
            </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
        <xs:complexType name="HeaderType">
            <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSORDN"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSRCID"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBFNM"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBLNM"/>
                <xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="schemaOne:DSBENT"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBAD1"/>
                <xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="schemaOne:DSBAD2"/>
                <xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="schemaOne:DSBAD3"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBAD4"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBSTT"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBZIP"/>
                <xs:element ref="schemaOne:DSBCNT"/>
             </xs:sequence>
       </xs:complexType>

Here's the struct I've constructed.

<cfscript>
  ORDER = {};
  ORDER.Header = {};
  ORDER.Detail = {};
  ORDER.Header.DSORDN = '251716';
  ORDER.Header.DSRCID = 'H';
  ORDER.Header.DSBFNM = 'Joe';
  ORDER.Header.DSBLNM = 'Smith';
  ORDER.Header.DSBAD1 = '4997 County Road';
  ORDER.Header.DSBAD4 = 'Springfield';
  ORDER.Header.DSBSTT = 'MO';
  ORDER.Header.DSBZIP = '49657';
  ORDER.Header.DSBCNT = 'USA';
  ORDER.Detail.DTORDN = '251716';
  ORDER.Detail.DTRCID = 'D';
  ORDER.Detail.DTPRT = '0300604';
  ORDER.Detail.DTQTY = '0000000000001';
  ORDER.Detail.DTNTU = '00000009.9900';
</cfscript>

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 25 '18 at 19:54

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You have to consume SOAP web services that expect complex data type with CFC that mirrors the expected structure instead of passing the XML. See this

edited Sep 25 '18 at 19:54

NathanOliver

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answered May 16 '12 at 01:40

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I've updated the question to include how I'm constructing the struct. – RHPT May 16 '12 at 02:17
You need CFC, not just a struct, to map the correct CFC's property to the webservice's property. – Henry May 16 '12 at 04:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

i am working with unit tests at the moment and where trying to pass an xml file to my Webservice. I just saved the xml Files i needed inside external files and read them with "FileRead" inside cfscript. This is how i did it

<cfscript>

    input = FileRead("http.....");

    mycomponent = createObject("component", "component.beginning.from.root");
    mycomponent.methodName(input);

</cfscript>

but i had to change my code because before i parsed the content of the HttpRequest to xml and where looking for the expected elements. Now i use the incoming file and look immediately for the elements i want instead of parsing because its already xml

<cfset var body = xmlsearch(arguments.input, "//soapenv:body")[1] />

if you're interested in the code of my webservice just look here

Passing parameter to a webservice via createObject or CFINVOKE

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