Consuming ColdFusion web service with Perl.

[Ian Skinner-3]

Anybody out there have the pleasure of consuming a ColdFusion webservice
that returns complex data in Perl?  I am trying to develop and debug a
web service to be used by both ColdFusion and Perl applications.

I can call the web service and return simple values no problem.  But
when I start looking at the methods the return complex data, I just
can't seem to figure out or find anything that makes heads or tails of
what I am supposed to do.

I get the following types of results:
ARRAY(0x1edacc8)
HASH(0x1ed8618)
QueryBean=HASH(0x1eed634)
basic=HASH(0x1ea4cb4)

How does somebody actually make use of the data contained inside these
array, hash, QueryBean and object complex data types?

TIA
Ian

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[Adam Haskell]

What module are you using in PERL?

Those look like memory references maybe you are not dereferencing the data
you want properly?

Adam


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Ian Skinner <HOF@...> wrote:

> Anybody out there have the pleasure of consuming a ColdFusion webservice
> that returns complex data in Perl?  I am trying to develop and debug a
> web service to be used by both ColdFusion and Perl applications.
>
> I can call the web service and return simple values no problem.  But
> when I start looking at the methods the return complex data, I just
> can't seem to figure out or find anything that makes heads or tails of
> what I am supposed to do.
>
> I get the following types of results:
> ARRAY(0x1edacc8)
> HASH(0x1ed8618)
> QueryBean=HASH(0x1eed634)
> basic=HASH(0x1ea4cb4)
>
> How does somebody actually make use of the data contained inside these
> array, hash, QueryBean and object complex data types?
>
> TIA
> Ian
>
>

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[Ian Skinner-3]

Adam Haskell wrote:
> What module are you using in PERL?
>  
SOAP::Lite
> Those look like memory references maybe you are not dereferencing the data
> you want properly?
>  
Yeah, that is what I am trying to figure out.  This is what I have so
far, is this as efficient as it gets?
### Function returns array  
$aryRsp = $complexSoapReq
    -> getAry();
   
print $aryRsp->result() . "\n";

@bar = $aryRsp->valueof('//getAryResponse/getAryReturn/getAryReturn');
print "-----\n";
foreach $i (@bar)
{
    print "$i\n";  
}
print "\nitem 2: ".@bar[1]."\n";
print "-----\n\n";

### Function returns structure i.e. hash array.
$structRsp = $complexSoapReq
    -> getStruct();
       
print $structRsp->result() . "\n";

@bar = $structRsp->valueof('//getStructReturn/item');
print "-----\n";
foreach $i (@bar)
{
    print $i->{'key'}.': '.$i->{'value'}."\n";  
   
    foreach $j (keys %{$i})
    {
        print $j . ": " . $i->{$j} . ' ';
    }
    print "\n\n";
}
print "-----\n\n";


I still need to figure out what to do with a queryBean aka record set
and a returned object.

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