Soap Coldfusion

Thi si what i did

<cfinvoke
 webservice="http://www.somesite.com/flashg/epis.wsdl" method="getHitNoHit" returnvariable="aHitNoHitData">
 <cfinvokeargument name="birthDay" value="1980-04-14T02:00:00.0000000+02:00">
 <cfinvokeargument name="firstname" value="luc">
 <cfinvokeargument name="name" value="Van Eeckhaute">
</cfinvoke>

this is my error:

Web service operation "getHitNoHit" with parameters {birthDay={1955-04-14T02:00:00.0000000+02:00},firstname={luc},name={Van Eeckhaute}} could not be found.  
 
 
The error occurred in D:\Inetpub\flashg\details.cfm: line 17
 
15 :  <cfinvokeargument name="birthDay" value="1955-04-14T02:00:00.0000000+02:00">
16 :  <cfinvokeargument name="firstname" value="luc">
17 :  <cfinvokeargument name="name" value="Van Eeckhaute">
18 : </cfinvoke>
 

Not Sure what is wrong here seems like it should be straight forward..but i aint seeing it.

Do you know what this error means?

can you post the wsdl? or a link to the wsdl that is accessible from the internet?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="http://www.gamingcommission.fgov.be/episWsdl/services/HitNoHit" xmlns:apachesoap="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xmlns:impl="http://www.gamingcommission.fgov.be/episWsdl/services/HitNoHit" xmlns:intf="http://www.gamingcommission.fgov.be/episWsdl/services/HitNoHit" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:wsdlsoap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<!--WSDL created by Apache Axis version: 1.2
Built on May 03, 2005 (02:20:24 EDT)-->
 <wsdl:types>
  <schema targetNamespace="http://www.gamingcommission.fgov.be/episWsdl/services/HitNoHit" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
   <import namespace="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/>
   <complexType name="HitNoHitData">
    <sequence>
     <element name="birthDay" nillable="true" type="xsd:dateTime"/>
     <element name="firstname" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
     <element name="idCard" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
     <element name="name" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
     <element name="natRegNum" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
     <element name="nationality" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
     <element name="passport" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
     <element name="result" nillable="true" type="xsd:string"/>
    </sequence>
   </complexType>
  </schema>
 </wsdl:types>

   <wsdl:message name="getHitNoHitRequest">

      <wsdl:part name="in0" type="impl:HitNoHitData"/>

   </wsdl:message>

   <wsdl:message name="getHitNoHitResponse">

      <wsdl:part name="getHitNoHitReturn" type="impl:HitNoHitData"/>

   </wsdl:message>

   <wsdl:portType name="HitNoHit">

      <wsdl:operation name="getHitNoHit" parameterOrder="in0">

         <wsdl:input message="impl:getHitNoHitRequest" name="getHitNoHitRequest"/>

         <wsdl:output message="impl:getHitNoHitResponse" name="getHitNoHitResponse"/>

      </wsdl:operation>

   </wsdl:portType>

   <wsdl:binding name="HitNoHitSoapBinding" type="impl:HitNoHit">

      <wsdlsoap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>

      <wsdl:operation name="getHitNoHit">

         <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction=""/>

         <wsdl:input name="getHitNoHitRequest">

            <wsdlsoap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" namespace="http://www.gamingcommission.fgov.be/episWsdl/services/HitNoHit" use="encoded"/>

         </wsdl:input>

         <wsdl:output name="getHitNoHitResponse">

            <wsdlsoap:body encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" namespace="http://www.gamingcommission.fgov.be/episWsdl/services/HitNoHit" use="encoded"/>

         </wsdl:output>

      </wsdl:operation>

   </wsdl:binding>

   <wsdl:service name="HitNoHitService">

      <wsdl:port binding="impl:HitNoHitSoapBinding" name="HitNoHit">

         <wsdlsoap:address location="http://www.gamingcommission.fgov.be/episWsdl/services/HitNoHit"/>

      </wsdl:port>

   </wsdl:service>

</wsdl:definitions

I have been playing but no luck yet......

I appreciate you helping me out here.....

I'm not sure why it isn't working either, but I'd try two more items. First, I'd try passing a date variable into the birthDate arguement to see if that works.  If that doesn't help, I know all the types show nillable in the wsdl, but you might try specifying them all none-the-less, in order. I know I've run into problems calling cfc's as a webservice without all the elements, and that could be it (thought that is documented on macromedia's website as a cfc requirement).

Hi RC,

I have trying to get it right.....


this is what i ahve so far:

<cfsavecontent variable="thesoap">
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:tns="http://www.gamingcommission.fgov.be/episWsdl/services/HitNoHit" xmlns:types="http://www.gamingcommission.fgov.be/episWsdl/services/HitNoHit/encodedTypes" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<tns:getHitNoHit>
<in0 href="#id1" />
</tns:getHitNoHit>
<tns:HitNoHitData id="id1" xsi:type="tns:HitNoHitData">
<birthDay xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">1955-04-14T02:00:00.0000000+02:00</birthDay>
<firstname xsi:type="xsd:string">Luc</firstname>
<name xsi:type="xsd:string">Van Eeckhaute</name>
</tns:HitNoHitData>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
</cfsavecontent>

<cfhttp url="http://a2s/EPISService/Service1.asmx" method="post" delimiter="," resolveurl="yes" >    
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="result" value="http://a2s/EPISService/Service1.asmx">
  <cfhttpparam type="xml" name="body" value="#theSoap#">
</cfhttp>

<cfdump var="#cfhttp.FileContent#">

And this what i seee on my page....

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <soap:Body> <soap:Fault> <faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode> <faultstring>Unable to handle request without a valid action parameter. Please supply a valid soap action.</faultstring> <detail /> </soap:Fault> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope>


How do i get the result to display?

So I take it you couldn't get the <cfinvoke> tag to work? Unfortunate. That is the way I've called webservices in the past. I'm out of town so I don't have all my reference materials with me. I believe, before your <cfhttpparam> that you are sending, you need to send another with a header variable specifying the soap action. In a raw html header it would be something like
SOAPAction: ""
(note that the wsdl shows that the soapaction is <wsdlsoap:operation soapAction=""/>)
I'm not exactly sure what the format is for the <cfhttpparam>, but likely something like:

<cfhttp url="http://a2s/EPISService/Service1.asmx" method="post" delimiter="," resolveurl="yes" >    
  <cfhttpparam type="header" name="result" value="http://a2s/EPISService/Service1.asmx">
  <cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="SOAPAction """"">
  <cfhttpparam type="xml" name="body" value="#theSoap#">
</cfhttp>

I'm not sure that you need the other header call that you have of name="result". But without access to my reference materials and development environment, I'm afraid I can't play with it myself.

I did try the <invoke> tags and for me that seeems like the best bet. but it did not work...its at the top of this post.

We tried to connect using Visual Basic sand all worked perfectly then through flash and that worked well, but coldfusion has us a bit stumped.

This is what i get with the latest code you posted:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <soap:Body> <soap:Fault> <faultcode>soap:Client</faultcode> <faultstring>Server did not recognize the value of HTTP Header SOAPAction: SOAPAction=&amp;quot;&amp;quot;.</faultstring> <detail /> </soap:Fault> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope>

So i started playing around a bit but again no luck.........I will have to use ASp and somehow intergrate the two......CF and ASP should not be too difficult. but if you could keep trying to help me here that would be great.....

i can wait for this to be resolved so when you are back in town we can try fix it....hope you have a good trip
Cheers

Looks like coldfusion is escaping the "'s when it send the header. Maybe someone else can come up with further help. I've been able to call with cfinvoke without problems.  Soap is suppose to be easy, but It never seems to work out that way until it is actually working, then it's easy ;)

I'd give one last thing to try.  Instead of
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="SOAPAction """"">
how about
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="SOAPAction ">
or
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="SOAPAction ''">  (note, two single quotes followed by a double quote).

I'm not sure either will work, I'm grasping at straws now. The proper way to do it is with cfinvoke.

actually, I think I found the answer.
http://hcc.musc.edu/research/shared_resources/xml_complex_types_to_cf_structure_notes.cfm

This is a sample from the above website that uses a different approach. I think the wdsl snippet they show in the referenced url above is similar to the one you are calling (except different names).  I think an approach like below may be worth pursuing.
<cfscript>
   stUser = structNew();
   stUser.fname = "John";
   stUser.lname = "Smith";
   stUser.age = 23;
   ws = createObject("webservice", "http://somehost/echosimple.asmx?wsdl");
   ws.echoStruct(stUser);
</cfscript>

Maybe looks something like
<cfscript>
 stHit = structNew();
 stHit.birthDay = "1955-04-14T02:00:00.0000000+02:00";
 stHit.firstname = "Luc";
 stHit.name = "Van Eeckhaute";
  ws = createObject("webservice", "http://www.gamingcommission.fgov.be/episWsdl/services/HitNoHit");
 ws.echoStruct(stHit);
</cfscript>

You may need to provide all the parameters. I'd also consider changing the birthDay string type to an actual cold fusion date.  But, it gives you another direction to try...

hi i tired that and that and every straw i could think of.....and no luck.......It should have been so straight forward.

I will leave the question open for a while if no one comes up with a solution you can have the points..........

Thanks anyway...

k let me try...i will let you know....

i played around and eventually got here, ok so this:

<cfscript>
 stHit = structNew();
 stHit.birthDay = "1955-04-14T02:00:00.0000000+02:00";
 stHit.firstname = "Luc";
 stHit.idCard = "";
 stHit.name = "Van Eeckhaute";
 stHit.natRegNum = "";
 stHit.nationality = "";
 stHit.passport = "";
 stHit.result = "";
 
 ws = createObject("webservice", "http://a2s/EPISService/Service1.asmx?WSDL");
 ws.echoStruct(stHit);
</cfscript>


give sme this error:

Web service operation "aHitNoHitData" with parameters {{BIRTHDAY={1955-04-14T02:00:00.0000000+02:00},RESULT={},IDCARD={},PASSPORT={},NAME={Van Eeckhaute},NATIONALITY={},FIRSTNAME={Luc},NATREGNUM={}}} could not be found.  
 
 
The error occurred in D:\Inetpub\flashg\details.cfm: line 21
 
19 :  
20 :  ws = createObject("webservice", "http://a2s/EPISService/Service1.asmx?WSDL");
21 :  ws.aHitNoHitData(stHit);
22 : </cfscript>
23 :
 

And this is somewhat positive no error but:

<cfhttp url="http://a2s/EPISService/Service1.asmx?WDSL" method="post" delimiter="," resolveurl="yes">    
  <cfhttpparam type="header" name="result" value="http://a2s/EPISService/Service1.asmx">
<cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="SOAPAction """"">
  <cfhttpparam type="xml" name="body" value="#theSoap#">
</cfhttp>



<cfdump var="#cfhttp.errorDetail#">

It give me an empty string:      [empty string]

Hmmmmm....it's close, we can't be far off.....

ok....

I have managed to get it working through flash...the strange thing is that if i run the flash through a local html file so just double clicking on the file...it works.

BUT when i run the HTML file through IIS so i browse to a site, setup through IIS the flash does not work.

So i am guessing it is a problem in the actual Coldfusion Setup, perhaps something in the coldfusion administrator that is preventing the soap from sending corretly it could also be IIS. I am not sure. If you have encountered a situation like this previuosly what was your solution?

Please help!