VAT Webservice

Sorry to post and run, I didn't mean to submit.  After running that with valid values, try <cfdump var="#myReturn#"> to see what type of return you get, and voila.

hehe, dreamweaver wrote that for you right? ;)

Heres the result:

 Could not perform web service invocation "checkVat".
Here is the fault returned when invoking the web service operation:

AxisFault
 faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}Server.userException
 faultSubcode:
 faultString: java.lang.NullPointerException
 faultActor:
 faultNode:
 faultDetail:
      {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:java.lang.NullPointerException
      at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.createFault(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:221)
      at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:128)
      at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.endElement(DeserializationContext.java:1087)
      at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
      at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unk...

Can you show me the code with the values so I can test?

The actual values dont matter, the web service should simply return an error message if incorrect values are given.

I ended up going for a java port to cfscript solution:


function new(classname){
                  return createobject("java",arguments.classname);
            }
            
            
            mf = new("javax.xml.soap.MessageFactory").newInstance();      
        smsg = mf.createMessage();
        sp = smsg.getSOAPPart();
        se = sp.getEnvelope();
        body = se.getBody();
       
        //Add a namespace declaration to the envelope
        se.addNamespaceDeclaration("xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");        
   
        bodyName = se.createName("checkVat", "nsg", "http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/api/checkVatPort?wsdl");
        bodyElement = body.addBodyElement(bodyName);
   
        childName = se.createName("vatNumber");
        stateNm = bodyElement.addChildElement(childName);
        stateNm.addTextNode("1234");
            
            childName = se.createName("countryCode");
        stateNm = bodyElement.addChildElement(childName);
        stateNm.addTextNode("GB");
            
        //Save the message
        smsg.saveChanges();
             
        conn = new("javax.xml.soap.SOAPConnectionFactory").newInstance().createConnection();
     
        response = conn.call(smsg, "http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/api/checkVatPort?wsdl");
            
            responseXML = xmlparse(response.getSOAPPart().getAsString());

I was wrong about the arguments, the country code and VAT should be sufficient, but I can't get it to work yet either . . .

Sorry posted before reading your post.  Did you get it working via JAVA?

Yep the java ported to cfscript works great, thanks anyway usachrisk1983!

Sorry I couldn't help, but glad you got it working :)