Stacy, I had this same problem and ended up building the solution in Java using WSDl2Java and invoking the Java classes from CF.
CF is great for simple Web service calls, but with complex Web service calls, it is extremely tough to get the data structure right, and there is absoluely no debugging facility to help you. If you are bound and determined to use CF natively to access the Web service, see if you can get an example SOAP packet of an actual request to the service. That might give you enough info to reverse-engineer the data structure. Otherwise, Java is the way to go. It took a lot of work to figure out the first time, but now that I know how to use WSDL2Java, I can do this fairly readily in CFMX 7. I wrote an article about it for CFDJ if you want to see what I did. Feel free to ping me off list if you have any questions. Rob >I've used those tools before...but what I'm trying to outline here is >that there *IS* no request to analyze...it won't even make it out of the >cfmx box until the local call validates against the method signature of >the service in question! > >1) CFMX takes cfinvoke tag with arguments and attempts to translate to >SOAP request >2) Validates against local cached wsdl >3) Exception is thrown due to argument mismatch. > >At no point is there a remote call made. The underlying issue is trying >to figure out what the proper CF structure needs to be... > >Either I'm sniffing glue here or just very poor at explaining the issue >;) > >Stace > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 4:24 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: Re: Is there a way to see webservice request generated by CFMX? > >Bryan the broken record says: > >On 9/8/05, Bryan Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> have a lok at the tools at mindreef.net....very cool!! >> > >This will show your WS request and response in XML, raw, ascii, and >hex....if you really need all those ;-) > >Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. >VP & Director of E-Commerce Development >Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. >phone: 250.480.0642 >fax: 250.480.1264 >cell: 250.920.8830 >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >web: www.electricedgesystems.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:218054 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
