Op 13 aug 2008, om 10:33 heeft Thomas Engelmeier het volgende
geschreven:
Am 12.08.2008 um 22:26 schrieb patrick machielse:
Now I find myself having to deploy to a platform where not even
this feeble API is available. I've been investigating alternatives,
and found the gSOAP library, which at the moment looks like the
best candidate. However, ideally I would like to use a pure Cocoa
solution, or a project which has existing Cocoa wrappers. Does
anyone have experiences with gSOAP on OS X, or know of a good
alternative?
a.) it works but can be hell if you have to debug, especially if you
have to load 100kb+ generated source files in Xcode.
Hmm, thanks for the warning. On the other hand, the documentation of
gSOAP, and the available recourses on the web, seem to be far superior
to what's available for WebServicesCore.
b.) IANAL, but a Cocoa enabled platform w/o WSCore might be in
conflict with the GPL the royalty-free usage of gSOAP demands IIRC.
gSOAP is available under several licenses (and is used by big name
software houses) so I believe this should not be a problem (knock on
wood...)
c.) Alternatives also depend on how many calls the target API has.
creating the comm with a combination of printf' to a XML template
string, NSURLRequest and parsing results with libXML takes another
amount of time. Sometimes the later is more effective (e.g. for some
primitive "gimme weather at ZIP code 12345" SOAP API).
I have been considering this approach, and it could work for the
simpler cases. However, I need to interact with more mature services
as well, API that will return complex types and structured data, and
it would be nice to have a more robust mechanism under the hood that
would handle server communication, authentication, and the conversion
to and from Cocoa objects automatically.
Thanks,
patrick
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Patrick Machielse
Hieper Software
http://www.hieper.nl
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