I've done some further research into adding SOAP capabilities to Gambas and have discovered the gSOAP open source library which is a C library. It is well documented, cross platform, and available in many Linux repositories, including Ubuntu and other Debian packages. What gSOAP does is, it takes a WSDL file (either a http or a local file) and generates a C/C++ header from it. It then compiles a set of C/C++ class files for use within a project AND a full set of request and response XML files, like the one i posted above.
Now i'm quite new to Gambas, i've never used XML/DOM, and the gb.xml documentation is not yet available...but i think the addition of SOAP services would be quite a simple task for someone familiar with XML, DOM, and C code. My very rough proposal is: 1) add gSOAP to Gambas as gb.WebServices or perhaps include it in gb.Web 2) allow users to create a WebService object: DIM ws AS NEW WebService 3) specify the WSDL file (which may be local or remote) something like: ws.WSDL.URL = "https://api.betfair.com/global/v3/BFGlobalService.wsdl" (or) ws.WSDL.FILE = "~/BFGlobalService.wsdl" maybe it would be better to specify the WSDL like this?: DIM ws AS NEW WebService("https://api.betfair.com/global/v3/BFGlobalService.wsdl") 4) pass the WSDL location into gSOAP and let it create the C/C++/XML files Note that gSOAP can't directly handle https, so it may be better to download ALL files via WGET or similar and pass them as a local file? 5) only the xml files are relevent, so the C++ files can be deleted (unless these are easier to work with/can be directly converted into Gambas syntax??) 6) wrap the xml files into single functions within the WebService class, similar to the code in my previous post 7) add a http function to the WebService for the request/response stuff (curl HttpClient?) Looking at what i've just written, it may be easier to just let gSOAP do its thing and then just convert the C classes into Gambas classes? I'm just stabbing in the dark as i know nothing about the development of Gambas. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Web-Services%3A-Working-with-WSDL-tp20328779p20614928.html Sent from the gambas-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user