STUB SUBROUTINES

The "class" or "package" created by stubmaker.pl is actually a sub-class of the core SOAP::Lite object. As a result, all methods one can call upon SOAP::Lite one can also call upon generated stubs.

For example, suppose you wanted to obtain readable output from the generated stub, then simply call readable(1) on the stub's instance. See the example below.

The following subroutines are unique to generated stub classes, and help the user control and configure the stub class.

want_som(boolean)

When set to 1, SOAP::Lite will return SOAP::SOM objects to the user upon invoking a method on a remote service. This is very helpful when you need to check to see if the return value is a SOAP::Fault or not. When set to 0, SOAP::Lite will return the return value of the method.

Invoking stubmaker.pl from the command line

> perl stubmaker.pl http://www.xmethods.net/sd/StockQuoteService.wsdl Or: > perl "-MStockQuoteService qw(:all)" -le "print getQuote('MSFT')"

Working with stub classes

Command line: > perl stubmaker.pl http://ws1.api.re2.yahoo.com/ws/soap-demo/full.wsdl

File: echo.pl > use full; > use SOAP::Lite +trace => qw( debug ); > my $f = new full; > $f->use_prefix(0); > $f->readable(1); > $f->want_som(1); > $som = $f->echoViaBase64("foo");