Perl SOAP::Lite for SOAP 1.2 Web Services

SOAP Web Service Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟Perl SOAP::Lite for SOAP 1.2 Web Services

This chapter provides tutorial examples and notes on using SOAP::Lite for SOAP 1.2 Web services. Topics include installing SOAP 7.10; testing methods available on client objects; using soapversion() and envprefix() to generate SOAP 1.2 requests; using default_ns() to set default namespace; using DEFAULT_HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE constant to fix content type header line.

Message Styles Supported in SOAP::Lite

Methods on SOAP::Lite Client Object

Testing SOAP::Lite Client Objects

Differences between SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2

NumberToWords_localhost.pl - Testing on Local Host

soapversion('1.2') and envprefix('soap12') Must Used Together

default_ns() - Setting Namespace for Body Elements

SOAP::Data - Utility Class to Generate XML Elements

SOAPAction - Not Needed, But No Way to Remove It

NumberToWords_SOAP_1_2.pl - SOAP::Lite for SOAP 1.2 Web Service

Takeaways:

SOAP::Lite does support SOAP 1.2 protocol.
envprefix('soap12') must be called to provide correct SOAP 1.2 envelope namespace.
SOAPAction header line is not needed in SOAP 1.2. But there is no easy way to remove it.
"application/soap+xml" is the required media type in the Content-Type header line for SOAP 1.2.
Thanks to dataaccess.com for providing the NumberToWords Web service.