Testing service() Function Locally

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∟Testing service() Function Locally

This section provides a tutorial example on how to test the service() function with a local WSDL document file with a local URL.

With the modified WSDL document stored on my local system, I am ready to test SOAL::lite for WSDL locally now:

#- GetSpeech_WSDL_localhost.pl
#- Copyright (c) 2009 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
#- All rights reserved
#
   use SOAP::Lite +trace;
   my $result = SOAP::Lite
      ->service('file:///C:/herong/GetSpeech.wsdl')
      ->readable('true')
      ->GetSpeech('To be, or not to be');

Result of GetSpeech_WSDL_localhost.pl:

POST http://localhost/soap11 HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/xml
Accept: multipart/*
Accept: application/soap
Content-Length: 831
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
SOAPAction: "http://xmlme.com/WebServices/GetSpeech"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
    xmlns:tm="http://microsoft.com/wsdl/mime/textMatching/"
    xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/"
    xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/"
    soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
    xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/"
    xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
    xmlns:tns="http://xmlme.com/WebServices">
  <soap:Body>
    <tns:GetSpeech>
      <Request xsi:type="s:string">To be, or not to be</Request>
    </tns:GetSpeech>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
...
500 Can't connect to localhost:80 (connect: Unknown error)

The result tells me that:

Yes. WSDL can be tested locally without using any real Web service server.
By default, the service() function picked up the "port" defined for SOAP 1.1, because it uses "POST http://localhost/soap11 HTTP/1.1".
The Envelope is generated with the wrong namespace: xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/".
By the way, readable('true') must be called after service(). Otherwise, the request XML is not readable.