SOAP Web Service Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v5.13, by Herong Yang
RPC Response Messages
This section provides some examples of using RPC (Remote Procedure Call) response messages.
Examples of RPC responses:
Example 1 - A user needs to invoke the following RPC on a target system called "inventory":
getQuantityInStock(PartNumber="123")
This RPC can be invoked as a Web method. The target system will retrieve the current quantity number and send it back in a SOAP RPC response message:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"> <env:Body env:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding" xmlns:enc="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding"> <res:response enc:nodeType="struct" xmlns:res="http://www.yang.com"> <res:result>208</res:result> </res:response> </env:Body> </env:Envelope>
Example 2 - Another user needs to invoke the following RPC on a target system called "inventory":
updateQuantityInStock(PartNumber="123", NewQuantity="200")
This RPC can be invoked as a Web method. The target system will update the quantity and send a SOAP RPC response message back. The target system may decide to include the updated quantity as the return value, and the previous value as an output parameter:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"> <env:Body env:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding" xmlns:enc="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding"> <res:response enc:nodeType="struct" xmlns:res="http://www.yang.com"> <res:result>200</res:result> <res:previousQuantity>208</res:previousQuantity> </res:response> </env:Body> </env:Envelope>
Example 3 - A user wants to update prices of a list of part numbers in an inventory system with the following RPC:
updatePrice(List=ArrayOfStructures)
This RPC can be invoked with a SOAP RPC invocation message. The target system will update prices based on the list received as an input parameter and send a SOAP RPC response message. The target system may decide to include the number of prices that have been updated as the return value:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"> <env:Body env:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding" xmlns:enc="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding"> <res:response enc:nodeType="struct" xmlns:res="http://www.yang.com"> <res:result>2</res:result> </res:response> </env:Body> </env:Envelope>
Table of Contents
Introduction to SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
SOAP Message Transmission and Processing
Using Web Methods to Invoke RPC
Using SOAP Messages to Invoke RPC
SOAP MEP (Message Exchange Patterns)
PHP SOAP Extension Client Programs
PHP SOAP Extension Server Programs
PHP SOAP Web Service Example - getTemp
Perl SOAP::Lite - SOAP Server-Client Communication Module
Perl Socket Test Program for HTTP and SOAP
Perl SOAP::Lite for NumberToWords SOAP 1.1 Web Service
Perl SOAP::Lite for SOAP 1.2 Web Services
Java Socket and HttpURLConnection for SOAP
SAAJ - SOAP with Attachments API for Java
SoapUI - SOAP Web Service Testing Tool
WS-Security - SOAP Message Security Extension
WS-Security X.509 Certificate Token
Perl SOAP::Lite for GetSpeech SOAP 1.1 Web Service
Perl SOAP::Lite 0.710 for SOAP 1.2 Web Services
Perl SOAP::Lite 0.710 for WSDL