Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Babeldoc soap support question(s)

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

Thanks for the pointer, Jonathan.  I'm reviewing it now.

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 9:50 am, Leech, Jonathan wrote:
> I'm not sure about all the details of SOAP, but I just wrote an
> HttpClientPipelineStage that's pretty generic, and it makes a document out
> of the reply.  You might want to take a look at it, its located in the web
> module.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Glick [mailto:dg...@co...]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 10:52 AM
> To: bab...@li...
> Subject: [Babeldoc-devel] Babeldoc soap support question(s)
>
>
> I'll be building an interface to a soap web service API, and therefore I
> thought I should stop futzing around and actually look into building the
> pipeline.  In starting to review the soap stuff, I've come across the some
> issues that I would appreciate those with years of experience (or even
> weeks
>
> will work) to comment on.
>
> I need to go through a (relatively) complicated process as follows:
>
> a. post soap document.  Response is either transaction id or failure code.
> b. if transaction id, post soap queries for status of transaction until
> status
> = done.
> c. if failure code, indicate failure through some magic that I haven't
> thought
> of yet.
>
> I have the following questions:
>
> 1. The current soap writer ignores the reply.  I'll need to change that,
> but
>
> I'd like to implement it such that it can be as generic as possible.  Is
> there a description somewhere of how a stage writer should act?  Or,
> lacking
>
> that, which is the best stage writer to use as a template for how the
> SoapWriter should be modified?
>
> 2. How should the reply be handled?  Is there some current stage that I can
> use, or will I need to create my own stage to process the reply?  If I need
> to roll my own, is there some guide lines to make it generic for general
> use,
> or should I just make it specific to my needs?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> David

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