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

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

Thanks, Jonathon.  I'll review your comments along with the examples and see 
what I can come up with.

David

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 11:05 am, Leech, Jonathan wrote:
> I don't have anything I can show you from the config file, but the
> responses I get are XML documents, so
> in general I use XSL Transform pipeline stages to transform them into what
> I want.  For example, I get a response back, do an XSL transformation on it
> to convert it into a bunch of SQL insert statements, and then run the
> SQLWriter pipeline stage.  Another thing you could do is use the XPath
> extract pipeline stage, which lets you read values out of the document and
> put them into document attributes.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Glick [mailto:dg...@co...]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:04 PM
> To: bab...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Babeldoc-devel] Babeldoc soap support question(s)
>
>
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> I've modified SoapWriterPipelineStage to match HttpClientPipelineStage in
> how
> it handles response documents (I've also added a boolean option responseDoc
> that defaults to false, so that the old behavior is maintained).  However,
> I'm not sure how to actually USE the response document in a pipeline. 
> Would
>
> you have a snippet of your config file where you set up the
> HttpClientPipelineStage and the following stage(s) that process the
> response
>
> that I could review?
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> David
>
> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 10:09 am, David Glick wrote:
> > 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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