Re: [Mantisbt-soap-dev] MantisBT 1.2.13 planned change - add support for php5 native soap extension

[Robert M. <rob...@gm...>]

On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Raúl Luna <sup...@ya...> wrote:
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> I have mantis deployed over windows xp server. If you let me know how to
> check it, I will do ASAP.

Run phpinfo(); inside a php page and see if the 'soap' extension is present.

Robert

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> Raul Luna
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> Robert Munteanu <rob...@gm...> escribió:
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> Hi Raul,
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> (+cc back the lists)
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> The API will remain unchanged after I get this change merged. I'd be
> interested to know if - to your knowledge - the platforms where you
> deploy MantisBT have access to the php soap extension.
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> If you don't, that's fine :-)
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> Robert
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> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Raul Luna <sup...@ya...>
> wrote:
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>> Hello Robert:
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>> I am developing in Java, accessing Mantis services through SOAP. If the
>> new
>> technology will have an easy integration with Java, for me it's okay.
>>
>> Regards,
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>> Enviado desde la nevera // Sent from the fridge
>> Raul Luna Rodríguez
>> sup...@ya...
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>> De: Robert Munteanu <rob...@gm...>
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>> Enviado: Jueves, 1 de noviembre, 2012 9:36 P.M.
>> Asunto: [Mantisbt-soap-dev] MantisBT 1.2.13 planned change - add support
>> for
>> php5 native soap extension
>>
>> Hi,
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>> (Sorry for the cross-post, I would like to reach a wide audience )
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>> I've been working on refreshing the backend of our SOAP API. The API,
>> while reasonably featureful and well working, is based on nusoap. This
>> poses a maintenance burden on us ( see for instance 0014157: Array to
>> string conversion error on soap request with PHP 5.4 [1] which
>> requires to make changes again to support newer PHP versions ) and
>> also brings performance problems ( see 0014672: Slow performance of
>> SOAP calls due to nusuoap [2] ) .
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>> I have worked towards getting MantisBT to support both the php5 native
>> soap extension and the nusoap library. The code is now available at my
>> github fork [3]. There is a configuration setting which allows the
>> administrator to control which backend is used.
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>> I have the following plan:
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>> 1. After 1.2.12 is released, merge the code into master and
>> master-1.2.x . The configuration setting defaults to using nusoap . At
>> this point I would encourage SOAP API users to give it a test.
>> 2. After 1.2.13 is released, switch the configuration setting to
>> default to the soap extension.
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>> Depending on user feedback, I would like to remove nusoap completely.
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>> I'm interested in two things
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>> 1. What is your opinion about the above plan? I'm interested in
>> developers and users alike
>> 2. If you use the SOAP API, are you able to use the php5 native soap
>> extension if we remove support for using nusoap?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Robert
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>> [1]: http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=14157
>> [2]: http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=14672
>> [3]: https://github.com/rombert/mantisbt/tree/14871-soap-extension
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