[Soaplab-users] Soaplab2, WSDLs and third-party clients

[Andrew C. <cl...@bi...>]

Hi everyone,

I'm a brand-new Soaplab user so apologies if I've missed something obvious 
here, but I've looked through the website and Google and haven't found any 
solutions.

I've installed Soaplab2 and gone through the instructions in the first part 
of "Soaplab 2: Step by Step" successfully. So, I can connect to

http://localhost:8080/soaplab2/

and see all the standard services supplied with the system, and get sensible 
results out.

However, what I really need to do is ensure that I can consume Soaplab2 
services in other clients. So I got the WSDL files in src/etc/wsdl and edited 
them to have

http://localhost:8080/soaplab2/services

instead of REPLACE_WITH_ACTUAL_URL.

I then downloaded SoapUI to test them with (http://soapui.org/) and loaded up 
AnalysisList.wsdl, and it correctly parsed the service definitions and gave 
me request templates for each of them. However, I can't get anything out 
except faults. For example, when I try to call getAvailableAnalyses with the 
following request:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
xmlns:org="http://org.soaplab.2">
   <soapenv:Header/>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <org:getAvailableAnalyses/>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

I just get this response:

<S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <S:Body>
      <S:Fault xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
         <faultcode>S:Client</faultcode>
         <faultstring>Cannot find dispatch method for 
{http://org.soaplab.2}getAvailableAnalyses</faultstring>
      </S:Fault>
   </S:Body>
</S:Envelope>

What am I doing wrong? I know it's not a SoapUI-specific fault because the 
same thing happens when I try to call methods with the Perl module SOAP::WSDL 
too. wsdl2perl.pl generates client proxy classes quite happily, with no 
errors, but I just get the same exceptions about missing dispatch methods.

I'd really appreciate any suggestions you can throw my way because Soaplab2 
looks like exactly what we need for this project (exposing various analytical 
processes from the CATH database).

Thanks in advance,

Dr Andrew Clegg
CATH Group
Research Dept. of Structural & Molecular Biology
University College London
http://cathdb.info/