Re: Web Services War Stories

Jon, (and all)

Does this smell like the same issue? https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=44686

Basically, PHP is an open source language. If you encounter a problem and feel up to the challenge, feel free to take a swing at writing the fix! In many cases, PHP updates and enhancements are effected by SEVERAL members of the community. Zend contributes it's fair share, too. (at least 6 full time employee's contributing to the open source community that I am aware of). Some fixes can come faster than others, but they oftentimes do come.

But if writing the fix is a little too much, at least report the bug and folks like Dmitry (above), Rasmus, Ilia, etc. can dig into the issue as they are addressing updates, etc.
https://bugs.php.net/report.php

Regards,

Mike
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-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 10:36 AM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web Services War Stories


On Jan 30, 2012, at 11:20 AM, web400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

You've got to give someone credit for the amount of code that must have gone into PHP SoapClient to simplify the interface as they did. I wonder how well it works with complex WSDL files ... <snip>

I've actually got one it can't handle Nathan. There is an issue when there are duplicate definitions used. I'm not sure of the exact issue but it relates to the fact that in the wsdl I have there are two includes referenced that contain the custom data type definitions. Problem arises because one of them includes and references element definitions in the other. SoapUI handles it and ignores the duplicate entries. The PHP parser craps out and can't handle it. The problem can apparently be cured by judicious editing of the wsdl - but I'm not savvy enough with wsdls to be able to sort it out (I have tried but ...). Originally vendor support staff told me that could could give me instructions on how to make the change. Now they are refusing and claim that none of their staff would ever have told me that <sigh>

Jon Paris

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