NAME¶
SOAP::Client - exists purely as a superclass for client classes declared by the
various SOAP::Lite transport modules.
DESCRIPTION¶
The SOAP::Client class exists purely as a superclass for client classes declared
by the various SOAP::Lite transport modules. The methods it provides are all
simple accessors; they return the current value when called with no arguments
or set the attribute value and return the object reference when called with an
argument. These attributes include:
METHODS¶
- code, message, status
- Stores the response code, message, and status from the most-recent send
attempt. For some protocols, such as FTP, the same value is used for all
three because of the lack of finer-grained detail (the default is to
ensure that all three attributes contain data, even if redundant). Other
protocols (such as HTTP) have distinct values in each.
- endpoint
- Identifies the current endpoint to which messages are being sent. This
should match the value of the transport method from the SOAP::Transport
class, but setting this doesn't propagate to the transport object. It is
better to use the transport object (or the shortcut via the SOAP::Lite
object itself) when setting this.
- is_success
- The success or failure of the most-recent transmission is noted here as a
boolean value.
- options
- The options attribute keeps a hash-table reference of additional options
and their values. At present, only one option is used by any of the
transport modules:
- compress_threshold
- The value of this option should be a numerical value. If set, and if the
Compress::Zlib library is available, messages whose size in bytes exceeds
this value will be compressed before sending. Both ends of the
conversation must have it enabled.
Other options may be defined using this mechanism. Note that setting the options
using this accessor requires a full hash reference be passed. To set just one
or a few values, consider retrieving the current reference value and using it
to set the key(s).
SEE ALSO¶
SOAP::Server
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS¶
Special thanks to O'Reilly publishing which has graciously allowed SOAP::Lite to
republish and redistribute large excerpts from
Programming Web Services
with Perl, mainly the SOAP::Lite reference found in Appendix B.
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Paul Kulchenko. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHORS¶
Paul Kulchenko (paulclinger@yahoo.com)
Randy J. Ray (rjray@blackperl.com)
Byrne Reese (byrne@majordojo.com)