Fw: WSDL2RPG limitations

Just letting everyone know the status of this because I think some may be
interested. IBM just responded that they will have a PTF for my type of
WSDL file on 2/8. Instead of waiting, I have gone the route of the
Tools400 WSDL2RPG. There were other posts with more information which were
more appropriate there. Thomas was great getting right on it. There was
just a minor issue with attributes that he had to fix and I have heard
there would be a new version of WSDL2RPG there tonight. So, I will look at
the new WSDL2RPG tomorrow. Thomas also mentioned something missing in the
definition and the customer has said they will fix that later. The new RPG
stubs generated from Thomas's fix that he e-mailed to me looked great so I
am confident. I looked at SoapUI, and it makes viewing the WSDL easier and
it makes sense. Now, I just have to focus on using Expat (another great
tool) to read the XML file with the data and populate the fields for the
RPG stubs. Even that has a good sample. Excellent work guys.

Thanks again.
Craig Strong
----- Forwarded by Craig Strong/DEKKO on 01/25/2012 02:29 PM -----

From: Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
<rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Cc: craigs@xxxxxxxxx
Date: 01/24/2012 06:20 PM
Subject: Re: WSDL2RPG limitations



Hi Craig,

If the tooling (WSDL2RPG or IWS) isn't working, you might try generating
the XML yourself, and sending/receiving with HTTPAPI.

Tools like WSDL2RPG (either IBM's, or Thomas's) generate the XML
document for you, which makes your job easier (because you don't need to
code it yourself.)

But, I've found it's relatively simple to run the WSDL through SoapUI,
and then copy/paste the XML into an RPG program. Then just send that.
Sure, you have to handle the XML yourself, but:

1) You know what it should look like (thanks to SoapUI)

2) You can make things work (even where tools that do the XML for you
fail.)

I see Charles already posted a link to my article about it. Also, FWIW,
I already mentioned to Rob that we'd try to help you if you sent your
WSDL file.

-SK



On 1/24/2012 1:38 PM, craigs@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I have some XML documents required to be sent via Web Services given the
WSDL and the HTTPS URL. The WSDL was given to us by the customer and I
have heard others have already gone live exchanging XML. I have the XML
generated and ready to send to the customer via Web Services. I know

that

I first need to create the service program from the WSDL. I tried the
newest IBM i-WS web services client using the wsdl2rpg.sh command. IBM
said, "This WSDL defines complex types that extend other complex types
which is not supported."
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/iws/limitations.html Currently,
IBM is checking with development if this issue needs to be addressed. I
then tried the newest version of the WSDL2RPG from the Tools400 site with
the newest HTTPAPI. The program blows up and I tried to debug it to the
function for user reference types. My head is swimming now. I don't

know

what software or platform the other suppliers used to consume web

services

but I'm looking for other options now. I think I can e-mail the WSDL to

a

select few if desired. The deadline is getting rather short so I am

hoping

to find something in existence.

Does anyone have ideas or experience with other alternative software?

Thanks.

Craig Strong