NAME

Catalyst::Model::SOAP - Map a WSDL to a catalyst model class.

SYNOPSIS

      {# In the model class...
          package MyApp::Model::SOAP;
          use base qw(Catalyst::Model::SOAP);
          __PACKAGE__->register_wsdl('http://foo.bar/baz.wsdl', 'Baz');
          __PACKAGE__->register_wsdl('http://baz.bar/foo.wsdl', 'Foo');
      };
      {# later in some other class..
         $c->model('SOAP::Baz')->getWeather(%arguments);
         # is then dispatched to the operation getWeather described by the
         # first wsdl...
         $c->model('SOAP::Foo')->foo(%arguments);
         # is then dispatched to the operation foo described by the
         # second wsdl...
      };

ABSTRACT

Create a catalyst model class from a WSDL definition using XML::Compile::SOAP.

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a mapping from a wsdl definition, interpreted by XML::Compile::SOAP::WSDL, as a Model class, where each operation in the wsdl file is represented by a method with the same name.

METHODS

register_wsdl($wsdl, $targetclass)

        This method will register the operations described by $wsdl in the
        $targetclass package. $wsdl may be anythin
        XML::Compile::SOAP::WSDL11 accepts. The $targetclass is a relative
        package name which will be concatenated in the name of the model.

        Note that XML::Compile->knownNamespace(...) can be used to help
        declaring the wsdl.

ACCESSORS

For each operation, a secondary method called $operationdata is created. This method returns a list composed by the WSDL object, the operation object and the compiled code ref.

INVOCATION

The invocation schema for each operation is documented in XML::Compile::SOAP. Each method is a closure that will call the coderef with the parameters ($self excluded).

XML::Compile::SOAP x SOAP::WSDL

For this module, there were two options on the SOAP client implementation. XML::Compile::SOAP and SOAP::WSDL. While both implement all the features expected by this module, the reason to choose XML::Compile::SOAP over SOAP::WSDL resides in the hability to support the specs more closely in the future. And also to provide a better support to handle literal XML messages. As the SOAP::WSDL documentation already states, XML::Compile::SOAP provides an approach much more extensible and close to the specs than SOAP::WSDL.

Another version of this module may be implemented in the future supporting the other module, but, as for the relationship between Catalyst::Controller::SOAP and Catalyst::Model::SOAP, XML::Compile::SOAP seems to make more sense.

SEE ALSO

Catalyst::Controller::SOAP, XML::LibXML, XML::Compile::SOAP

AUTHORS

Daniel Ruoso "daniel@ruoso.com"

BUG REPORTS

Please submit all bugs regarding "Catalyst::Model::SOAP" to "bug-catalyst-model-soap@rt.cpan.org"

LICENSE

This library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.