[cl-soap-devel] Re: Announcing CL-SOAP

[Bill Clementson]

On 10/9/05, Sven Van Caekenberghe <scaekenberghe at common-lisp.net> wrote:
>
> On 09 Oct 2005, at 20:48, Bill Clementson wrote:
> > Now, the basic examples seem to work fine (with the exception of the
> > currency conversion example which appears to be a problem at the
> > service end and not with your code).
>
> Maybe, or maybe you used the wrong arguments:

Ahh, that was it! I thought I was supposed to pass in currency codes
and not country names (e.g. - I was sending in "USD", "CAD", "GBP"
instead of "US", "CANADA", "ENGLAND"). mea culpa.

> > Most of the wsdl examples have a comment in them that says "doesn't
> > work...". Is this a problem with the xmethod's service's wsdl or is it
> > because there is wsdl functionality that you still need to implement
> > before the service's description can be retrieved correctly?
>
> Both.
>
> The marked ones also have an explanation of why (I think) they do not
> work.
> But it is also true that I wouldn't expect everything to work with
> the current state of the implementation.
>
> As you probably read between the lines, CL-SOAP was started and
> brought to 'phase 1' in response to a request by Alain Picard from
> Memetrics - with financial support by Memetrics and Beta Nine. The
> goal of phase 1 was basically to be able to talk to the Google
> AdWords API. This required HTTPS client support, the SOAP framework,
> document style calls (as opposed to the more common rpc style), WSDL
> support and non-trivial XSD typing. All in all, more than this
> minimum is now working.

Actually, for a "Phase 1" deliverable, quite a lot of stuff is
actually working!

> However, to move things forward, help is needed from people with
> knowledge of how SOAP works and who are willing to put some time in
> extending/improving CL-SOAP - in my opinion this can only be done by
> pursuing concrete goals like talking to this or that public SOAP API.
> WSDL and especially XSD are way to complex and broad to implement
> completely - to only solution is to be pragmatic.
>
> > I am subscribing to the CL-SOAP mailing list and will send my future
> > comments/questions to the list.
>
> OK - I took the liberty of cc'ing this reply to the list.

That's fine - I'll also cc the list with this reply and any future comments.

Cheers,
Bill