SOAP::Lite server and Apache SOAP client

[ti...@uk.andersen.com]

All,

I am trying to get a SOAP::Lite server working with and Apache SOAP client. It
is only a basic example but  I am getting the following error when running the
client. I can hit the SOAP::Lite server with a SOAP::Lite client with no
problems and the string is returned however, when I try and hit it with the
Apache SOAP client, I get the following error returned:

invoke service
  URL= http://10.117.149.207/twiki/bin/TWikiServices.pl
  URN =TWikiServices

Getting the response.......

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

     at java.lang.StringBuffer.charAt(StringBuffer.java:276)

     at org.apache.soap.util.net.HTTPUtils.post(HTTPUtils.java, Compiled Code)

     at
org.apache.soap.transport.http.SOAPHTTPConnection.send(SOAPHTTPConnection.java:282)

     at org.apache.soap.rpc.Call.invoke(Call.java:205)

     at soapclient.MailExtractor.main(MailExtractor.java:28)

Exception in thread "main"


Please can anyone point me in the right direction for getting this simple demo
running.

Regards,

Timo




The following code elements are being used...

The java client:

package soapclient;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.net.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.apache.soap.util.xml.*;
import org.apache.soap.*;
import org.apache.soap.encoding.*;
import org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc.*;
import org.apache.soap.rpc.*;
import org.apache.soap.transport.http.SOAPHTTPConnection;

public class MailExtractor
  {
    public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception
      {
        URL url = new URL( "http://10.117.149.207/twiki/bin/TWikiServices.pl" );
        String urn = "TWikiServices";
        Call call = new Call(); // prepare the service invocation
        call.setTargetObjectURI( urn );
        call.setMethodName( "hi" );
        call.setEncodingStyleURI( Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC );
        try {
          System.out.println( "invoke service\n" + "  URL= " + url + "\n  URN ="
 + urn );
          System.out.println("Getting the response.......");
          Response response = call.invoke( url, "" ); // invoke the service
          if( !response.generatedFault() ) {
              System.out.println("got a result.....");
              Parameter result = response.getReturnValue(); // response was OK
              System.out.println( "Result= " + result.getValue() );
          } else {
            System.out.println("got a fault.....");
            Fault f = response.getFault(); // an error occurred
            System.err.println( "Fault= " + f.getFaultCode() + ", " +
f.getFaultString() );
          }
          System.out.println("Finished process....");
       } catch( SOAPException e ) {// call could not be sent properly
          System.err.println( "Caught SOAPException= " + e.getFaultCode() + ", "
 + e.getMessage() );
       }
     }
   }

The SOAP::Lite server:

#!perl -w
# -- SOAP::Lite -- guide.soaplite.com -- Copyright (C) 2001 Paul Kulchenko --

use strict;

use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;

SOAP::Transport::HTTP::CGI
     -> dispatch_to('TWikiServices')
     -> handle;


package TWikiServices;


##
#subroutine for testing the SOAP server
##
sub hi
{
     my $var = SOAP::Data->type(string => 123);
     return $var;
}





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