SOAP examples

Tue, Mar 27, 2001; by Jake Savin.

Request example

POST /examples HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Radio UserLand/7.0 (MacOS)
Host: localhost:81
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-length: 474
SOAPAction: "/examples"


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">
 	<SOAP-ENV:Body>
  		<m:getStateName xmlns:m="http://soapware.org/">
    			<param1 xsi:type="xsd:int">41</param1>
     		</m:getStateName>
  		</SOAP-ENV:Body>
 	</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Simple types

Type value	Type	Example
xsd:int or xsd:integer	32-bit signed integer	-12
xsd:boolean	a boolean value, true or false	true
xsd:string	string of characters	hello world
xsd:float or xsd:double	signed floating point number	-12.214
xsd:timeInstant	date/time	2001-03-27T00:00:01-08:00
xsd:base64	base64-encoded binary	eW91IGNhbid0IHJlYWQgdGhpcyE=

Struct example

<param>
  <lowerBound xsi:type="xsd:int">18</lowerBound>
  <upperBound xsi:type="xsd:int">139</upperBound>
  </param>

Array example

<param SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:ur-type[4]">
  <item xsi:type="xsd:int">12</item>
  <item xsi:type="xsd:string">Egypt</item>
  <item xsi:type="xsd:boolean">false</item>
  <item xsi:type="xsd:int">-31</item>
  </param>

Response example

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Length: 499
Content-Type: text/xml
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 05:05:04 GMT
Server: UserLand Frontier/7.0-MacOS


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">
 	<SOAP-ENV:Body>
	  	<getStateNameResponse>
	    		<Result xsi:type="xsd:string">South Dakota</Result>
	    		</getStateNameResponse>
  		</SOAP-ENV:Body>
 	</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Fault example

HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error
Connection: close
Content-Length: 511
Content-Type: text/xml
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 05:06:32 GMT
Server: UserLand Frontier/7.0-MacOS


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance">
	 <SOAP-ENV:Body>
	  	<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
	    		<faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Client</faultcode>
	    		<faultstring>
         Can’t call “getStateName” because there are too many parameters.
         </faultstring>
	    		</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
  		</SOAP-ENV:Body>
 	</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>