SOAP::Lite for Perl

uri and use_prefix deprecated in next release

I have seen a lot of support requests recently asking about setting default namespaces and the like. As a result, I will be introducing some changes to the API that I believe makes this task much more intuitive. Of course, changing the API should not be done lightly, especially to a subroutine like uri which is used by every installation of SOAP::Lite on the planet - one way or another. So it will be slowly phased out. So what are these changes, you ask?

First, there are two new subroutines added to SOAP::Serializer and also made available through SOAP::Lite as a shortcut, they are: default_ns() and ns(). They set the namespace URI of a request while at the same time express how that namespace should be serialized - either as a default namespace or as a declared namespace. Second, to provide a more intuitive name, use_prefix is being deprecated in favor of one of the aforementioned subroutines. Finally, uri() is also being deprecated for similar reasons. It's name never did make that much sense to me, and I am hoping that ns() is more intuitive.

Keep reading to see the man page entries for these new subroutines.

Go get 0.65_4

Thanks to the many issues that people submitted since the last release in S::L's bug database, I had more than enough work to do. I admit, more bugs remain, but there are improvements in 0.65_4 that I would hate to keep from people, including some much needed enhancements to stubmaker.pl. Go get it on CPAN or Sourceforge.