"SOAP::Sanity" - a guide for building complex data types

Paul has written a good guide of how to encode complex data structures and schemas in SOAP::Lite.

Byrne and others have posted some good stuff (see for example the majordojo soaplite archive and this hands-on tour at builder.com), but mostly you'll find the experiences shared go along lines like "...after hacking around for a bit, I found that this worked...".

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If I hadn't made this pledge, I could have abandoned the project — particularly after spotting Mr Baby Arm, whom I presume is also trying to improve himself. And that's the rub. If you're born with one of these ridiculous organs, there are times when just about every man feels short-changed.
The average size of an erect penis is about 15.24 centimetres — six inches in the old money. (When talking about penis size, it's traditional to use inches.) The sad thing is it seems there are many men living fretfully with a ruler in one hand and a world of hope in the other. To meet some of these people, return to http://enlargepenisguide.com — and log on to the "progress reports" forum. You'll find men apparently taking the pills, diligently jelqing (stretching a flaccid penis) and sharing how it's hanging. Like Nicky: "I'm 21, and, measured from the pelvic bone, the length of my penis is around 7.5 inches, but I've always wanted to be large like a porn star. I've been doing the exercise a few days now …"
Occasionally, someone claims spectacular results. The simple reason is that the pills — herbal aphrodisiacs, not muscle-building proteins — give little more than an illusion of growth by concentrating blood in the otherwise shrivelled underbelly. But the real joke is that the more anxious one becomes about penis size, the more it is likely to shrink.
"The curious thing about our society, most of the time we pretend that the penis doesn't shrink," says David Mitchell, a doctor and a medical anthropologist. "In fact, the penis doesn't have a set flaccid size. It's actually meaningless to measure the size of the penis because it varies from minute to minute according to the temperature and one's state of mind. The trouble is, if you get anxious, it only makes it smaller, to the point where it can disappear … in cases where anxiety spirals into a panic attack."
Dr Mitchell has researched a recent outbreak of these attacks — known as "shrinking penis disease" — on the Indonesian island of Flores, where black magic is widely practised. In these instances, the sufferer believes he will die if his penis disappears. The last outbreak in a modern society occurred in Singapore in 1962, following a rumour that eating pork vaccinated against swine fever would cause shrinking penis disease.
"There were people rushing through the streets holding their penises … some of them using chopsticks," Dr Mitchell says. "As soon as they hit the hospital and started to relax, they came back to normal."
Dr Mitchell says the disease could re-emerge in the Western world. "It could come back again in our society if someone spread the right stories around," he says.
Chris Fox, of La Trobe University, is doing a PhD on penis size and its role in body image. So far, he has interviewed 15 men aged 20 to 75. "The short answer is that every man at some point in his life worries about the size of his penis," Mr Fox says. "If we don't like our penis we won't enjoy sex. For people with a pathological issue with penis size, it will affect their sex life.
"In some cases it will affect how they behave around other men. And one has to remember that most people make their comparison with a flaccid penis — at the urinal or in a change room. The only erections we tend to see are the very big penises on porn stars … and my interview subjects didn't feel threatened by these giant penises because they felt they weren't real. It's in the real world that anxiety takes root."

[David Toso]

I don't ever hand-construct SOAP data-types.

On the server-side I use Pod::WSDL to properly build the WSDL for my services, including any complex types (from properly pod-annotated classes). Pod::WSDL is missing many features that can be used to specify valid messages, however I have not found this to be a problem in practice, for any of the client languages I've tried.

On the client-side I use SOAP::WSDL (a SOAP::Lite subclass) to talk to webservices by first consuming the WSDL they publish, including any complex types.

From a client-side perspective, I've had little trouble talking to webservices written in perl, java, .Net, and python. Usually just a matter of determining what on_action should do, and which encoding scheme to use... all based on the published WSDL.

Have I missed the difficult part somewhere?

[kameron cole]

I'm trying to post with some XML and Perl in my comment, but the site keeps rejecting me, suspoecting spam (oddly, the site seems to allow comments like the one on pernis enlargment).

I need some help with SOAP::Lite. Can some one clue me in on how to post comments with code snippets in them?

thanks

[Proflogistics]

From a client-side perspective, I've had little trouble talking to webservices written in perl, java, .Net, and python. Usually just a matter of determining what on_action should do, and which encoding scheme to use... all based on the published WSDL.

[TMaxim]

Where are I can find standart of published WSDL?

Max

[TMaxim]

Mostly you'll find the experiences shared go along lines like "...after hacking around for a bit, I found that this worked...".

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[Mike Taylor]

So is this module completely dead, or merely moribund? Is anyone actually maintaining it? Is anyone even using it? (Successfully, I mean.)

[bogmarley]

what perl???

[traavar]

Hi Scott,
I really enjoyed 'Did You Know?' and had no trouble with the global-alarmism. I'm concerned that you feel the need to downplay the global-alarmism and to make the presentation attractive. As an educator and administrator, I feel that far too often we sacrifice reality for a dose of whatever feels good, whatever makes everyone happy, or whatever looks visually appealing. Your initial project was on target. Why water it down...and for whom...and to what end? Hopefully you’re not ashamed of the good work you did, or that you’re feeling politically compelled to “make others happy” as we educators so often do.

"Karl and I are working with XPLANE to update the Did You Know? video because it seems to resonate with folks. We’re going to update some of the facts, reframe some of the slides, turn down some of the global alarmism, and turn up the visual attractiveness several notches."

What will be served by turning down some of the global alarmism? What will be served by making it visually appealing?

Look at the excerpt below from a recent CNN article:
“I'm not alone in the view that free-trade-at-all-costs has harmed American workers. Princeton University economist and former Federal Reserve Board vice chairman Alan S. Blinder has joined Nobel laureates Paul Samuelson and Joseph Stiglitz and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers as skeptics of the benefits the faith-based economists in this administration love to tout.

Blinder is now stating loudly that a new industrial revolution will put as many as 40 million American jobs at risk of being shipped out of the country in the next decade or two. Blinder has said, "Economists who insist that 'offshore outsourcing' is just a routine extension of international trade are overlooking how major a transformation it will likely bring -- and how significant the consequences could be. The governments and societies of the developed world must start preparing, and fast."

Scott, while this information itself may turn out to be totally inaccurate (who knows?), I don't think educators need to be sugar coating the impact of globalism. Not trying to sound rude here, but simply saying that we need to face the music rather than burying our heads in the sand. The potential of loosing 40 million jobs in a decade or two is nothing that needs to be “turned down” or made “visually appealing.”

Outsourcing is already happening rather quickly. It’s even happening within the field of education as students can now be tutored from abroad. This is nothing new:

I could continue giving example after example, but will stop here. Believe in what you say, “We need action on multiple fronts: schools, universities, policymakers, business people, local communities. But we can’t start moving without having some important conversations. So with that in mind…”

So with that in mind, important conversations can NOT happen unless educators begin dealing with reality – not appealing words and pretty pictures.

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