Anyone using SOAP from iPhone?

[Tim Perrett]

Hey chaps,

Has anyone successfully created an iphone soap client yet? If so, can
they point me in the right direction?

Any help / advice would be appreciated

Tim

[Tim Perrett]

No doubt people have seen this:

http://code.google.com/p/mac-soapclient/

Thoughts about leveraging it onto the iphone?

Tim

[James Ottaway]

I found this when researching SOAP in the iPhone SDK:
http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2008/06/web-services-core.html

A friend is looking into writing a Rails wrapper for SOAP and calling
that instead.

He was also wondering whether this could be ported to the iPhone
(unlikely): http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/

James

[Tim Perrett]

WebServices core is not part of the platform SDK so I know you cant
use it. I played with making a wrapper around the soap service and
transmitting binary stream using HessianKit, but now I have just gone
back to writing a whole bunch of C and CoreFoundation to make it work.

It seems to be working ok so far - its just a very manual and un-
decoupled way of doing it unfortunately.

Personally, I don't like axis anyway, it generates so much verbose
code its crazy. I'd say there was a limited chance of porting it, as
the vast majority of dependencies it has wouldn't be available on the
platform.

It would be nice if someone could write a generator which would create
the relevant CoreFoundation and C code required to do this type of
work as its just so manual its crazy. I cant help but feel like Apple
really did drop the ball massively here...

Cheers

Tim

[Lost]

Hi Tim

If possible, can you share the code on the forum?

Regards

On Aug 22, 4:00 pm, Tim Perrett <he...@timperrett.com> wrote:
> WebServices core is not part of the platform SDK so I know you cant  

> use it. I played with making a wrapper around thesoapservice and  

> transmitting binary stream using HessianKit, but now I have just gone  
> back to writing a whole bunch of C and CoreFoundation to make it work.
>
> It seems to be working ok so far - its just a very manual and un-
> decoupled way of doing it unfortunately.
>
> Personally, I don't like axis anyway, it generates so much verbose  
> code its crazy. I'd say there was a limited chance of porting it, as  
> the vast majority of dependencies it has wouldn't be available on the  
> platform.
>
> It would be nice if someone could write a generator which would create  
> the relevant CoreFoundation and C code required to do this type of  
> work as its just so manual its crazy. I cant help but feel like Apple  
> really did drop the ball massively here...
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim
>
> On 22 Aug 2008, at 11:53, James Ottaway wrote:
>

> > I found this when researchingSOAPin the iPhone SDK:
> >http://iphonedevelopment.blogspot.com/2008/06/web-services-core.html
>
> > A friend is looking into writing a Rails wrapper forSOAPand calling

[Joseph Heck]

If you're looking for source and "how to do it", you might check out
http://ditchnet.org/soapclient/

-joe

[Larry Whipple]

I'm dealing with SOAP on the iPhone as well, but this is from a Dashcode
app. Any suggestions on that one? I'm finding that a standard SOAP-based
web service doesn't play nice with XMLHttpRequest on Safari - especially
given the cross-domain limitations (I'm getting a lot of access denied).
Suggestions?

L.

Larry