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# csoap
A lightweight C++ SOAP client library.
[中文版介绍](https://segmentfault.com/a/1190000009874151)
## Usage
A lightweight C++ SOAP client & server library based on Boost.Asio.
NOTE: The server part is currently under development, not stable enough to be used in a real production.
## Client Usage
Firstly, please install SoapUI if you don't have it. We need SoapUI to generate sample requests for each web service operation. The open source version is good enough.
Take the calculator web service provided by ParaSoft as an example. Download the WSDL from http://ws1.parasoft.com/glue/calculator.wsdl, create a SOAP project within SoapUI (remember to check "Create sample requests for all operations?"), you will see the sample request for "add" operation as the following:
Take the calculator web service provided by ParaSoft as an example. Download the WSDL from http://ws1.parasoft.com/glue/calculator.wsdl, create a SOAP project within SoapUI (remember to check "**Create sample requests for all operations?**"), you will see the sample request for "add" operation as the following:
```xml
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:cal="http://www.parasoft.com/wsdl/calculator/">
<soapenv:Header/>
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</soapenv:Envelope>
```
In order to call the "add" operation, we have to send a HTTP request with the above SOAP envelope as the content. Let's see how to do this with csoap.
```cpp
bool Add() {
// Create a SOAP request.
csoap::SoapRequest soap_request("add");
// Set the service namespace.
csoap::Namespace service_ns = { "cal", "http://www.parasoft.com/wsdl/calculator/" };
soap_request.set_service_ns(service_ns);
// Add parameters for the operation.
soap_request.AddParameter("x", "1.0");
soap_request.AddParameter("y", "2.0");
// Generate the XML string for the SOAP envelope.
std::string http_request_body;
soap_request.ToXmlString(&http_request_body);
In order to call the "add" operation, we have to send a HTTP request with the above SOAP envelope as the content. Let's see how to do this with *csoap*.
// Create a HTTP request.
csoap::HttpRequest http_request(csoap::kHttpV11);
Firstly, create a class `CalculatorClient` which is derived from `csoap::SoapClient`:
// Set the HTTP request headers.
http_request.set_url("/glue/calculator");
http_request.set_content_length(http_request_body.size());
http_request.set_host("ws1.parasoft.com", "");
http_request.set_soap_action("add");
// Send the HTTP request and get the HTTP response.
csoap::HttpResponse http_response;
```cpp
#include <string>
#include "csoap/soap_client.h"
csoap::HttpClient http_client;
csoap::ErrorCode ec = http_client.SendRequest(http_request,
http_request_body,
&http_response);
class CalculatorClient : public csoap::SoapClient {
public:
CalculatorClient() {
Init();
}
```
// Error handling.
if (ec != csoap::kNoError) {
std::cerr << csoap::GetErrorMessage(ec) << std::endl;
Initialize the URL, host, port, etc. in `Init()`:
```cpp
private:
void Init() {
url_ = "/glue/calculator";
host_ = "ws1.parasoft.com";
port_ = ""; // Default to "80".
service_ns_ = { "cal", "http://www.parasoft.com/wsdl/calculator/" };
result_name_ = "Result";
}
```
Because four calculator operations (*add*, *subtract*, *multiply* and *divide*) all have two parameters, we create a wrapper for `SoapClient::Call()`, name is as `Calc`:
```cpp
bool Calc(const std::string& operation,
const std::string& x_name,
const std::string& y_name,
double x,
double y,
double* result) {
// Prepare parameters.
csoap::Parameter parameters[] = {
{ x_name, x },
{ y_name, y }
};
// Make the call.
std::string result_str;
if (!Call(operation, parameters, 2, &result_str)) {
return false;
}
// Parse the SOAP response.
std::string result;
csoap::SoapResponse soap_response;
if (!soap_response.Parse(http_response.content(), "addResponse", "Result", &result)) {
// Convert the result from string to double.
try {
*result = boost::lexical_cast<double>(result_str);
} catch (boost::bad_lexical_cast&) {
return false;
}
std::cout << result << std::endl;
return true;
}
```
It's not that complicated. But you can't code like this for each operation. You have to do some encapsulation, make a general function, add a base class, and so on. Check the "demo" folder for the detailed example.
Finally, we implement the four operations simply as the following:
```cpp
bool Add(double x, double y, double* result) {
return Calc("add", "x", "y", x, y, result);
}
bool Subtract(double x, double y, double* result) {
return Calc("subtract", "x", "y", x, y, result);
}
bool Multiply(double x, double y, double* result) {
return Calc("multiply", "x", "y", x, y, result);
}
bool Divide(double x, double y, double* result) {
return Calc("divide", "numerator", "denominator", x, y, result);
}
```
See? It's not that complicated. Check folder ***demo/calculator_client*** for the full example.
## Server Usage
TODO
## Limitations
- Only support HTTP 1.1.
- Only support `int`, `double`, `bool` and `string` parameters.
- Only support UTF-8 encoded content.
- One connection one call.
- Connection is in synchronous (or blocking) mode; timeout (default to 30s) is configurable.
## Dependencies
- The TCP socket client is based on Boost.Asio.
- The XML parsing is based on TinyXml or PugiXml, a macro `CSOAP_USE_TINYXML` controls which one to use.
- Build system is CMake, but it should be easy to integrate into your project.
- Boost.Asio is used for both client and server.
- XML processing is based on PugiXml, which is already included in the source tree.
- Build system is CMake, but it should be quite easy to integrate into your own project.

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#include <string>
#include "csoap/soap_client.h"
class CalculatorClient : csoap::SoapClient {
class CalculatorClient : public csoap::SoapClient {
public:
CalculatorClient();

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