Got a project dumped on my plate that seemed pretty darned
simple to start with. Find a way to use the Sharepoint Webservices
to update and display data from Sharepoint Lists. Well, that
doesn't seem to bad. It's a webservice, it uses soap, just have to
connect to it and then pass information back and forth.
Turns out that it wasn't that simple. Basically we're
attempting to utilize the Lists.asmx sharepoint service. I have no
problem with the methods that take only simple type parameters
(strings, integers, etc). But the majority of the methods take one
or more "XmlNode" types. These things are in the WSDL as
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="updates">
<s:complexType mixed="true">
<s:sequence>
<s:any />
</s:sequence>
</s:complexType>
</s:element>
So the million dollar question is what the heck do I put in
my <cfinvokeargument> to pass that thing. Reading up on the
web I find that it shoudl be wanting an XML fragment that looks
something like this:
<Batch OnError = "Return" ListVersion="1" ViewName="">
<Method ID="1" Cmd="New">
<Field Name="ID">New</Field>
<Field Name="Title">My Test</Field>
</Method>
</Batch>
Again, seemed easy enough I used <cfxml> and created a
fragment. Then I put the variable into my <cfinvokeargument>
and blithly expected it to work. Instead I got an error
"java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: argument type mismatch". More
reading and I realized that I shoudl probably be just passing it as
a string. So I just put the XML right into my
<cfinvokeargument>. Got a new error:
Web service operation UpdateListItems with parameters
{listName={{EF36FF97-F57C-4D98-9087-0630EE337B98}},updates={NewMy
Test}} cannot be found.
So now with a string in there it can't find the stub. I've
gotten variations on the messages but pretty much it all boils down
to the same... it can't seem to access the webservice using those
darned complex types. If anyone has any input on this I'd love to
hear it. I tried drilling down to see what the underlying types are
and turns out that at the end of the day it's an array of
MessageElement. But I don't know how to instantiate that either so
it didn't really seem to help.
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