Consuming webservices using CF8

[amigaNOR]

I recently upgraded to CF8 and I’m not able to consume webservices from my dev edition on my personal PC.

I have tried making my own simple test webservice, but I’m not able to consume them using CF. (I’m able to consume the ws using .Net or Java, but not from CF itself).

I always get the following error:

org.apache.axis.ConfigurationException: org.xml.sax.SAXException: Fatal Error: URI=null Line=40: The string "--" is not permitted within comments.

This is the code I’m using:

<cfscript>

wsargs = structnew();

wsargs.proxyServer = "proxy";

wsargs.proxyPort = "8080";

ws = createObject("webservice","http://ws.fraudlabs.com/zipcodeworldUS_webservice.asmx?wsdl",wsargs);

</cfscript>

I know that the WSDL is ok since the WS works in .Net and Java. I also know that I can retrieve the wsdl using

<cfhttp method="get" url="http://ws.fraudlabs.com/zipcodeworldUS_webservice.asmx?wsdl" result="myRes" proxyserver="proxy" proxyport="8080"/>

So why do I get the “The string "--" is not permitted within comments.” error?

I know that

1. I get the same error for all ws I try to consume from CF, even simple test ws made using CF.
2. The ws work, because I can consume them using .Net and Java.
3. CFINVOKE gives me the same error

Thanks,

Olav, Oslo, Norway

[Jo_Corless]

Have you tried the other methods of connecting to a webservice?

For instance by tag

<cfinvoke
              webservice="http://ws.fraudlabs.com/zipcodeworldUS_webservice.asmx?wsdl"
              method="post"
              returnvariable="httpResponse">
                <cfinvokeargument name="parameters" value="<xmlToSend>"/>

</cfinvoke>

Or by building up the CFHTTP call directly

<cfhttp
            url="http://ws.fraudlabs.com/zipcodeworldUS_webservice.asmx?wsdl"
            method="post"
            result="httpResponse">
            <cfhttpparam
                 type="header"
                 name="accept-encoding"
                value="no-compression"
             />
            <cfhttpparam
            type="header"
            name="SOAPAction"
            value="http://ws.fraudlabs.com/zipcodeworldUS_webservice"
            />
             <!---
                    When posting the SOAP body, use the CFHTTPParam type of
                    XML. This does two things: it posts the XML as a the BODY
                    and sets the mime-type to be XML.
            
                    NOTE: Be sure to Trim() your XML since XML data cannot be
                    parsed with leading whitespace.
                --->
            <cfhttpparam
                type="xml"
                value="#trim( orderXML )#"
                />
        </cfhttp>

I found fiddling around with all three methods of creating a webservice usually results in one that works

Regards

Joanne

[BKBK]

add the line:

wsargs.refreshWSDL="yes";