WebServices and XMLDocuments

[tinybloke]

I have a .NET webservice that returns an XMLDocument



[WebMethod]

public XmlDocument PriceGet()

{

string sDoc = "<testXML><User FName='Bingo'
SName='Little' /></testXML>";

XmlDocument oDoc = new XmlDocument();

oDoc.LoadXml(sDoc);

return oDoc;

}



I have created the following WebService in Flex Builder





<mx:WebService id="Dashboardws1"

wsdl="
http://localhost/Dashboardws/dashboardservices.asmx?wsdl"

useProxy="false"

showBusyCursor="true"

fault="Alert.show(event.message.toString())"

result="PriceGetHandler(event)">

<mx:operation name="PriceGet">

<mx:request/>

</mx:operation>

</mx:WebService>

[tinybloke]

Apologies...first post and it went out half-cocked



Here is the full post



I have a .NET webservice that returns an XMLDocument



[WebMethod]

public XmlDocument PriceGet()

{

string sDoc = "<testXML><User FName='Bingo'
SName='Little' /></testXML>";

XmlDocument oDoc = new XmlDocument();

oDoc.LoadXml(sDoc);

return oDoc;

}



I have created the following WebService in Flex Builder



<mx:WebService id="Dashboardws1"

wsdl="
http://localhost/Dashboardws/dashboardservices.asmx?wsdl"

useProxy="false"

showBusyCursor="true"

fault="Alert.show(event.message.toString())"

result="PriceGetHandler(event)">

<mx:operation name="PriceGet">

<mx:request/>

</mx:operation>

</mx:WebService>



I have checked the message that is coming back



(mx.messaging.messages::AcknowledgeMessage)#0

body = "<?xml version="1.0"
encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><PriceGetResponse><PriceGetResult><testXML
xmlns=""><User FName="Bingo" SName="Little"
/></testXML></PriceGetResult></PriceGetResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>"

clientId = "DirectHTTPChannel0"

correlationId = "56648983-5FBD-C1C2-37CF-75F0BB1D927A"

destination = ""

headers = (Object)#1

messageId = "F5D83181-12DD-67E4-7E41-75F0BC07890C"

timestamp = 0

timeToLive = 0



but for the life of me I can't get to the data that the
message contains.



Referencing Dashboardws.PriceGet.lastResult give me a null as
do all other combinations I can think of



Has anybody got any thoughts? My remaining hair is in some
danger here

[aglosband]

Hi. What does your code look like where you handle the result
from the web service? Do you have a result handler, ie.
PriceGetHandler(event), or are you trying to databind to the
result?

[tinybloke]

Thanks for the response



I do have an event handler. Since the original post I have
made the following progress.



If I alter the return type to e4x and create a local
namespace like this



private namespace utx = "
http://www.xxxxxx.net/";

use namespace utx;



I can access the data as an XMLListCollection in the event
handler



colPriceXML = new
XMLListCollection(event.result.PriceGetResult.root.children());



Whilst this works I am still interested as to how I can
access this data in other ways (e.g. as an ArrayCollection which is
what I have been doing with HTTPServices.) I have seen plenty of
example code where returning a XMLDocument from a C# webservice
seems routine but not many of these seem to work in practice