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Michel_van_der_
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Nov 01, 2005

Debug tools for XML SOAP messages

I'm struggling a bit with some of the more complex call to iControl using perl and SOAP::Lite. At times I want   to look at the XML messages and see if they are compliant with the API. I'm using 't...
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Michel_van_der_
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Nov 03, 2005
Well, I tried something like that, but I kept getting 500 errors back. However, I think that was because iControl was not happy with the undef I had originally. So, let me go back and code it like you did, which I agree is much more elegant.

 

 

BTW, I spent a fair bit of time with the SOAP::Lite serializer and it is clear that's not an easy nut to crack!

 

 

As an aside, it may be worthwhile to add an example like that to the SDK. I don't think I saw an example of a 'complex structure' call using perl, but I may have missed it.

 

 

Michel