[fw-webservices] Re: [PHP] Re: DocBlocking SOAP types.

On 16 February 2010 18:20, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote:
> Richard Quadling wrote:
>> On 16 February 2010 16:41, Nathan Rixham <nrixham@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Nathan Rixham wrote:
>>>> Richard Quadling wrote:
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to docblock a set of properties to be xml primitive datatypes [1].
>>>>>
>>>>> Considering that this is the correct type for the XML/SOAP/WSDL
>>>>> communication, how do I "bypass" Zend_WSDL / Zend_AutoDiscovery so
>>>>> that these types go through cleanly. I know that as far as PHP is
>>>>> concerned, the type is loose and it will be my responsibility to
>>>>> encode the values accordingly. It is in the WSDL generation, and hence
>>>>> the docblocks, that I want these types to be valid.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think I can achieve this by the following steps.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1 - Create a new concrete class from the
>>>>> Zend_Soap_Wsdl_Strategy_Abstract abstract class, say
>>>>> Zend_Soap_Wsdl_Strategy_W3C (as the type are defined by W3C).
>>>>> 2 - Implement the addComplexType() method to validate the type against
>>>>> the list and return it if is OK.
>>>>>
>>>>> What I am stuck on is how do I cascade from the new class so that I
>>>>> can still drop back to the Zend_Soap_Wsdl_Strategy_ArrayOfTypeComplex.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the Zend_Soap_Wsdl_Strategy_Composite is of use here, but I
>>>>> can't quite work out how to use it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Richard Quadling.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#built-in-primitive-datatypes
>>>>>
>>>> AFAIK the Zend Soap WSDL accessor already maps up php types to xsd
>>>> types; a PHP String maps to an xsd:string, integer to xsd:int and so forth.
>>>>
>>>> XML schema 1.1 datatypes are pretty much the same as; and backwards
>>>> compatible with the current xml schema datatypes (which are still the
>>>> recommended standard, as 1.1 isn't a recommendation yet, work in
>>>> progress) and use the same namespace. Thus the existing implementation
>>>> should be xml w3c complaint both now and in the future.
>>>>
>>>> All that's said purely based on the zend docs [1] and not through
>>>> practically using Zend_Soap_Wsdl_* though!
>>>
>>> sigh.. [1] = http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.soap.wsdl.html
>>> (specifically Type mapping) - might make more sense now!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I think you've missed the point.
>
> totally!
>
>> I want to tell the outside world, via the WSDL,  that property X is an
>> xsd:datetime (hmm ok, for that to make sense forget PHP's DateTime
>> builtin class)
>>
>> How do I do that using AutoDiscovery?
>>
>> PHP doesn't have all the types that I can ask for.
>>
>> If I use PHP's types, they are all strings. So any junk can be put in.
>>
>> The consumer of the service isn't PHP, but (I believe) C#. So strongly typed.
>>
>>
>> It isn't about mapping PHP "types"  to W3C types.
>
> and now i completely follow after downloading the Zend code - which
> strategy are you currently using / need to use? either way I guess the
> two simplest approaches would either be:
>
> 1: create a class which extends
> Zend_Soap_Wsdl_Strategy_YOURCURRENTSTRATEGYCHOICE , and implement the
> addComplexType() method adding in all the xsd extra types and then
> calling parent::addComplexType when not found.
>
> 2: create a class which extends Zend_Soap_Wsdl and overrides the
> getType() method adding in all the xsd extra types and then calling
> parent::getType when not found.
>
> regards!
>
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I've extended the ArrayOfComplexType strategy as this is the most
common one for me.

Overwrote the addComplexType to parse the type (xsd:xxxx where xxxx is
in the known list).

Generates the WSDL just fine.

Now need to see what the client can do with that.

(Tomorrow).

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