API wrapper best practices?

[Ashley Hindmarsh]

On 26 March 2013 13:14, Mark Overmeer <mark at overmeer.net> wrote:

> * Ashley Hindmarsh (ash+perl at best-scarper.co.uk) [130326 12:26]:
> > I was using SOAP::WSDL as it reached v2.0 (ca. 2007).
>
> Martin Kutter (maintainer of SOAP::Lite and SOAP::WSDL) told me that,
> in his opinion, the modules were on their end: SOAP message are often
> too complex nowadays.  He does fix bugs, now and then.
>

Thanks Mark. I was patching some bugs for Martin back then.  SOAP interop
is hell.



>
> > It features a complete wrapping of XML Schema data types, from which a
> Perl
> > wrapper (accessors etc) can be generated, although you have to live with
> > that minimalism (e.g. all arrays + containers - no mappings).
> > Just wonder if the XML Schema wrapping could be extracted for use with
> > RESTful APIs which have well-defined schemas (I guess I may have just
> > volunteered)
>
> As Gianni correctly states: that is what XML::Compile(::SOAP) is doing.
> It has many users.
>

Gianni? I guess I'll see that on the next digest.
thanks,
  Ash


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