Question

I’m trying to use a simple wsdl file and make a soap call but for the life of me I can’t get it to work.

Here’s the wsdl file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wsdl:definitions targetNamespace="urn:gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_Generic" xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:s="urn:gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_Generic" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
 <wsdl:types>
  <xsd:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" targetNamespace="urn:gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_Generic">
   <xsd:element name="Submit" type="s:InputMapping"/>
   <xsd:complexType name="InputMapping">
    <xsd:sequence>
     <xsd:element name="Assigned_To_Group" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="AutoPush" type="s:AutoPushType"/>
     <xsd:element name="Case_Type" type="s:Case_TypeType"/>
     <xsd:element name="Category" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="Description" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="Details" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="Entry_Number" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="Integration_Application" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="Item" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="Priority" type="s:PriorityType"/>
     <xsd:element name="Source" type="s:SourceType"/>
     <xsd:element name="Submitter_UNIX" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="Summary" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="Type" type="xsd:string"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
   </xsd:complexType>
   <xsd:simpleType name="AutoPushType">
    <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
     <xsd:enumeration value="Auto Push"/>
    </xsd:restriction>
   </xsd:simpleType>
   <xsd:simpleType name="Case_TypeType">
    <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
     <xsd:enumeration value="Incident"/>
     <xsd:enumeration value="Question"/>
     <xsd:enumeration value="Request"/>
     <xsd:enumeration value="Problem"/>
    </xsd:restriction>
   </xsd:simpleType>
   <xsd:simpleType name="PriorityType">
    <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
     <xsd:enumeration value="4"/>
     <xsd:enumeration value="3"/>
     <xsd:enumeration value="2"/>
     <xsd:enumeration value="1"/>
    </xsd:restriction>
   </xsd:simpleType>
   <xsd:simpleType name="SourceType">
    <xsd:restriction base="xsd:string">
     <xsd:enumeration value="Phone"/>
     <xsd:enumeration value="Requester"/>
     <xsd:enumeration value="Email"/>
     <xsd:enumeration value="Web"/>
     <xsd:enumeration value="NMP"/>
    </xsd:restriction>
   </xsd:simpleType>
   <xsd:element name="SubmitResponse" type="s:OutputMapping"/>
   <xsd:complexType name="OutputMapping">
    <xsd:sequence>
     <xsd:element name="StagingTable_ID" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="HelpDesk_ID" type="xsd:string"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
   </xsd:complexType>
   <xsd:element name="AuthenticationInfo" type="s:AuthenticationInfo"/>
   <xsd:complexType name="AuthenticationInfo">
    <xsd:sequence>
     <xsd:element name="userName" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element name="password" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="authentication" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="locale" type="xsd:string"/>
     <xsd:element minOccurs="0" name="timeZone" type="xsd:string"/>
    </xsd:sequence>
   </xsd:complexType>
  </xsd:schema>
 </wsdl:types>
   <wsdl:message name="SubmitSoapOut">
      <wsdl:part element="s:SubmitResponse" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>
   <wsdl:message name="SubmitSoapIn">
      <wsdl:part element="s:Submit" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>
   <wsdl:message name="ARAuthenticate">
      <wsdl:part element="s:AuthenticationInfo" name="parameters"/>
   </wsdl:message>
   <wsdl:portType name="gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_GenericPortType">
      <wsdl:operation name="Submit">
         <wsdl:input message="s:SubmitSoapIn"/>
         <wsdl:output message="s:SubmitSoapOut"/>
      </wsdl:operation>
   </wsdl:portType>
   <wsdl:binding name="gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_GenericSoapBinding" type="s:gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_GenericPortType">
      <soap:binding style="document" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
      <wsdl:operation name="Submit">
         <soap:operation soapAction="urn:gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_Generic/Submit" style="document"/>
         <wsdl:input>
            <soap:header message="s:ARAuthenticate" part="parameters" use="literal"></soap:header>
            <soap:body use="literal"/>
         </wsdl:input>
         <wsdl:output>
            <soap:body use="literal"/>
         </wsdl:output>
      </wsdl:operation>
   </wsdl:binding>
   <wsdl:service name="gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_GenericService">
  <wsdl:documentation>Generic Submit for HD</wsdl:documentation>
      <wsdl:port binding="s:gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_GenericSoapBinding" name="gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_GenericSoap">
         <soap:address location="http://servename:1234/midtier/services/ARService?server=servername&amp;webService=gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_Generic"/>
      </wsdl:port>
   </wsdl:service>
</wsdl:definitions>

Here’s my php code:

$params = array( 
  "Submitter_UNIX"=>'myunix', 
  "Source"=>'Web', 
  "Summary"=>'Test1', 
  "Description"=>'Test1', 
  "Category"=>'test services', 
  "Type"=>'test s', 
  "Item"=>'Problem', 
  "Assigned_To_Group"=>'test s', 
  "Case_Type"=>'Problem', 
  "Priority"=>'4', 
  "AutoPush" => 'Auto Push', 
  "Details"=>'Test Details', 
  "Entry_Number"=>'', 
  "Integration_Application"=>'MyDev' 
); 

$client = new SoapClient('http://servername:1234/midtier/WSDL/servername/gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_Generic',array('trace' => 1 )); 


$result = $client->Submit($params);  

But I don’t know how to set the authentication headers for the soap call. any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

There’s some good authentication examples on the PHP manual page for SoapClient (under the ‘options’ parameter info). For example, if you need to do basic HTTP authentication then you’d write something like this:

$url = "http://servername:1234/midtier/WSDL/servername/gnHPD_Staging_Table_Submit_Generic";

$params = array(
    'trace' => 1,
    'login' => "some_name",
    'password' => "some_password"
);

$client = new SoapClient($url, $params);

If you aren’t able to authenticate through one of the standard mechanisms, then perhaps it can be done through the service (without some documentation it’s hard to tell). There’s an AuthenticationInfo entry which may serve that purpose – in which case you’d do something like:

$params = array('userName' => 'username', 'password' => 'password');
$client->AuthenticationInfo($params);