SOAP webservice, how to?

[vidihermes]

Hi Fellows, I am new to SOAP or any webservices technology, but i have a project to connect an online travel agent (OTA) website to Channel Manager called Siteminder, and here is their docs

https://siteminder.atlassian.net/wiki/display/SITECONNECT/Retrieve+Rooms

But unfortunately i don’t even understand what is this, how can i create a SOAP server in CI which able to produce this xml below ( precisely as written in this docs )

<OTA HotelAvailRQ Versi TimeStamp=“2005-08-01T09:30:47+02:00” EchoToken=“fb57388d” AvailRates>
  <AvailRequestSegments>
  <AvailRequestSegment AvailReqType=“Room”>
    <HotelSearchCriteria>
      <Criterion>
      <HotelRef HotelCode=“HOTEL1”>
      </Criterion>
    </HotelSearchCriteria>
  </AvailRequestSegment>
  </AvailRequestSegments>
</OTA_HotelAvailRQ>

and this xml as the response of previous xml (if it submitted)

<OTA HotelAvailRS Versi TimeStamp=“2005-08-01T09:30:47+02:00” EchoToken=“abc123”>
  <Success>
  <RoomStays>
  <RoomStay>
    <RoomTypes>
      <RoomType RoomTypeCode=“SGL”>
      <RoomDescription Name=“Single Room”>
      </RoomType>
    </RoomTypes>
  </RoomStay>
  <RoomStay>
    <RoomTypes>
      <RoomType RoomTypeCode=“DBX”>
      <RoomDescription Name=“Deluxe Double Room”>
      </RoomType>
    </RoomTypes>
  </RoomStay>
  <RoomStay>
    <RoomTypes>
      <RoomType RoomTypeCode=“DBL”>
      <RoomDescription Name=“Standard Double Room”>
      </RoomType>
    </RoomTypes>
  </RoomStay>
  </RoomStays>
</OTA_HotelAvailRS>

 

please kinly help me, and many thanks in advance…

 

[vidihermes]

the problem is partially solved now. i think nuSOAP is very helpful, i write PHP code shown below, and the 'SOAP request' problem is partially solved.
 

<?php

require_once('lib/nusoap.php');

 

$server = new nusoap_server;

 

$server->configureWSDL('server','http://localhost/myweb');

 

$server->wsdl->schemaTargetNamespace = 'http://localhost/myweb';



$server->wsdl->addComplexType(

    'AvailRequestSegments',

    'complexType',

    'struct',

    'all',

    '',

    array(

        'AvailRequestSegment' => array('name' => 'AvailRequestSegment', 'type' => 'tns:AvailRequestSegment')

           )

);



$server->wsdl->addComplexType(

    'AvailRequestSegment',

    'complexType',

    'struct',

    'all',

    '',

    array(

        'AvailReqType'=>array('name'=>'AvailReqType','type'=>'xsd:string','value'=>'Room'),

        'HotelSearchCriteria' => array('name' => 'HotelSearchCriteria', 'type' => 'tns:HotelSearchCriteria')

           )

);



$server->wsdl->addComplexType(

    'HotelSearchCriteria',

    'complexType',

    'struct',

    'all',

    '',

    array(

        'Criterion' => array('name' => 'Criterion', 'type' => 'tns:Criterion')

           )

);



$server->wsdl->addComplexType(

    'Criterion',

    'complexType',

    'struct',

    'all',

    '',

    array(

        'HotelRef' => array('name' => 'HotelRef', 'type' => 'tns:HotelRef')

           )

);



$server->wsdl->addComplexType(

    'HotelRef',

    'complexType',

    'struct',

    'all',

    '',

    array(

        'HotelCode' => array('name' => 'HotelCode', 'type' => 'xsd:string')

           )

);



/*---------------------------segment response---------------------------------------------*/



$server->wsdl->addComplexType(

    'RoomStays',

    'complexType',

    'struct',

    'all',

    '',

    array(

        'RoomStay' => array('name' => 'RoomStay', 'type' => 'tns:RoomStay')

           )

);



$server->wsdl->addComplexType(

    'RoomStay',

    'complexType',

    'struct',

    'all',

    '',

    array(

        'RoomTypes' => array('name' => 'RoomTypes', 'type' => 'tns:RoomTypes')

           )

);



$server->wsdl->addComplexType(

    'RoomTypes',

    'complexType',

    'struct',

    'all',

    '',

    array(

        'RoomType' => array('name' => 'RoomType', 'type' => 'tns:RoomType')

           )

);



$server->wsdl->addComplexType(

    'RoomType',

    'complexType',

    'struct',

    'all',

    '',

    array(

        'RoomTypeCode'=>array('name'=>'RoomTypeCode','type'=>'xsd:string'),

        'RoomDescription' => array('name' => 'RoomDescription', 'type' => 'tns:RoomDescription')

           )

);



$server->wsdl->addComplexType(

    'RoomDescription',

    'complexType',

    'struct',

    'all',

    '',

    array(

        'Name' => array('name' => 'Name', 'type' => 'xsd:string')

           )

);



$server->register('OTA_HotelAvailRQ',

   array('AvailRequestSegments'=>'tns:AvailRequestSegments'),

   array('RoomStays'=>'tns:RoomStays'),

   'http://localhost/myweb',

   'http://localhost/myweb#SayHello');





function OTA_HotelAvailRQ($param)

{

           return array(

  'success'=>'success',

  'RoomTypeCode'=>'SGL',

  'Name'=>'single room'

 );    

}



$HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA = isset($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA) ? $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA : '';

 

$server->service($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA);

?>

and the rest of my problem is, how to insert 'some data' into complex types i created, i have try this

return array(

  'success'=>'success',

  'RoomTypeCode'=>'SGL',

  'Name'=>'single room'

 );   

but it won't work, and the SOAP response is :

<SOAP-ENV Envelope SOAP-ENV:encoding xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:tns="http://localhost/myweb">

   <SOAP-ENV:Body>

      <ns1:OTA_HotelAvailRQResponse xmlns:ns1="http://localhost/myweb">

         <RoomStays xsi:type="tns:RoomStays"/>

      </ns1:OTA_HotelAvailRQResponse>

   </SOAP-ENV:Body>

</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

and finally the last thing i have to solve is, i don't know how to put AvailReqType="Room" attribute inside the < AvailRequestSegment> as shown below

<AvailRequestSegment AvailReqType="Room">

it's very appreciate if somebody would like to help me... thanks in advance..

Edited September 12, 2013 by vidihermes