Using PocketSOAP from .NET

Note: As the Compact Framework doesn't include COM Interop support, this will only work with the desktop version of .NET, not the Compact Framework version.

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Tony Hong (of XMethods fame) sent me this one. First off generate a .NET assembly from the com DLL, to do this, run tlbimp "c:\program files\simonfell\pocketSOAP1.2\psoap32.dll" this should build you a .NET PocketSOAP.dll, then import the PocketSOAP namespace/assembly as normal in C#, e.g.

using PocketSOAP;
using System;

public class test
{
	public static void Main(string[] args)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("Starting C# PocketSOAP for echoString");
		CoEnvelope soap=new CoEnvelope();
		HTTPTransport h=new HTTPTransport();
		soap.MethodName="echoString";
		soap.URI="urn:xmethodsInterop";
		soap.Parameters.Create("inputString", "Hello World", "", null, null);
		h.SOAPAction = "http://soapinterop.org/" ;
		h.Send ( "http://www.whitemesa.net/interop/std", soap.Serialize() );
		soap.Parse(h, null);
		Console.WriteLine(soap.Parameters.get_Item(0).Value);
	}
}

Build the C# as normal remembering to add a reference to the PocketSOAP.dll, e.g.

csc test.cs /r:pocketSOAP.dll

Here's an example I put together that handles arrays.

using PocketSOAP;
using System;

public class test
{
	public static void Main(string[] args)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("Starting C# PocketSOAP for echoStringArray");

		CoEnvelope soap = new CoEnvelope();
		HTTPTransport h = new HTTPTransport();
		soap.MethodName = "echoStringArray";
		soap.URI        = "http://soapinterop.org/";
		
		Object[] sa = new Object[2];
		sa[0] = "hello";
		sa[1] = "goodbye";
		soap.Parameters.Create ( "inputStringArray", sa, "", null,null ) ;

		Console.WriteLine("Encoding style: "+soap.EncodingStyle);
		Console.WriteLine("Method Name : "+soap.MethodName);
		Console.WriteLine("URI : "+soap.URI);

		Console.WriteLine(soap.Serialize());
		h.SOAPAction = "http://soapinterop.org/" ;
		h.Send("http://www.whitemesa.net/interop/std", soap.Serialize());
		soap.Parse(h, null);
		object[] res = (object[])soap.Parameters.get_Item(0).Value;
		Console.WriteLine(res[0]);
		Console.WriteLine(res[1]);
	}
}

And finally, heres another example from Tony that handles arrays and compex types

using System;
using System.Collections;
using PocketSOAP;
 
public class XMListings
{
	public static void Main()
	{
		CoEnvelope soap=new CoEnvelope();
		HTTPTransport h=new HTTPTransport();
		h.SOAPAction="";
		soap.MethodName="getAllSOAPServices";
		soap.URI="urn:xmethodsServicesManager";

		h.Send("http://www.xmethods.net/soap/servlet/rpcrouter", soap.Serialize());		
		soap.Parse(h, null);

		Object[] u = (object[])soap.Parameters.get_Item(0).Value;

		foreach (ISOAPNode x in u)
		{
			Console.WriteLine(x.Nodes.get_ItemByName("name","").Value);
			Console.WriteLine(x.Nodes.get_ItemByName("owner","").Value);
			Console.WriteLine(x.Nodes.get_ItemByName("serverImplementation","").Value);
			Console.WriteLine("-------------------------------");
		}
		return;
	}
}