Re: Cocoa and SOAP without WebServicesCore
Re: Cocoa and SOAP without WebServicesCore
- Subject: Re: Cocoa and SOAP without WebServicesCore
- From: Thomas Engelmeier <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:33:17 +0200
Am 12.08.2008 um 22:26 schrieb patrick machielse:
Now I find myself having to deploy to a platform where not even this
feeble API is available. I've been investigating alternatives, and
found the gSOAP library, which at the moment looks like the best
candidate. However, ideally I would like to use a pure Cocoa
solution, or a project which has existing Cocoa wrappers. Does
anyone have experiences with gSOAP on OS X, or know of a good
alternative?
a.) it works but can be hell if you have to debug, especially if you
have to load 100kb+ generated source files in Xcode.
b.) IANAL, but a Cocoa enabled platform w/o WSCore might be in
conflict with the GPL the royalty-free usage of gSOAP demands IIRC.
c.) Alternatives also depend on how many calls the target API has.
i.e. Setting up and compiling gSOAP takes some time.
Packet-sniffing the communication of <http://www.ditchnet.org/soapclient/
> and creating the comm with a combination of printf' to a XML
template string, NSURLRequest and parsing results with libXML takes
another amount of time. Sometimes the later is more effective (e.g.
for some primitive "gimme weather at ZIP code 12345" SOAP API).
SOAP was meant to be simple (the S in SOAP), and just became hard to
deal with due to some overengineered parameter / packet format. With
packet-to-send templates it should be straightforward to handle.
Regards,
Tom_E
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