The trouble with SOAP...

[mkk]

Community v4.5.1d

I've tried connecting to the SOAP API using both nuSoap and php5's soap client, the latter in both wsdl and non-wsdl mode. Nothing seems to work.

With nuSoap, my calls don't seem to return anything, so I tried with php5. That produced the error message
" 'location' and 'uri' options are requred in nonWSDL mode ", so I tried connecting in non-wsdl mode (specifying location and uri, style and use). That seemed to get me connected, but my calls produced the error message
"looks like we got no XML document". __getLastResponse() shows that what was returned was the html presentation of the api (with popouts describing each soap call, i.e. this: https://demo.sugarondemand.com/sugarcrm/soap.php).

So I have two questions for this forum:
1) Why are my clients unable to recognize soap.php?wsdl as wsdl?
2) Why does the php5 client not recognize what it receives as xml OR why does sugar soap send its response as html instead of xml?


Furthermore:

I've tried using "http://mkcrm45/soap.php?wsdl" as the location, as opposed to "http://mkcrm45/soap.php" (which is what I used above). In that case, the error message I get is "Wrong Version", and what is returned is a series of empty tablecells. What gives? I've tried to submit the expected soap version (in both the client construct and the login call) as both SOAP_1_1 and SOAP_1_2. Does SugarCRM use a different version than these, or does the problem lurk elsewhere?

Finally:

The whole uri-thing is a bit gibberishy to me. I've seen some people use something like "urn:xmethods-delayed-quotes" for other services. What is correct for SugarCRM, and why?

-Kyrre

[julian]

Hello Kyrre,

First off, PHP5's built-in SOAP client will not work with Sugar. This is a known limitation and something we're working toward fixing.

For nuSOAP... I've never had much trouble using it. You should definitely be connecting to soap.php?wsdl, rather than just soap.php. Can you post an example of the code you're using to connect? Here's a post where I included a simple example using nuSOAP (connecting against Sugar Open Source 4.5.1f):

http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26644

[mkk]

Thanks, Julian.

I decided to implement your code snippet in order to test my server. Apparently, there is some (still unidentified) problems with my localhost server, but I have been able to get things up and running on another server we have.

One of the things I had to do was make sure nuSoap was not using the name "soapclient" anywhere in nusoap.php, as php5 also uses that name. This requirement is not yet very well documented in the wiki, so I'll make sure to edit the soap pages with that rather vital info.

The same goes for the current problem with using the php5 client - I'll cling to nuSoap for now, and document that incompatibility on the wiki as well.

-K