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XML Data Binding

SOAP/XML services use data bindings contractually bound by WSDL and auto- generated by wsdl2h and soapcpp2 (see Service Bindings). Plain data bindings are adopted from XML schemas as part of the WSDL types section or when running wsdl2h on a set of schemas to produce non-SOAP-based XML data bindings.

The following readers and writers are C/C++ data type (de)serializers auto- generated by wsdl2h and soapcpp2. Run soapcpp2 on this file to generate the (de)serialization code, which is stored in soapC.c[pp]. Include "soapH.h" in your code to import these data type and function declarations. Only use the soapcpp2-generated files in your project build. Do not include the wsdl2h- generated .h file in your code.

Data can be read and deserialized from:

- an int file descriptor, using soap->recvfd = fd
- a socket, using soap->socket = (int)...
- a C++ stream (istream, stringstream), using soap->is = (istream*)...
- a C string, using soap->is = (const char*)...
- any input, using the soap->frecv() callback

Data can be serialized and written to:

- an int file descriptor, using soap->sendfd = (int)...
- a socket, using soap->socket = (int)...
- a C++ stream (ostream, stringstream), using soap->os = (ostream*)...
- a C string, using soap->os = (const char**)...
- any output, using the soap->fsend() callback

The following options are available for (de)serialization control:

- soap->encodingStyle = NULL; to remove SOAP 1.1/1.2 encodingStyle
- soap_mode(soap, SOAP_XML_TREE); XML without id-ref (no cycles!)
- soap_mode(soap, SOAP_XML_GRAPH); XML with id-ref (including cycles)
- soap_set_namespaces(soap, struct Namespace *nsmap); to set xmlns bindings

# Top-level root elements of schema "urn:address-book-example"

- <a:address-book> _a__address_book
  // Reader (returns SOAP_OK on success):
  soap_read__a__address_book(struct soap*, _a__address_book*);
  // Writer (returns SOAP_OK on success):
  soap_write__a__address_book(struct soap*, _a__address_book*);
  // REST GET (returns SOAP_OK on success):
  soap_GET__a__address_book(struct soap*, const char *URL, _a__address_book*);
  // REST PUT (returns SOAP_OK on success):
  soap_PUT__a__address_book(struct soap*, const char *URL, _a__address_book*);
  // REST POST (returns SOAP_OK on success):
  soap_POST_send__a__address_book(struct soap*, const char *URL, _a__address_book*);
  soap_POST_recv__a__address_book(struct soap*, _a__address_book*);