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Sending arguments via Soap in Node.js using node-soap

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I am just getting started with NodeJS and I digging into talking to a SOAP service using milewise's node-soap. I am using a basic email address validation SOAP API as my test case.

I don't seem to understand the correct way to format my arguments lists.

My SOAP client code:

    var url = http://www.restfulwebservices.net/wcf/EmailValidationService.svc?wsdl;

soap.createClient(url, function(err, client){

    console.log(client.describe().EmailValidationService.BasicHttpBinding_IEmailValidationService.Validate);

    client.Validate({result:[email protected]}, function(err, result){

            console.log(result);

    });

});

The client.describe() command tells me how the API would like its input formatted, and how it will return its output. This is what is says:

{ input: { 'request[]': 'xs:string' }, output: { 'ValidateResult[]': 'xs:boolean' } }

However when I send the arguments as an object: {request:[email protected]}

I feel like my problems lies in how I am defining the arguments object...what do the brackets in request[] mean?

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answered 11 Years ago karivictoriab · Accepted Answer

It should work, if you add namespace on request argument.
This is a sample code.

var soap = require('soap');



var url = http://www.restfulwebservices.net/wcf/EmailValidationService.svc?wsdl;



var args = {tns:request:[email protected]};



soap.createClient(url, function(err, client){

    client.EmailValidationService.BasicHttpBinding_IEmailValidationService.Validate(args, function(err, result){

            if (err) throw err;

            console.log(result);

    });

});

However, it returns Access is denied.

I use soapUI to test this web service, it returns the same result.

I try another web service, and it works.

var soap = require('soap');



var url = http://www.restfulwebservices.net/wcf/StockQuoteService.svc?wsdl;



var args = {tns:request:GOOG};



soap.createClient(url, function(err, client){



    client.StockQuoteService.BasicHttpBinding_IStockQuoteService.GetStockQuote(args, function(err, result){

            if (err) throw err;

            console.log(result);

    });

});