How to make SoapClient request with complex parameters? - php

Question

This is the first time I work with SoapClient on PHP. My task is to create a script to automatically send a Soap request to the server. The correct request in SOAP UI is:
Soap URL: http://example.com:8181/inventory/soap/inventory-api?wsdl
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:inv="http://example.com:8181/inventory-api/">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<inv:searchStockItemRequest>
<inv:filter>
<inv:ItemID>100</inv:ItemID>
<inv:ItemID>101</inv:ItemID>
<inv:ItemID>102</inv:ItemID>
</inv:filter>
</inv:searchStockItemRequest>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
It means: Search the StockItem with ID is 100 or 101 or 102.
This is my current code.
$xml = '<inv:filter>
<inv:ItemID>100</inv:ItemID>
<inv:ItemID>101</inv:ItemID>
<inv:ItemID>102</inv:ItemID>
</inv:filter>';
$client = new SoapClient(null, array(
'location' => 'http://example.com:8181/inventory/soap/inventory-api?wsdl',
'uri' => MCA_INVENTORY_WSDL)
);
$result = $client->searchItem(htmlspecialchars($xml));
And the result is fault with a message:
"Missing required element {http://example.com:8181/inventory-api/}filter"
I think that the server cannot detect the above filter element. Anyone please help!!!

Answer 1

Soap URL: http://example.com:8181/inventory/soap/inventory-api?wsdl
This is your wsdl address, not your service end point url.
Open above url in web browser. Find this tag <soap:address location> in your wsdl. It should be within <service> tag at end of wsdl. Now replace wsdl url with this end point url.
It should work.
$client = new SoapClient(null, array(
'location' => 'http://example.com:8181/inventory/soap/inventory-api?wsdl',
'uri' => MCA_INVENTORY_WSDL)

Answer 2

I think you have to use a correct data format instead of a XML string. Based on your correct request using SOAP UI, the code using SoapClient should be like the below:
$client = new SoapClient('http://example.com:8181/inventory/soap/inventory-api?wsdl');
$result = $client->searchStockItemRequest(array(
'filter' => array(
'ItemID' => array(100, 101, 102)
)
));
I am not sure the ItemID array is a correct format. You can print the request to check:
echo $client->__getLastRequest();
Don't forget to enable the tracing option:
$client = new SoapClient('...', array('trace' => true));