PayPal SOAP and NVP

I would recommend using the NVP (Name-value pair, basically POST with data) API over the SOAP API. NVP should be significantly lighter weight than SOAP. There are a few questions already on SO that complain about SOAP. I just was trying to figure out which to use and came upon those. Hope that helps. Also, … Read more

SoapUI change endpoint address

Look at the request window and expand the select box with the endpoint address. You should see something like this: / [edit current…] [add new endpoint…] [delete current] You click on [edit current…] and you can change the value. Here is an example using some available web service from w3schools.com: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/tempconvert.asmx?WSDL

I am confused about SOAP namespaces

It is related to the SOAP version. SOAP 1.2 uses http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope for the namespace and SOAP 1.1 uses http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/. For reference, see http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/ and look at the envelope section in the different version specs. Also, you can browse to each of those envelope URLs and check the version number to see exactly which version of … Read more

How to do a SOAP wsdl web services call from the command line

It’s a standard, ordinary SOAP web service. SSH has nothing to do here. I just called it with curl (one-liner): $ curl -X POST -H “Content-Type: text/xml” \ -H ‘SOAPAction: “http://api.eyeblaster.com/IAuthenticationService/ClientLogin”‘ \ –data-binary @request.xml \ https://sandbox.mediamind.com/Eyeblaster.MediaMind.API/V2/AuthenticationService.svc Where request.xml file has the following contents: <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=”http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/” xmlns:api=”http://api.eyeblaster.com/”> <soapenv:Header/> <soapenv:Body> <api:ClientLogin> <api:username>user</api:username> <api:password>password</api:password> <api:applicationKey>key</api:applicationKey> </api:ClientLogin> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> … Read more