Re: LuaSoap, the NOAAA Weather Service, and weatherParameters

["Isaac Guenard" <izyk@...>]

Thanks Antonio

I am looking that over now :-)

On Feb 8, 2008 3:40 AM, Antonio Tadeu Azevedo Gomes <atagomes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Isaac,
>
> I've never used LuaSoap, but in our lab we came across some issues
> regarding the SOAP binding models (RPC/encoded, Document/Literal...)
> when putting .NET and Java implementations to work together---the
> biggest of them being just the use of arrays. Perhaps you should try
> to find whether there is a mismatch between the binding models adopted
> in LuaSoap and the NOAAA weather service.
> For further info about such binding models, I recommend the following link:
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-whichwsdl/
>
> Regards,
> --
> Antonio Tadeu.Azevedo Gomes, DSc.
> http://www.lncc.br/~atagomes
> http://martin.lncc.br
>
>
>
> On 07/02/2008, Isaac Guenard <izyk@izyk.net> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Hoping someone here can help me with a question about using LuaSoap -
> > I also emailed info@keplerproject.org but I understand the LuaSoap
> > part of that project may not be maintained any longer.
> >
> > I am trying to use LuaSoap with the NOAAA weather service (described
> > at http://www.weather.gov/xml/), and I am running into some trouble
> > with declaring an array of booleans.
> >
> > I grabbed LuaSoap from the CVS at LuaForge, and created a test
> > application which is successfully connecting and retrieving data.
> > Unfortunately, one required parameter is an array. The tests that come
> > with LuaSoap show a simple array of numbers, and I tried to use that
> > as a model, but I don't seem to be able to generate a valid result.
> >
> > The specific tag I am referring to is called WeatherParameters, and it
> > is described in the WDSL at
> > http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/DWMLgen/wsdl/ndfdXML.wsdl
> >
> >
> > params = {
> >         tag = "weatherParameters",
> >         attr = {
> >                 ["xmlns:SOAP-ENC"] = "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";,
> >                 ["SOAP-ENC:arrayType"] = "xsd:boolean[5]",
> >         },
> >         {tag = "maxt", true },
> >         {tag = "mint", false },
> >         {tag = "temp", false },
> >         {tag = "dew", false },
> >         {tag = "appt", false },
> > }
> >
> > (I have a much longer version which uses all 51 of the valid
> > parameters, this has been truncated for brevity)
> >
> > While the SOAP call does not fail, the results returned are not
> > filtered they way I have observed in the example clients provided by
> > the NOAAA. I am almost a total XML beginner, so this is all feeling a
> > bit alien to me at the moment.
> >
> > Any help at all would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Isaac
> >
>
>
> --
> Antonio Tadeu Azevedo Gomes, DSc.
> http://www.lncc.br/~atagomes/
>