Trying to consume Coldfusion Web Service using VB.NET

[bsousa]

Hi all,

I'm trying to consume a Service called GetMemberPointsAvailable using VB.NET. Here is the wsdl: http://sp-s3g-uat.iclp.com.au/ws/egapi/v1-0/egapi.cfc?wsdl

This service is written in coldfusion - axis engine.

The steps:
I'm using VB.net on Visual Studio 2005. I created a new windows application project.

Then I added a web reference with URL http://sp-s3g-uat.iclp.com.au/ws/ega...egapi.cfc?wsdl and named the reference as webserviceICLP

Then i added a button on my form and put the following code on the button click event:

Dim client As New webserviceICLP.SportingWS '(or egapiClient in VB2008) 
For Each item As webserviceICLP.mapItem In client.getMemberPointsAvailable("xxxxx", "yyyy", "123456789") 
MsgBox(item.key & vbNewLine & item.value) 
Next

It does nothing because (i think) there are no item created by the response of the webservice.
Also i tried to serialize the returning webservice message object using the following code:

Dim wsICLP As New webserviceICLP.SportingWS 
Dim MyParams() As webserviceICLP.mapItem = {New webserviceICLP.mapItem} 
MyParams = wsICLP.getMemberPointsAvailable("xxxxx", "yyyy", "123456789") 
MsgBox(SerializeToXML(MyParams)) 
Public Shared Function SerializeToXML(Of T)(ByVal obj As T) As String 
Dim returnXML As String = String.Empty 
Dim serializer As New Serialization.XmlSerializer(GetType(T)) 
Using writer As New IO.StringWriter 
serializer.Serialize(New XmlTextWriter(writer), obj) 
returnXML = writer.ToString() 
End Using 
Return returnXML 
End Function

and the result I get is :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><ArrayOfMapItem xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" />

I know that the webservice is running because i tried to test it with the Soap UI tool and it did Ok. Here's the reponse of the WS:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> 
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'> 
<soapenv:Body> 
<getMemberPointsAvailableResponse xmlns='http://v10.egapi.ws'> 
<getMemberPointsAvailableReturn xsi:type='ns1:Map' xmlns:ns1='http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap'> 
<item xmlns=''> 
<key xsi:type='xsd:string'> 
RESPONSEERRORS 
</key> 
<value xsi:type='ns2:ArrayOf_xsd_anyType' xmlns:ns2='http://rpc.xml.coldfusion'/> 
</item> 
<item xmlns=''> 
<key xsi:type='xsd:string'> 
RESPONSESUCCESS 
</key> 
<value xsi:type='xsd:string'> 
true 
</value> 
</item> 
<item xmlns=''> 
<key xsi:type='xsd:string'> 
RESPONSEDATA 
</key> 
<value xsi:type='ns1:Map'> 
<item> 
<key xsi:type='xsd:string'> 
POINTS_AVAILABLE 
</key> 
<value xsi:type='xsd:int'> 
106 
</value> 
</item> 
</value> 
</item> 
</getMemberPointsAvailableReturn> 
</getMemberPointsAvailableResponse> 
</soapenv:Body> 
</soapenv:Envelope>

Any help would be much appreciated!

All the best,
BS

[saisunil1978]

Hi,
Did you get any solution for this problem.actually i am also facing same problem in consuming CF webservice in .NET.I have tried in different ways like creating proxy.Direct Http request and deserialzing.nothing worked for me.The custom type MAP and MapItem are creating problem
If you are able to find a solution please let me.
Thanks In advance
Sai