Update: Problem resolved .
I need to call a web service method (dduLogin) that returns 3 parameters. I generated the code by adding a web link through visual studio. This is an important part of wsdl:
<message name="dduLoginRequest"> <part name="Ticket" type="xsd:string"/> <part name="ServiceId" type="xsd:string"/> <part name="Market" type="xsd:string"/> <part name="Application" type="xsd:string"/> <part name="Brand" type="xsd:string"/> <part name="Sincom" type="xsd:string"/> <part name="CertificationSystem" type="xsd:string"/> </message> <message name="dduLoginResponse"> <part name="Ticket" type="xsd:string"/> <part name="LoginId" type="xsd:string"/> <part name="Return" type="xsd:string"/> </message> <portType name="dduPortType"> <operation name="dduLogin"> <input message="tns:dduLoginRequest"/> <output message="tns:dduLoginResponse"/> </operation> </portType> <binding name="dduBinding" type="tns:dduPortType"> <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/> <operation name="dduLogin"> <soap:operation soapAction="urn:ddu#dduLogin" style="rpc"/> <input> <soap:body use="encoded" namespace="urn:ddu" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/> </input> <output> <soap:body use="encoded" namespace="urn:ddu" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/> </output> </operation> </binding>
You can call this method, and this returns xml:
<SOAP-ENV:Body><ns1:dduLoginResponse xmlns:ns1="urn:ddu"> <Ticket xsi:type="xsd:string">MS%40%2AT6%2F%26179G%23%24%25%25%2A%40%40LDNT%27BP%3F9C%2CRY9-Z8C0C%3D0JXD%24_%2A%5EFKF%26DV%3BIP_8%3DM.E3VBDU7%3CAB%5C9_%22%3A%29E9%2CYO6%5C8I%5D6J%5EZ%60%2C8%3A%26%60%25U%3B.6A4G%2BO%5EQA%5DINI4X2%247%29M%2C%3B%3DZ%5CQ%3C%3A%27%3AB%5CSUB%3F9GAPC%3DRV%3CA%5E%2CE7%40L3%3F%3FY%215T%27%40B%3FKUJIH%3D%2B150Q%3CD%3A%3B%21D%22%3B%3ED%60%60%0A</Ticket> <LoginId xsi:type="xsd:string">22459</LoginId> <Return xsi:type="xsd:string">0</Return></ns1:dduLoginResponse> </SOAP-ENV:Body>
But after the call, not all returned values are filled in as they should be. This is the code generated by Visual Studio for this method:
[System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapRpcMethodAttribute("urn:ddu#dduLogin", RequestNamespace="urn:ddu", ResponseNamespace="urn:ddu")] [return: System.Xml.Serialization.SoapElementAttribute("LoginId")] public string dduLogin(ref string Ticket, string ServiceId, string Market, string Application, string Brand, string Sincom, string CertificationSystem, out string Return) { object[] results = this.Invoke("dduLogin", new object[] { Ticket, ServiceId, Market, Application, Brand, Sincom, CertificationSystem}); Ticket = ((string)(results[1])); Return = ((string)(results[2])); return ((string)(results[0])); }
This seems to be in the wrong order (the ticket must be results[0] ), and LoginId must be results[1] and results[1] also empty (null).
What is the problem? Am I missing something? Is this a bad wsdl? Is this a Visual Studio web service proxy generator? Has anyone had this before? Any suggestions on how to solve this?
Btw, an employee can successfully call this web service using a different set of web service tools (not completely .NET related).
Edit : this displays the wsdl.exe file for the wsdl in question:
C:\temp>wsdl https://eu.link.fiatauto.com/tsi/DDUWsAut.php?wsdl Microsoft (R) Web Services Description Language Utility [Microsoft (R) .NET Framework, Version 2.0.50727.3038] Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Warning: This web reference does not conform to WS-I Basic Profile v1.1. R2706: A wsdl:binding in a DESCRIPTION MUST use the value of "literal" for the u se attribute in all soapbind:body, soapbind:fault, soapbind:header and soapbind: headerfault elements. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduLogin' on portType 'dduBinding ' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduLogin' on portType 'dduBindin g' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduLogout' on portType 'dduBindin g' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduLogout' on portType 'dduBindi ng' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduDir' on portType 'dduBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduDir' on portType 'dduBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduGetGroupList' on portType 'ddu Binding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduGetGroupList' on portType 'dd uBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduGetGroupFileList' on portType 'dduBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduGetGroupFileList' on portType 'dduBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduCreate' on portType 'dduBindin g' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduCreate' on portType 'dduBindi ng' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduOpen' on portType 'dduBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduOpen' on portType 'dduBinding ' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduClose' on portType 'dduBinding ' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduClose' on portType 'dduBindin g' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduAbort' on portType 'dduBinding ' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduAbort' on portType 'dduBindin g' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduRead' on portType 'dduBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduRead' on portType 'dduBinding ' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduWrite' on portType 'dduBinding ' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduWrite' on portType 'dduBindin g' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduGet' on portType 'dduBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduGet' on portType 'dduBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduPost' on portType 'dduBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduPost' on portType 'dduBinding ' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduGetAtt' on portType 'dduBindin g' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduGetAtt' on portType 'dduBindi ng' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduPostAtt' on portType 'dduBindi ng' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduPostAtt' on portType 'dduBind ing' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduTransaction' on portType 'dduB inding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduTransaction' on portType 'ddu Binding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduCommit' on portType 'dduBindin g' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduCommit' on portType 'dduBindi ng' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduRollback' on portType 'dduBind ing' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduRollback' on portType 'dduBin ding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduLoginDescr' on portType 'dduBi nding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduLoginDescr' on portType 'dduB inding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduIsRemoteDebug' on portType 'dd uBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduIsRemoteDebug' on portType 'd duBinding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Input element soapbind:body of operation 'dduLogClient' on portType 'dduBin ding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. - Output element soapbind:body of operation 'dduLogClient' on portType 'dduBi nding' from namespace 'urn:ddu'. For more details on the WS-I Basic Profile v1.1, see the specification at http://www.ws-i.org/Profiles/BasicProfile-1.1.html. Writing file 'C:\temp\ddu.cs'.
Update
I followed @ Benjamin's recommendation and used WCF to create a client. I had some problems: wsdl contained some spaces where there should be no spaces, and the service encoding was apparently ISO-8859-1, so I created my own CustomTextMessageEncoder .
Since I expect more problems with this service, I am still very interested in working with links to old-style web services, so if anyone has another hint why the returned XML is not being processed correctly, here is the URL wsdl address:
https://eu.link.fiatauto.com/tsi/DDUWsAut.php?wsdl
Please note that removing spaces (which was the problem that I encountered when trying to link to the service) did not solve this problem (the output from the wsdl.exe file remains unchanged).