[MOBY-dev] [moby] Re: problems with retrieveService() in Perl API

Mark Wilkinson markw at illuminae.com
Fri Feb 10 16:33:34 UTC 2006


Does that mean we don't need a phone call today?

M


On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 10:36 -0500, Frank Gibbons wrote:
> OK, so there is a problem with SOAP::Lite 0.67. I downgraded my 
> installation to 0.60 (which by the way, is reported here 
> (http://soaplite.com/download.html) as being the recommended stable 
> release, and now at least I can retrieveService details sufficiently to 
> build a service instance. If upgraded back to 0.67, and the problem 
> re-appears, so I'm downgrading to 0.60, where I will stay.
> 
> However, as I discovered, when a user simply installs SOAP::Lite from CPAN, 
> they may get quite a different version than 0.60 (I got 0.67), in which 
> case, the message gets sent out correctly on the wire, but is perceived as 
> empty by MOBY Central. I don't know much about the details of packaging 
> SOAP requests, and you can read the gory details below for yourselves, but 
> it appears that SOAP::Lite 0.60 and SOAP::Lite 0.67 do not understand each 
> other. The clue was given by the User-Agent and SOAPServer lines, showing 
> that my request was sent using SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.67, and the error message 
> sent in response was generated by SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.60
> 
> So, mystery solved. I'll put a check for SOAP::Lite's version, and a 
> warning for this into the Makefile, until we can figure out what the real 
> solution to this problem is.
> 
> Thanks to Mark & Pieter for their help and suggestions.
> 
> -Frank
> ================================== SOAP::Lite +trace output 
> ============================
> 
> SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: POST 
> http://mips.gsf.de/cgi-bin/proj/planet/moby/MOBY-Central.pl HTTP/1.1
> Accept: text/xml
> Accept: multipart/*
> Accept: application/soap
> User-Agent: SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.67
> Content-Length: 1539
> Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
> SOAPAction: "http://mips.gsf.de/MOBY/Central#retrieveService"
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><soap:Envelope 
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
> xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
> soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
> xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><retrieveService 
> xmlns="http://mips.gsf.de/MOBY/Central"><c-gensym6 xsi:type="xsd:anyURI">
>          <retrieveService>
>          <Service authURI="www.watdb.nl" serviceName="getWAtDBIdByPOAcc" 
> lsid="urn:lsid:biomoby.org:serviceinstance:www.watdb.nl,getWAtDBIdByPOAcc">
>          <serviceType>Retrieval</serviceType>
>          <authoritative>1</authoritative>
>          <Category>moby</Category>
>          <Description><![CDATA[Returns a list of WAtDB mutantline ids with 
> a certain PO accession number]]></Description>
>          <contactEmail>paulien.adamse at wur.nl</contactEmail>
>          <signatureURL/>
>          <URL>http://www.watdb.nl/moby-live/cgi-bin/MOBY/Services/Watdb_mobyservices.py</URL>
>          <Input>
>                  <Simple articleName="">
>                          <objectType 
> lsid="urn:lsid:biomoby.org:objectclass:Object">Object</objectType>
>                          <Namespace 
> lsid="urn:lsid:biomoby.org:namespacetype:PO_acc">PO_acc</Namespace>
>                  </Simple>
>          </Input>
>          <Output>
>                  <Simple articleName="">
>                          <objectType 
> lsid="urn:lsid:biomoby.org:objectclass:Object">Object</objectType>
>                          <Namespace 
> lsid="urn:lsid:biomoby.org:namespacetype:WAtDB_id">WAtDB_id</Namespace>
>                  </Simple>
>          </Output>
>          <secondaryArticles>
>                  </secondaryArticles>
>          </Service>
>          </retrieveService></c-gensym6></retrieveService></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
> SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP::Response=HASH(0x8906a8c)
> SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::send_receive: HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
> Connection: close
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:31:05 GMT
> Server: Apache
> Content-Length: 559
> Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
> Client-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:29:58 GMT
> Client-Peer: 146.107.217.142:80
> Client-Response-Num: 1
> SOAPServer: SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.60
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope 
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
> xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" 
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" 
> SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"><SOAP-ENV:Body><SOAP-ENV:Fault><faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Server</faultcode><faultstring>Empty 
> String at /home/users/plant/lib/perl/MOBY/Central.pm line 2457
> </faultstring></SOAP-ENV:Fault></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> SOAP::Deserializer::deserialize: ()
> SOAP::Parser::decode: ()
> SOAP::SOM::new: ()
> SOAP::SOM::DESTROY: ()
> 
> Connection to MOBY Central at URI 'http://mips.gsf.de/MOBY/Central' died 
> because:
>           SOAP-ENV:Server :  Empty String at 
> /home/users/plant/lib/perl/MOBY/Central.pm line 2457
> 
>   ERROR ERROR ERROR
> 
> 
> 
> At 09:56 AM 2/10/2006, you wrote:
> >At 05:57 AM 2/10/2006, you wrote:
> > >for that one, but that gave me the same results. I currently running
> > >on SOAP::Lite 0.66 with custom patches, but I'm going to try 0.67
> > >today... If you reinstalled Perl, did you also reinstall SOAP::Lite?
> > >If yes which version? In case it's 0.60+ you might have an "anyURI"
> > >problem.
> >
> >Yes, when I re-installed the interpreter (built from source 5.8.6), I
> >reinstalled all of the modules too, from CPAN. I have SOAP::Lite version
> >0.67 installed. What is the "anyURI" problem you mention?
> >
> >Thanks for the response, Pieter.
> >
> >-Frank
> >
> >
> >PhD, Computational Biologist,
> >Harvard Medical School BCMP/SGM-322, 250 Longwood Ave, Boston MA 02115, USA.
> >Tel: 617-432-3555       Fax:
> >617-432-3557       http://llama.med.harvard.edu/~fgibbons
> >
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> PhD, Computational Biologist,
> Harvard Medical School BCMP/SGM-322, 250 Longwood Ave, Boston MA 02115, USA.
> Tel: 617-432-3555       Fax: 
> 617-432-3557       http://llama.med.harvard.edu/~fgibbons 
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