[ale] Help with SOAP::Lite Object syntax

[Chris Woodfield]

Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out how to use SOAP::Lite in an object syntax.  
There's obviously something fundamental I'm missing, and I was  
wondering if anyone clueful could point me to it...

First off, this is how I'm used to building objects locally - nothing  
fancy here:

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/usr/bin/perl -w

BEGIN   {

     package TestClass;

     sub new {
         my $class = shift;
         my $self = {};
         $self->{testval} = "test";
         return (bless ($self, $class));
     }

     sub test    {
         my $self = shift;
         return $self->{testval};
     }
}

my $testobj = new TestClass;

print $testobj->test() . "\n";

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Running this returns the "test" string as it should.

However, the same function adapted for a SOAP call using SOAP::Lite  
gives me errors with similar syntax:

Server side:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use SOAP::Transport::HTTP;

my $daemon = new SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Daemon (LocalPort => 8080);
$daemon->dispatch_to('Test');
$daemon->handle;

BEGIN   {
         package Test;

         sub new {
                 my $class = shift;
                 my $self = {};
                 $self->{testval} = "test";
                 return (bless ($self, $class));
         }

         sub test        {
                 my $self = shift;
                 return $self->{testval};
         }

}

Client side:

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use SOAP::Lite;

my $testobj = new SOAP::Lite
     ->ns('http://test.server.com:8080/Test')
     ->proxy('http://test.server.com:8080');

my $query = $testobj->test();

if ($query->fault)  {
            print "Error: (" . $query->faultcode() . ") " . $query- 
 >faultstring() . "\n";
}

print $query->result . "\n";
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When I run this I get:

Error: (soap:Server) Can't use string ("Test") as a HASH ref while  
"strict refs" in use at soaptestserver2.pl line 23.

Sure enough, if I add the line "print Data::Dumper($self) in the  
test() function, I get:

$VAR1 = 'Test';

So it's obvious that no actual object is getting passed around, just  
the class name.

I'm obviously missing something rather fundamental here. Is it even  
possible to do what I'm trying to do? If so, what am I doing wrong?

TIA,

-Chris