Samples Gallery

In addition to the samples contained in the 4s4c and pocketSOAP downloads, I'll be adding more samples here. Drop me an email if you have a sample you want to add here, or there's a specific example you want to see.

Controlling Array Type Serialization in scripting language

Many scripting environments only support arrays of variants, by default PocketSOAP will serialize these as an array of xsd:anyType as each item in the array may be of a different type. However some servers will complain when receiving such an array. You can however override the default mappings in PocketSOAP and have it say the array is of a different type, this sample shows serializing an array of variants from VBScript as an array of xsd:string in the resulting SOAP request.

Weblogs.com ping in c++

This VC++ project shows how to use PocketXML-RPC from C++ to ping the Weblogs.com ping server

Custom Serializers in VC++

This sample contains a customer serializer written in vC++ along with a sample client application that uses the custom serializer.

DIME & SwA in eVC

This eVC project show's how to use the DIME and SwA attachments support in PocketSOAP.

Handling Arrays of Complex Types

This VB6 sample shows how to manually handle sending and receiving arrays of complex types.

Working with VB Collections and PocketSOAP

This VB6 sample shows how to write a class that performs serialization and deserialization for VB6 collections.

MIME Attachments in C#

This is a c# version of the echo attachments sample, and shows how to use the attachments manager in C#

PocketSOAP for PocketPC demo using eVB

This is an updated version of Christian Forsberg's sample that he built for this article. In addition to being updated for pocketSOAP 1.1, Rupak Ganguly kindly contributed some code that allows you to configure the proxy and authentication options.
In addition to the source download [click the title], there's a download for a pre-packaged setup [1109k] for ARM, MIPS & SH3 devices.

Grand Central Network

There's a getting started guide for using PocketSOAP with the Grand Central Communications Network available on their Developer Central website.

RssValidator Client

This is a client proxy object and application for the SOAP Interface to the Rss Validator service. This also shows how to take a DOM document and get it serialized into the request SOAP message. The bulk of the proxy code was generated using the WSDL wizard, and hand tweaked to provide the DOM support. Note that this requires PocketSOAP v1.4.1 and MSXML4.0 to run.

DIME & SwA in VB

This VB project show's how to use the DIME and SwA attachments support in PocketSOAP 1.3.5.

DIME & SwA in eVB

This eVB project show's how to use the DIME and SwA attachments support in PocketSOAP 1.3.5 from eVB.

Calling Weblogs.com [XML-RPC]

Here's a little VBS script that uses pocketXML-RPC to notify weblogs.com that your weblog has changed. See the weblogs.com XML-RPC interface docs

PocketBlogger

This is a simple BloggerAPI client for PocketPC's, that can be use to edit and create posts for weblogging tools that support the BloggerAPI such as Blogger and Radio.

Using the XSpaces service

This shows how to use the XMethods XSpaces service using PocketSOAP, using a proxy object generated by the beta WSDL tools.

Calling the Google API

Here's a VBScript sample of calling the Google Search API. Note that you'll need to create an account at Google to get an authentication key to use.

WS-Routing demo

This demo generates & parses WS-Routing headers. It includes an object model based on the WS-Routing spec and a set of PocketSOAP serializers & deserializers for the object model.

Custom Serializer example

This is a C++ based sample, that shows how to write a custom serializer / deserializer, and how to register it with the PocketSOAP serializerFactory, so that it gets called at the appropriate times. The sample contains a simple implementation for a dictionary collection [name/value pairs], and the custom serializer that serializes this collection object to/from SOAP. The serialized representation of the dictionary is compatible with the Apache SOAP serialization for hashMaps, and the sample code sends and receives a dictionary to an Apache SOAP 2.2 server.

PocketSOAP / .NET Interop

A sample of calling .NET WebServices and .NET Remoting SOAP services with PocketSOAP.

Using PocketSOAP from .NET

Tony Hong sent me this one, and shows how to use pocketSOAP from C# (and therefore any other .NET language)

Calling the Manila SOAP API

Here's a simple example of using pocketSOAP from VB, to modify the home page of a Manila based site. See Jake's Getting started with Manila and SOAP post to the xml-rpc list. This versions works fine for OPML and non OPML based Manila Sites (you typically are using OPML if you use Radio to edit your Manila site). Here's a picture of it in action. I've started using this to update my soap weblog.

Edgar search

This example calls the soapclient.com Edgar search service.

Interop demos

This example demonostrates calls a variety of services deployed with different server toolkits including 4s4c, GLUE, ROPE, Apache SOAP and SOAP::Lite

Handling Type mappings

These examples demonostrates how to use the serializerFactory to configure type mappings for untyped elements, for elements with the same name but different types, and demonstrates the use of the valueas function to extract de-serialized values as a particular type.

Arrays from Scripting

This shows using arrays, and handling strongly typed arrays from scripting environments (such as VBScript or eVB), where arrays have to be arrays of variants.

PocketPC Stock Quote

This is the eVC source code for the Stock Quote demo that installs with PocketSOAP on PocketPC's. This is calling the XMethods stock quote service.

VB6 Stock Quote

This is a VB6 project that calls the XMethods stock quote service. This including showing how to configure proxy server support, and the use of the SOAP Proxy object.

VBScript Stock Quote

This is a VBScript sample for the XMethods stock quote service.

Using the PropertyBag Serializer

This VB6 sample shows how the PropertyBag serializer can be used to serialize and de-serialize VB6 classes to complex types, without having to write a custom serializer.

Current Temperature

This is a simple C++ based console application that calls the XMethods temperature service.

Calling Weblogs.com [SOAP]

Here's a little VBS script that uses pocketSOAP to notify weblogs.com that your weblog has changed. See the weblogs.com SOAP interface docs

Kafka & XslTransport

Chris Dix has released Kafka an XSLT based SOAP Server (this is so cool), it includes a pocketSOAP transport XslTransport that allows you to run local XSLT's from pocketSOAP for testing.