C# struct and NuSOAP(php)

OptiPlex

Hello Im trying to build a client in c# that talks with some remote (php)server with SOAP using the NuSOAP library. Here im using a struct/object that will containt the user info of some user:

public struct UserProfile {
public string username;
public string password;
public string email;
public string site;
public string signature;
public int age;
public int points;

And this is the PHP Code:

server->wsdl->addComplexType(
'UserProfile',
'complexType',
'struct',
'all',
'',
array(
'username' => array('name' => 'username', 'type' => 'xsd:string'),
'password' => array('name' => 'password', 'type' => 'xsd:string'),
'email' => array('name' => 'email', 'type' => 'xsd:string'),
'site' => array('name' => 'site', 'type' => 'xsd:string'),
'signature' => array('name' => 'signature', 'type' => 'xsd:string'),
'age' => array('name' => 'age', 'type' => 'xsd:int'),
'points' => array('name' => 'username', 'type' => 'xsd:int'),
)
);

$server->wsdl->addComplexType(
'UserProfileArray',
'complexType',
'array',
'',
'SOAP-ENC:Array',
array(),
array(array('ref' => 'SOAP-ENC:arrayType', 'wsdl:arrayType' => 'tns:UserProfile[]')),
'tns:UserProfile'
);

$server->register("getUserProfile",
array(),
array('return' => 'tns:UserProfileArray'),
$namespace,
false,
'rpc',
false,
'Get the user profile object'
);

function getUserProfile(){
$profile['username'] = "user";
$profile['password'] = "pass";
$profile['email'] = "usern@ame";
$profile['site'] = "u.com";
$profile['signature'] = "usucsdckme";
$profile['age'] = 111;
$profile['points'] = time() / 2444;

return $profile;

}

Now I already have a working login function, and I want to get the info about the logged in user but I dont know howto obtain these. This is what im using to get the userinfo:

        string user = txtUser.Text;
        string pass = txtPass.Text;
        SimpleService.SimpleService service = new SimpleService.SimpleService();
        if(service.login(user, pass)){
             //logged in

        }

        SoapApp.SimpleService.UserProfile\[\] user = service.getUserProfile(); // THIS LINE GIVES ME AN EXCEPTION

        MessageBox.Show(user\[0\].username + "--" + user\[0\].p

dataminers

Ok, php and .net are different platform. So data structers are different. Normally different platform can not talk each other. If we talk about windows side; windows solve this problem with WCF (Window Communication Foundation). On java side; Sun's Project Tango http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/glassfish/ProjectTango/[^] But your server side is PHP. How to solve I don't know. May you can parse XML format. I know it is not good solution but you can solve using XML parsing. Best Regards...

OptiPlex

Thank you sir Parsing XML/String, I can live with that. Thanks again, - opx

dataminers

Your welcome.

Almighty Bob

change

$server->register("getUserProfile",
array(),
array('return' => 'tns:UserProfileArray'),
$namespace,
false,
'rpc',
false,
'Get the user profile object'
);

to

$server->register("getUserProfile",
array(),
array('return' => 'tns:UserProfile'),
$namespace,
false,
'rpc',
false,
'Get the user profile object'
);

to return one profile. There's no point in defining an array of user profiles if all you want to return is one.

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Almighty Bob

dataminers wrote:

Ok, php and .net are different platform. So data structers are different. Normally different platform can not talk each other.

that's totally incorrect. the whole point of service oriented architectures is so that disparate systems can work together. C# can talk to java, java can talk to php, php can talk to C# and vice versa. it doesn't matter what the source or destination languages are, as long as they can serialize/encode and deserialize/decode an http request / response to and from SOAP.

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