Webservice and _setProperty does not exist

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#1

Hi,

On a old Coldfusion 8 app, we were able to do something like that:

<cfset ws = createObject("webservice", "https://example.com/mywebservice.wsdl")>
<cfset ws._setProperty('javax.xml.rpc.service.endpoint.address',"http://localhost:1234")>

Lucee generate the error :

The method/operation [_setProperty] does not exist, only the following methods/operations are available: [example1, example2, example3, etc…].

The _setProperty was probably an undocumented way to change a property of a webservice and I believe It’s not working on recent versions of ACF too.

Is there any equivalent on Lucee to change the endpoint?

Thank you

#2

what do you see when you dump out the ws object?

#3

All the methods of the webservice. See attachment.

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#4

Here the dump from Coldfusion 8

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#5

Technically speaking, can we use Lucee to call a webservice whose definition file (wsdl) is located at one url and the endpoint at another?

#6

If my understanding is correct, Lucee calls a wsdl file which defines the endpoint with :

<wsdl:service name="PaymentTransactionV2200">
		<wsdl:port name="PaymentTransactionPort" binding="tns:PaymentTransactionSoapBinding">
			<soap:address location="https://www.ctpaiement.com/ws2014/services/PaymentTransactionV2200"/>
		</wsdl:port>
</wsdl:service>

Lucee retrieves this data and it will be the endpoint of the webservice when I call a method.

My question is therefore: Can we with Lucee modify this endpoint programmatically without directly modifying the wsdl file?

#7

does GetComponentMetaData(ws) or GetMetaData(ws) show anything else up?

#9

GetMetaData return this

getmetadata-dump
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GetComponentMetaData return can’t cast Webservice to a string

#10

you could play around in the java, it’s an extension

once you made your changes, just run ant in the root and it will produce a new .lex you can manually upload

#11

Is it a different extension than what is installed by default in Lucee with the name “Axis 1 Webservices”?

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I’m not sure what changes I am suppose to do with this extension. I am suppose to create a new extension from this one to add a method to be able to change the endpoint of a webservice?

#12

yep that repo is the source for that extension

that’s the idea, if you want to try it

#13

Thanks for the suggestion, but I’m not very familiar with developing in Java. Since I have only one webservice that works this way, I will test soon if I can modify the wsdl file to get what I want.

#14

Finally I modify the wsdl on the fly to change to endpoint for what I want before passing it to createObject(“webservice”).

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