STUBMAKER(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, this is STUBMAKER(1) from User Contributed Perl Documentation — the manual moment for stubmaker.pl, and it Generates client stubs from a WSDL file. That’s the whole name-and-purpose vibe, no cap. 💖

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

okay so, here’s the flag menu, and yes every single one is invited to the group chat:

• -d <dirname> — tells stubmaker.pl the directory you want the files written to. The directory must already exist — yep, it has to already be there before you run this. 🫶
• -v — turns on “verbose” output during the code stub generation process. ngl, there’s not much the program outputs, but if you absolutely must see something output to the console, then this fits the bill. 🗣️
• --help — outputs a short help message. 🆘
• --version — outputs the current version of stubmaker.pl. 🏷️

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🦋 STUB FILES 🦋

real talk: the class or package created by stubmaker.pl is actually a sub-class of the core SOAP::Lite object. As a result, all methods one can call upon SOAP::Lite one can also call upon generated stubs. slay ✨

For example, suppose you wanted to obtain readable output from the generated stub — then simply call readable(1) on the stub’s instance. See the example below. 👑

🌸 STUB SUBROUTINES 🌸

The following subroutines are unique to generated stub classes, and they help the user control and configure the stub class. 🎀

• want_som(boolean) — when set to 1, SOAP::Lite will return SOAP::SOM objects to you upon invoking a method on a remote service. This is very helpful when you need to check to see if the return value is a SOAP::Fault or not. When set to 0, SOAP::Lite will return the return value of the method. 🔥

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💖 EXAMPLES 💖

✨ Invoking stubmaker.pl from the command line ✨

group-chat demo time — here’s the exact command-line moment:

> perl stubmaker.pl http://www.xmethods.net/sd/StockQuoteService.wsdl
Or: > perl "-MStockQuoteService qw(:all)" -le "print getQuote('MSFT')"

🎧 Working with stub classes 🎧

Command line: here’s the stubmaker.pl call that targets http://ws1.api.re2.yahoo.com/ws/soap-demo/full.wsdl:

perl stubmaker.pl http://ws1.api.re2.yahoo.com/ws/soap-demo/full.wsdl

File: echo.pl

use full;
use SOAP::Lite +trace => qw( debug );
my $f = new full;
$f->use_prefix(0);
$f->readable(1);
$f->want_som(1);
$som = $f->echoViaBase64("foo");

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Paul Kulchenko. All rights reserved. 👑

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 🫶

source/version + date check: perl v5.42.0, dated 2024-03-04, page STUBMAKER(1) — mwah 💋