STUBMAKER(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the STUBMAKER(1) page — a User Contributed Perl Documentation moment for stubmaker.pl, and its whole job is: Generates client stubs from a WSDL file. slay. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -d <dirname> — Specifies the directory you wish to output the files to. The directory must already exist. so make sure it’s already there, bestie — no cap.
• -v — Turns on "verbose" output during the code stub generation process. NGL, there is not much the program outputs, but if you 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.

💅 STUB FILES 💅

okay so 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. inheritance flex, periodt. 👑

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 help the user control and configure the stub class.

• want_som(boolean) — When set to 1, SOAP::Lite will return SOAP::SOM objects to the user 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.

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

Invoking stubmaker.pl from the command line

> 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: > 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");

👑 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.

mwah 💋 — that’s the whole page, bestie. this iconic STUBMAKER(1) manual came from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-12-14. slay and bye ✨