MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-DEVELOPING COLDFUSION MX Develop Manual page 715

where:
•
specifies the URL to the WSDL file for the web service.
webservice
•
specifies the operation of the web service to invoke.
method
•
specifies an input parameter passed to the operation.
inputParamN
•
specifies the name of the variable that contains any results returned from the
returnVariable
web service.
To access a web service using cfinvoke:
Create a ColdFusion page with the following content:
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<cfinvoke
webservice = "http://www.xmethods.net/sd/2001/BabelFishService.wsdl"
method = "BabelFish"
translationmode = "en_es"
sourcedata = "Hello world, friend"
returnVariable = "foo">
<cfoutput>#foo#</cfoutput>
Save the page as wscfc.cfm in your web root directory.
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View the page in your browser.
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The following string appears in your browser:
Hola mundo, amigo
You can pass parameters to web services using two other mechanisms: the
and the
argumentCollection
To pass parameters using the
the following code shows:
<cfinvoke
webservice ="http://www.xmethods.net/sd/2001/BabelFishService.wsdl"
method ="BabelFish"
returnVariable = "varName" >
<cfinvokeargument name="translationmode" value="en_es">
<cfinvokeargument name="sourcedata" value="Hello world, friend">
</cfinvoke>
<cfoutput>#varName#</cfoutput>
The
cfinvokeargument
value of a parameter passed to the web service.
You can also use an attribute collection to pass parameters. An attribute collections is a structure
where each structure key corresponds to a parameter name and each structure value is the
parameter value passed for the corresponding key. The following example shows an invocation of
a web service using an attribute collection:
<cfscript>
stArgs = structNew();
stArgs.translationmode = "en_es";
stArgs.sourceData= "Hello world, friend";
</cfscript>
attribute of the
cfinvokeargument
tag is a nested tag of the
tag.
cfinvoke
tag, you write your call to the web service, as
tag that lets you specify the name and
cfinvoke
Consuming web services
tag
cfinvokeargument
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