Comments on: Example Code : WebServices Core + CFNetwork for SOAP + HTTP auth on OS X

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:47:16 +0000

P.S. I fibbed. The first batch of compile errors were because I needed to add CoreServices.framework, and then I realized I had to change the project from 10.4 to 10.5.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:44:40 +0000

Todd, all I can say is…you rock!

I don’t know if this example was created while you were at Apple; I see it was refined and published there a month later, at: http://developer.apple.com/internet/webservices/webservicescoreandcfnetwork.html.

I lucked upon the Apple version first, but it’s pretty obvious that it would not be there except for your efforts.

The Apple sample code web site has nothing, and my local /Developer dir has one example (XMethodInspector) but I cannot get it to build. (It seems like it needs to run WSMakeStubs, but it doesn’t, and I haven’t tried adding it myself.)

The project on Apple’s site tries to build under 10.4 and I’m on 10.5, so first I got a bunch of errors because of that, and eventually I figured out that I needed to manually add CoreServices.framework to the project.

Once I got a clean build, it was relatively smooth sailing, but that first build was a bear. I’m not complaining, though; again, without your efforts here, I’d still be lost.

By: Sean Todd

Sean Todd — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:41:00 +0000

Thanks for this Todd!

It is really helpful. You are right, there isn’t much out there in documentation of Web Services. It is odd how much Apple has ignored this.

There is also this PDF here: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Networking/Conceptual/UsingWebservices/Web_Services.pdf
It is a PDF version of most of what you linked to in the first link.

By: Dion

Dion — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:59:10 +0000

Include CoreServices.framework in your project which contains the WebServicesCore.framework and you should be good to go.

By: Anyone get this working?

Anyone get this working? — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:30:57 +0000

I have yet to get this working. I am having the same problem John Chandler is having. I can not get it to compile… I am running xcode 3.0 and still get a ton of compile errors from the code you (and apple) supply during linking. (22 errors).

“_kWSDebugIncomingHeaders”, referenced from:_kWSDebugIncomingHeaders$non_lazy_ptr in SOAP_AuthExample.o

By: Cocoa and SOAP tutorial

Cocoa and SOAP tutorial — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:24:50 +0000

[…] looking at the WebServices Core again, and this time I found that Todd Ditchendorf has written a nice tutorial about it. I’m working my way through it and it looks […]

By: Nik

Nik — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:08:55 +0000

Thanks a million, Todd. Just a quick question (yupp, the question is quick, I expect the answer is kind of long-ish): how do you deal with complex types? I’ve used your SOAPclient to debug my services so I know you’ve got the answer. Looking forward to hearing about it.

Cheers

Nik

By: John Chandler

John Chandler — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:13:44 +0000

The project fails to build, complaining about a missing “Release” build directory. A directory of that name exists, but is not a direct descendant of “build”. That is, Xcode seems to want “SOAP_AuthExample/build/Release”, but only “SOAP_AuthExample/SOAP_AuthExample.build/Release” exists. (Of course, this may not actually be the problem.)

Is this a versioning problem with Xcode? I’m using 2.5. I didn’t see any indication that 3.0 was required though.