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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 12/12/2024 09:02, Goltz, Immo wrote:
> Hi Amos,
>
> we had similar problems (while migrating to Sympa) and solved it differently.
>
>  From the Java developers:
>   - The current Sympa SOAP Server implementation is not SOAP 1.1 compliant, 
> as it uses document/rpc encoding.
>   - Authentification is very special in the current Sympa implementation (you 
> need to login, first to get a cookie, which is anything else than WSE 
> Security and needs special client implementations to support it. E.g. Axis2, 
> Spring-WS or Apache CXF need heavy implimentation specific extensions to 
> support this authentification).
>   - From a functional point of view, the current implementation is very basic 
> and not suited to manage Sympa lists by Soap completely.
>
> Due to these issues we decided to implement our own  Sympa SOAP 
> implementation which is
>   - Soap 1.1 document/literal compliant.
>   - Supports WSE compliant authentification scheme with UsernameToken WSSE 
> headers.
>   - Fits our functional needs to CRUD mailing lists with their admins and 
> members.
>   - Returns faults in case of errors.
>
> A long time ago I intended to announce it on this list and make it public on 
> Github. Maybe I should do it now 🙂
> But beware, new Sympa versions could break this add-on.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> Immo

Hello Immo,

it would be incredibly helpful for the Sympa Community to have a clean SOAP 
solution.

Please release it on GitHub, preferably in the Sympa Community 
(https://github.com/sympa-community)

We can check / adjust how it works with newer Sympa versions.

Regards
   Racke

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> *Von:* address@concealed <address@concealed> im Auftrag von Amos 
> <address@concealed>
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2024 23:36
> *An:* sympa-users <address@concealed>
> *Betreff:* [EXTERN] [en@sympa] soap java examples? (6.2.72)
> Hi.
>
> Does anyone have any java soap examples they’d be willing to share? One of 
> our developers is running into problems, especially since the docs and the 
> WSDL file seem to be at odds.
>
> For example, the description for authenticateAndRun is: The client provides a 
> user email and password and requests a service in a single SOAP access using 
> the authenticateAndRun SOAP service. However, in the WSDL file there’s no 
> field for password for that call.
>
> This is with 6.2.72.
>
> Amos
>
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