Re: SOAP APIs removed in 2.5.x?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:14:12 GMT

Hi,

Yes, you will need to generate your own code from the WSDL's in order to use the Webservices API. Luckily there are many tools out there which do this quickly and very easily. Much of your code won't change (object manipulation), just the code used for connecting/authenticating as well as getting services.

This client was removed for various reasons. It was becoming hard to maintain (needed to be updated with every release for multiple code types) and we felt it was something that would be best left up to the customer to generate in order to remain as flexible as possible. Thanks.

-Todd

SOAP APIs removed in 2.5.x?

communities@jivesoftware.com — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:23:03 GMT

I've been working with Clearspace 2.0.x on an integration project for months now, sort of unfortunate timing with the 2.5 release coming shortly after we started coding on 2.0. We have a good deal of code in another system which uses the SOAP client API to manipulate objects in Clearspace.

We finally got around to trying out 2.5 and it is a big improvement in performance, functionality and overall finish. We were evaluating an upgrade to 2.5.x for the project and most of it looked pretty straightforward, until I checked the SOAP docs for 2.5 and saw this:

Note: In previous versions, Clearspace included a client API for access to SOAP-style web services. That API has been removed. To build a client, one approach is to use WSDL files provided by Clearspace.

So now we have to rewrite the object model code to use lower-level web service APIs? Why was this API suddenly removed?

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SOAP APIs removed in 2.5.x?