Kirin is off at my parent's house this week. The house is so quiet without her around! It's hard to see her grow up so fast!

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <SOAP-ENV:Body>
      <locationCollection>
         <Location>
            <name>AME s438</name>
            <id>452</id>
            <latitude>32.236322</latitude>
            <longitude>-110.951614</longitude>
         </Location>
         <Location>
            <name>ECE 229</name>
            <id>45</id>
            <latitude>32.235069</latitude>
            <longitude>-110.953417</longitude>
         </Location>
      </locationCollection>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

However what I was getting instead was:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <SOAP-ENV:Body>
      <locationCollection>
         <SOAP-ENC:Struct>
            <name>AME s438</name>
            <id>452</id>
            <latitude>32.236322</latitude>
            <longitude>-110.951614</longitude>
         </SOAP-ENC:Struct>
         <SOAP-ENC:Struct>
            <name>ECE 229</name>
            <id>45</id>
            <latitude>32.235069</latitude>
            <longitude>-110.953417</longitude>
         </SOAP-ENC:Struct>
      </locationCollection>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Here was my original code for the server:

<?php
$wsdl = 'http://example.com/locations_service.wsdl';
$service = new SoapServer($wsdl);

$service->addFunction('getComputerLabs');
$service->handle();

function getComputerLabs($input) {
  $all_locations = resource::get_all(FALSE, 'location');

  $return_array = array();

  foreach ($all_locations as $l) {

    // Build a basic return object.
    $new_loc = new Location();
    $new_loc->name = $l->name;
    $new_loc->id = $l->resource_id;
    $new_loc->latitude = $l->getProperty('Latitude');
    $new_loc->longitude = $l->getProperty('Longitude');

    $return_array[] = $new_loc;
  }

  return $return_array;
}

class Location {
    public $name;
    public $id;
    public $description;
    public $url;
    public $buildingName;
    public $roomNumber;
    public $openStatus;
    public $latitude;
    public $longitude;
}
?>

Apparently the SOAP library really prefers that everything is an object. In php 5 they added an ArrayObject class. This coupled with a SoapVar call fixed my output for me.

<?php
function getComputerLabs($input) {
  $all_locations = resource::get_all(FALSE, 'location');

  /**
   * Use an ArrayObject instead of a plain array.
   */
  $return_array = new ArrayObject();

  foreach ($all_locations as $l) {

    // Build a basic return object.
    $new_loc = new Location();
    $new_loc->name = $l->name;
    $new_loc->id = $l->resource_id;
    $new_loc->latitude = $l->getProperty('Latitude');
    $new_loc->longitude = $l->getProperty('Longitude');

    /**
     * Encode each array element with SoapVar.  Parameter 5 is the name of the
     * XML element you want to use.  This only seems to work within
     * an ArrayObject.
     */
    $new_loc = new SoapVar($new_loc, SOAP_ENC_OBJECT, null, null, 'Location');

    $return_array->append($new_loc);
  }

  return $return_array;
}
?>

Note that with only the ArrayObject part, and before I figured out the SoapVar wrapper, I was getting this interesting BOGUS tag:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <SOAP-ENV:Body>
      <locationCollection>
         <BOGUS>
            <name>AME s438</name>
            <id>452</id>
            <latitude>32.236322</latitude>
            <longitude>-110.951614</longitude>
         </BOGUS>
         <BOGUS>
            <name>ECE 229</name>
            <id>45</id>
            <latitude>32.235069</latitude>
            <longitude>-110.953417</longitude>
         </BOGUS>
      </locationCollection>
   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

First pumpkin of the season!

Guess what I got for Father's Day!

Kirin and I wandered around Reid Park this Saturday. Couldn't pass up this shot!

Kirin had her 3rd birthday party up in Phoenix this past weekend. Much fun was had by all!

Well, I populated the circuit board tonight, soldered up all the components, tossed in some batteries, and flipped the switch!

And nothing happened.

After ten minutes or so poking at the traces with my multimeter, I discovered that I have one trace out of place leading into the power switch. Fortunately a simple jumper from one pin to another on the switch was able to fix the problem. And it worked!

I have to admit, this thing looks pretty damn good! Not too shabby for my first PCB layout and project. I think I started toying around with this design over a year ago, so it’s pretty cool to actually hold a real, physical, blinking thing in my hands.

UITS Circuit People EAGLE Schematic Files