[wsf-c-dev] [PHP] WSService API additions

[James Clark]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:23 +0600, Samisa Abeysinghe wrote:
> It looks to me that we are into a problem with the wrapper.
> The problem scenario is like this.
> 1. In the SOAP ext service code, user adds the function 'foo()' to be an 
> operation of the service. This function, including the service 
> implementation is in a script called bar.php
> 2. Our wrapper now needs to call this function, but our service object 
> is created in the wrapper source SoapServer.php
> 3. Now when handle() is called, we create the WSService object in 
> handle() wrapper in SoapServer.php and tries to call 'foo()' in bar.php.
>     Our wrapper does not know anything about bar.php, and hence nothing 
> anout 'foo()' function.
> 4. Hence the wrapper function that we were talking about to call this 
> method form user code needs to use reflection. Our wrapper function in 
> turn has to be called by service code of our C extension.


I don't completely understand your explanation. Are you saying
reflection solves the problem? but maybe PHP's "Variable Functions"
would help here:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.variable-functions.php


> As of now, our operation implementations only take a WSMessage as a 
> parameter. But we have to support an API where it takes a second mixed
> argument.

Is this the only remaining problem?

James