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The MetaEdit+ SOAP/WebServices API is intended to allow anyone to use their favourite language to write programs that interact with MetaEdit+. The SOAP API interface is supplied as a WSDL file, which any programming languages SOAP framework can read and generate a set of classes / functions that allow the MetaEdit+ API functions to be called transparently.
Most SOAP calls really are transparent - it feels like calling a local function on local data, e.g.
surname=parentObject.valueAt(2);
childObject.setValueAt(2, surname);
Some things in SOAP however require a bit of work, e.g. converting data between SOAP types and native types. Our examples show the conversion - the code is only a couple of lines, and it's best for people to see what's actually going on. But as you write longer programs those lines get repeated often, so it's probably best to put them into their own utility function.
With so many languages and SOAP libraries, plus their different versions, it's impossible for MetaCase to provide these utility functions for everyone. Our hope was that the community of users, each knowing more about their own programming language and SOAP framework than MetaCase can, would share any utility functions or frameworks they made.
It's taken a while, but now there are quite a few such bits of code floating around - and the question is what is the best way to share them. We'd love it if people were able to share, improve and extend these things, to help themselves and others. So pick your favourite(s) of the above set, whichever would be easiest for you to grab from and to partcipate in.
Thanks,
Steve
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