.NET SOAP Web Service client and Borland SOAP server


If you have a SOAP server created with Borland Delphi and
a SOAP client created with .NET, then you can't get it working out of the box. You'll get deserialization error on client side. Some changes are required in the SOAP server to make it compatible with the .NET client.

You need to go to the SOAP web module, select the

HTTPSoapPascalInvoker

, and make sure the option "

soRootRefNodesToBody

"
is

true

.

If you have

DateTime

fields in your

TRemotable

objects,
then you need to override the

ObjectToSOAP

function like this (because if you don't, then the deserializer
will just skip the

DateTime

fields):

BillInfoType = class(TRemotable)

...

function BillInfoType.ObjectToSOAP(RootNode, ParentNode: IXMLNode;
const ObjConverter: IObjConverter; const Name,
URI: InvString; ObjConvOpts: TObjectConvertOptions;
out RefID: InvString): IXMLNode;
begin
ObjConvOpts := ObjConvOpts + [ocoDontPrefixNode];
result := inherited ObjectToSOAP(RootNode, ParentNode, ObjConverter, Name, URI, ObjConvOpts, RefID);
end;