Research on Zend_Soap classmap feature

[moyarada]

Preliminary Zend_Soap didn't work with namespaces and objects received in service classes weren't equal to specified in WSDL.

There should be implemented a method, which returns a classmap for given service class.

For example,
$service = new services\ExampleService();
$legkoXml = new xsd2php\Wsdl($service);
$soap = new Zend_Soap_Server("http://localhost/api/soap.php?wsdl");
$soap->setObject($service);
$soap->setClassmap($legkoXml->getClassMap());
$soap->handle();

getClassMap() should return an associative array as follows:

array('SOAP Type' => 'PHP Class',
       'SOAP Type' => 'PHP Class',
        ....
      )

[moyarada]

There is no point of using Zend_Soap_Server, as it adds little value to SoapServer.
SoapServer supports type mapping as follows
'typemap' => array(
array('type_name' => 'TName', 'type_ns' => 't:NS', 'from_xml' => 'callback', 'to_xml' => 'callback')
)

Where "from_xml" and "to_xml" are callbacks used for marshalling/unmarshalling SOAP messages. This is where LegkoXML could be integrated.
My idea is to implement SoapServer based class, which encapsulates type mapping, so that incoming and outgoing SOAP messages marshalled/unmarshalled according to their XML Schema.

[moyarada]

First implementation of a custome SoapServer requires further development. However, prototype worked really fine returning fully initialized bindings to a service method