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09 January 2009 at 09:01

Create an Umbraco document with Perl and Web services

Tags: document using Web services , media service , Perl , Technology Internet
Author: Darren Ferguson

This isn't a blog post as such, just a code snippet that may be quite useful.

I spent quite a bit of time figuring out how to get Perl and Soap::Lite to do complex data types the other day. The following code creates a new Umbraco document using Web services.

use strict;
use SOAP::Lite +trace => 'debug';
use HTML::Entities;
use Date::Format;
use Data::Dumper;

use constant HOST => 'www.mydomain.com';
use constant UID  => 'myuid';
use constant PWD  => 'secrit';

my $access =
  SOAP::Lite->proxy(
	'http://' . HOST . '/umbraco/webservices/api/DocumentService.asmx' )
  ->uri('http://umbraco.org/webservices/')
  ->on_action( sub { sprintf '%s%s', @_ } );

my $data = SOAP::Data->name(
	"carrier" => \SOAP::Data->value(
		# SOAP::Data->name( 'Id' => 0 ),
		SOAP::Data->name( 'Name'           => 'This is a test'),
		SOAP::Data->name( 'DocumentTypeID' => 1042 ),
		SOAP::Data->name( 'ParentID'       => 1049 ),
		SOAP::Data->name( 'HasChildren'    => 'false' ),
		SOAP::Data->name( 'PublishAction'  => 'Publish' ),
		SOAP::Data->name( 'Published'      => 'true' ),
		# SOAP::Data->name( 'ReleaseDate' => time2str('%Y-%m-%d', time) ),
		# SOAP::Data->name( 'ExpireDate' => time2str('%Y-%m-%d', time) ),
		SOAP::Data->name(
			"DocumentProperties" => \SOAP::Data->value(
				SOAP::Data->name(
					"documentProperty" => \SOAP::Data->value(
						SOAP::Data->name( 'Key'          => 'Title' ),
						SOAP::Data->name( 'PropertyValue' => 'This is a test' ),
					)
				),
				SOAP::Data->name(
					"documentProperty" => \SOAP::Data->value(
						SOAP::Data->name( "Key" => 'bodyText' ),
						SOAP::Data->name(
							"PropertyValue" => encode_entities('<p>This is some html</p>')
						),
					)
				),
				SOAP::Data->name(
					"documentProperty" => \SOAP::Data->value(
						SOAP::Data->name( "Key" => 'DisplayDate' ),
						SOAP::Data->name(
							"PropertyValue" => time2str( '%Y-%m-%d', time )
						),
					)
				)
			)
		)
	  )

);

# print SOAP::Serializer->autotype(0)->serialize($data);
my $username = SOAP::Data->type( string => UID )->name('username');
my $password = SOAP::Data->type( string => PWD )->name('password');

my $result = $access->create( $data, $username, $password );
print Dumper( $result->result );

During this process, I also realised that the Umbraco media service is incomplete so I'll try and get access to the source and complete this.

Written by: Darren Ferguson