PHP5's namespaces lead to an incorrect WSDL type name while implementing a webservice

Question

I'm trying to implement a SOAP server using `Zend_Soap_Server` class in PHP. Here's the `webservice.php` file which is the entry point of request: ``` 'http://localhost' . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); if (isset($_GET['wsdl'])){ $server = new Zend_Soap_AutoDiscover(); $server->setClass('Math'); } else { $server = new Zend_Soap_Server(null, $options); $server->setClass('Math'); $server->setObject(new Math()); } $server->handle(); ``` And I've got `library.php` file like this: ``` original = $num; $this->incre…

Accepted Answer

The XSD object type `\Library\IncrementedInt` is not a PHP class within a PHP namespace like you outline:

```
<?php
namespace Library;

class IncrementedInt
{
    ...
```

The prefixed type actualy is:

```
tns:\Library\IncrementedInt
```

And mind the `tns:` in front which is the prefix. You could not express is in PHP which becomes even more clear when you expand it to it's namespace URI:

```
{http://localhost/webservice.php}\Library\IncrementedInt
```

Also Zend SOAP comes from a time before PHP Namespaces (PHP 5.2), therefore it needs to take a different strategy to alias this type to a PHP type (classname). It takes the local-name of the type:

```
\Library\IncrementedInt
```

And replaces each "invalid" character in that type-name with an underscore:

```
_Library_IncrementedInt
```

You therefore need to name the class that way:

```
<?php

class _Library_IncrementedInt
{
    ...
```

If you want to have it working out of the box.

You then asked via comments for clarification:

So what you are saying is that, there's nothing I can do to have a namespaced class as a type name, right?

Well, as far as for the default behavior most likely not, however as the term Strategy is involved, I'd say there is some mechanism to extend Zend Soap for that operation and inject a different one which for example does allow namespaced classes (classes by their FQCN), see the Strategy Pattern.

And if this is only a single class you can do some cheap trick in the meanwhile and extend your namespaced class as the short name or alias it with `class_alias`.

PHP5's namespaces lead to an incorrect WSDL type name while implementing a webservice

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