[ic] SOAP access to Interchange

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Chris Sendall (cjs2 at admin.cam.ac.uk):
> interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org wrote:
> global_config goes through each of the four catalogs and 
> calls config_named_catalog for each of my catalogs
> config_named_catalog calls this block
>        eval {
>                 $Vend::Cfg = $c;
>                 $::Variable = $Vend::Cfg->{Variable};
>                 $::Pragma   = $Vend::Cfg->{Pragma};
>                 Vend::Data::read_salestax();
>                 Vend::Data::read_shipping();
>                 open_database(1);
>                 my $db;
>                 close_database();
>        }
> which sets the $::Variable hash. It seems to process the catalogs in
> alphabetical order so at the end of global_config the variables from the last of
> the four catalogs tutorial is set
> 
> when soap_server is called the $::Variable->{FILE_NAME} is set to tutorial value
> when http_soap is called this is still true
> when http_soap sets catname to /foundcscp should it call config_named_catalog?

config_named_catalog is what happens at configuration time, not at runtime.

> 
> What I find odd that the correct database is opened (foundcscp) but I don't see
> where this is done.

OK, I think I see the problem. The $::Variable and other such things
($::Items, etc) are not getting remapped. That means the equivalent
of a Vend::Dispatch::open_cat() is not getting done.

Try this patch to Server.pm and see if all is OK. I am unsure of what
the effect of open_database() will be -- while I wrote the SOAP stuff
originally I was not the last to work on it.

--- /r/Server.pm	2004-07-27 19:48:35.000000000 -0500
+++ /rt/Server.pm	2005-04-18 12:28:26.872905336 -0500
@@ -1883,6 +1883,7 @@
 			}
 			else {
 #::logDebug("we have our SOAP enable, entity is $entity");
+				open_cat($Vend::Cat);
 				($Vend::SessionID, $CGI::cookiehost) = split /:/, $env{SESSION_ID};
 #::logDebug("Received ID=$Vend::SessionID, host='$CGI::cookiehost'");
 				$Vend::NoInterpolate = 1

-- 
Mike Heins
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