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I’m using applescript to send SOAP requests around here and parse the results, but with one specific webservice call I need to make, the parameter “name” is tripping me up:
tell application "http://web/service/url"
set resultText to call soap {method name:"soapMethod", method namespace uri:"http://web/service/uri", parameters:{buildId:5 as integer, name:"this is a test" as string, ldapId:"user" as string}}
end tell
For some reason, the “name” parameter is changed to “pnam”, and the order of the parameter is broken…
Here is the output from a packet sniffer:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<m:soapMethod xmlns:m="http://web/service/uri">
<pnam xsi:type="xsd:string">this is a test</pnam>
<buildid xsi:type="xsd:int">5</buildid>
<ldapid xsi:type="xsd:string">user</ldapid>
</m:createTestSession>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
As you can tell, “name” is being munged to pnam, for no reason I can figure out. I was hoping the experts here could shed some light 
BTW, I tried quoting the SOAP call parameter names, like this:
parameters:{“buildId”:5 as integer, “name”:“this is a test” as string, “ldapId”:“user” as string}
Applescript didn’t like that, neither did it like single quotes.