[ic] Status of SOAP in CVS stable 4.8.3

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Brian Kosick (briank@nacs.net):
> Hello list,
>          I have a question...  What's the status of the IC SOAP API in the 
> current stable branch of IC?

I am getting ready to leave on vacation for a while, so I thought
I would let you know that:

	1. It works.
	2. You must use SOAP::Lite 0.49 or lower, as they changed
           their API in 0.51 and it breaks things for IC.

I recommend building some SOAP::Lite projects without IC before you
start using it as a server or client. I could see it requiring some
consulting help.

> I have a project that has an existing admin area
> written in php4.  and a client of ours would like to use IC as basically a 
> credit card processor with an eye for revamping the rest of the site in IC 
> in the future.  I've all ready set up IC to read the existing tables, and 
> would like to just have to write the SOAP calls in php, instead of having 
> to rewrite the few existing admin areas in IML.  Is the API going to be 
> relatively stable?  Or can I expect changes?  Maybe the 4.9.x devel branch 
> would be more appropriate for what I'm looking to do.

We haven't touched SOAP in it yet, and have no immediate plans to.


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