How to contribute to WSF/PHP project

As an open source software development project, WSF/PHP always encourage users,developers to raise bugs, and post patches etc. Of course if you have any great idea related to WSF/PHP or some enhancement to WSF/PHP, you are most welcome to contribute.

Lets see how you can contribute to WSF/PHP project in various ways. If you encounter a bug, you can first check on the svn to see whether it is already fixed as well.

1. How do I provide a patch to WSF/PHP .

Step1.

WSF/PHP uses svn as its version control system. You can checkout the source code of WSF/PHP from the following URL.

https://wso2.org/repos/wso2/trunk/wsf/php/

On windows you can use Tortoise SVN to checkout the source code as follows.

Step 1.

Create a folder to which you will checkout the source code.

Step2. Check out the code

 

Now you can make any changes or additions, you would like to make.

Step 3.

Use create patch option in Tortoise svn to create a patch.

 

This should provide you with a patch file.

Step 4.

Go to WSO2 Jira project and select WSF/PHP project

Select WSF/PHP project    

                                          

Go to create new issue options and select WSO2 WSF/PHP from projects drop down menu. Then select the issue type

Now in this issue form, you can fill out information about the issue.

Next fill out the issue description, your testing environment, and attach the patch.

Now click create button to create the issue.

This way you can contribute to WSF/PHP project which is used by a large number of PHP Developers worldwide. Looking forward to your contributions.

Introduction to reliable messaging part 3

In this blog post, we will look at how you can send multiple application messages within a single sequence reliably using

WSClient API.  For this purpose WSClient has an option named willContinueSequence. If you intend to send only a since application message within your reliable sequence, then you do not need to touch this option. However, when sending multiple application messages, you need to use it as follows.

1. When sending the first message, set willContinueSequence=TRUE in WSClient.

2. Send your application messages by using WSMessage object.

3. When you want to send the final application message to be sent within the reliable sequence, set the option lastMessage to true.

Here is a code example demonstrating this.

Step 1. First create an application message.

$requestPayloadString = <<<XML
    <ns1:pingString xmlns:ns1="http://wso2.org/wsfphp/samples/reliable">
        <text>Hello World!</text>
    </ns1:pingString>
XML;

Step 2. Create a WSClient object with willContinueSequence option set to TRUE

$client = new WSClient(array( "reliable" => TRUE, "useWSA" => TRUE, "willContinueSequence" => TRUE));

Step 3. Create and Send WSMessage objects containing application messages.

$message = new WSMessage($requestPayloadString,
           array( "to" => "http://localhost/samples/reliable/ping_service_rm.php",
                  "action" => http://wso2.org/wsfphp/samples/pingString));

$client->send($message);

$message1 = new WSMessage($requestPayloadString,
            array( "to" => "http://localhost/samples/reliable/ping_service_rm.php",
                   "action" => "http://wso2.org/wsfphp/samples/pingString"));

    $client->send($message1);

Step 4. When you want to send the last application message, set the option lastMessage to true in WSMessage object.

$message2 = new WSMessage($requestPayloadString,
    array( "to" => "http://localhost/samples/reliable/ping_service_rm.php",
           "action" => "http://wso2.org/wsfphp/samples/pingString",
           "lastMessage" => TRUE));

$client->send($message2);

Note that this is a ping service and hence the use of the method send in WSClient. You can similarly use request method as well.

Introduction to reliable messaging part 2

In my previous blog post, we had a look at a set of messages exchanged between a web services client and a server using WS-Reliable Messaging protocol.  Today, we will explore the API available in WSF/PHP to achieve reliable messaging.

WS-Reliable messaging API in WSF/PHP is a simple an uncomplicated one. Lets go thorough each of the options available on WS-Client to achieve reliable messaging.

To enable WS-Reliable Messaging you need to use the "reliable" option in WS-Client. However, for WS-RM to work, it is mandatory to have WS-Addressing enabled. There for you need to  enable WS-Addressing or at least define the "action" option in WS-Client. If the action is present, and "reliable" options is set to "true", WSF/PHP will automatically enables WS-Addressing and enables Reliable Messaging. So following options are valid on WS-Client to enable reliable messaging.

1.

oparray["action"] = "http://wso2.org/wso2-wsf-php";

oparray["reliable"]= TRUE;

client = new WSClient(oparray);

2.

oparray["action"] ="http://wso2.org/wso2-wsf-php"

oparray["reliable"]=1.1

In this option, we are telling WS-Client to use WS-RM version 1.1.

In my next blog post, we will explore other configuration options of WSClient and WS-Service