Soap Attachments

[KDederichs]

Feature Request

Q	A
New Feature	yes
RFC	no
BC Break	no

Summary

Since I saw #27 was closed without resolution I wanted to ask again if there's a way to use SOAP attachments now with this library.
I'm working with an API that's relaying on SOAP attachments for both sending and receiving (which I both have to do) and this library not being able to handle this is a big headache.

If you don't plan on implementing it, could you maybe give me some pointers on how to do it myself using middleware maybe?

[veewee]

Hello @KDederichs,

The issue was not closed but it moved to a discussion:
#357

There currently is still no official middleware that can deal with SOAP attachments like SwA and MTOM.
I would love to have one that we can provide out of the box from here though!

The statements in the initial ticket still stands:

• We currently don't have any service to test this on nor any direct customer that has this use-case.
• The provided technical details are still valid:
  • Dealing with attachments would mean parsing multipart HTTP messages and storing those intermediate files in some kind of file-bag so that it can be fetched later on based on the XOP include (either automatically somehow or manually)
• My time for working on this project is rather limited. However, I'm lucky to be able to be hired for these kind of tasks. See : https://github.com/php-soap/.github/blob/main/HELPING_OUT.md for more details

The way I see it, there are some ways forward:

• You can do the hard groundwork like understanding the spec and figuring out how to structure this yourself for your specific project.
  • If you would love to give this back to the community, I can always set up a project inside the php-soap organisation where we can discuss code and ideas around this. I would rather be your soundboard than the one creating the code. (It would be nice to have an initial version where we can incrementally improve upon)
• You can reach out to me as described in https://github.com/php-soap/.github/blob/main/HELPING_OUT.md#let-us-do-your-implementation so that we can discuss your specific project and figure out a solution for you on a paid consultancy basis. There are 2 ways we could do this:
  • We do your implementation and make sure you are able to work with attachments of which we could extract a separate library later on.
  • We can see it as a sponsorship in which you donate this SOAP attachment feature to the community.

I'dd be happy to discuss this with you in more detail!

[KDederichs]

I'll shoot you an email.