Difference between revisions of "SOAP transport"

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SMIL media players often also provide a network interface based on SOAP (historically short for "Simple Object Access Protocol").

SOAP Interfaces

A typical SOAP network API supports the following objects and methods from a digital signage media player:

Session

• Login(): initiate a new command session
• Logout(): end a command session

ContentManager

• CreateObject(): upload a file into the media player
• FindObjet(): enumerate files in the media player
• RemoveResource(): delete a file in the media player

MediaControl

• Play(): play a SMIL

Related

Programming tools including the Visual Studio Express directly suports making SOAP calls from Windows. More information is available below.

• Managing SMIL players from Visual Studio Express
• WSDL description of the SOAP interface