I'm getting a 'use_prefix has been deprecated' error when I use the Stingray SOAP Control API

[riverbedjo]

I'm using the following code to query the SOAP API in my traffic manager:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use SOAP::Lite; 
# This is the url of the admin server 
my $admin_server = 'https://admin:[email protected]:9090'; 
my $conn = SOAP::Lite 
  -> uri('http://soap.zeus.com/zxtm/1.0/VirtualServer/') 
  -> proxy("$admin_server/soap"); 
# Get a list of virtual servers 
my $res = $conn->getVirtualServerNames(); 
my @names = @{$res->result}; 
# Establish which are enabled 
$res = $conn->getEnabled( \@names ); 
my @enabled = @{$res->result}; 
# Print those which are enabled 
for( my $i = 0; $i <= $#names; $i++ ) { 
  if( $enabled[$i] ) { 
    print "$names[$i]\n"; 
  } 
} 

... but I'm now getting an error message:

use_prefix has been deprecated. if you wish to turn off or on
the use of a default namespace, then please use either ns(uri)
or default_ns(uri) at /usr/share/perl5/SOAP/Lite.pm line 858

What's up?

[owen · Accepted solution]

This problem has caught out a number of users who have been using the Feature Brief: Stingray's SOAP Control API for a long time.

The SOAP::Lite library has deprecated the use of 'uri' to specify the namespace for a SOAP request - see SOAP::Lite for Perl: uri and use_prefix deprecated in next release for more information.  This change is slowly rolling out as users update their SOAP::Lite library instances.

In most cases, you can simply replace the call to 'uri' with a call to 'ns', as follows:

my $conn = SOAP::Lite   
  -> ns('http://soap.zeus.com/zxtm/1.0/VirtualServer/')   
  -> proxy("$admin_server/soap");