ColdFusion SOAP Call to API - soap

Question

I am following RegOnline's developer pages to set up an API call to our server. They offer various examples of how to handshake (PHP, C#, JS, SOAP), the last one has the poorest example of how to include an API token as part of a method call.
http://developer.regonline.com/authentication-basics/
I am trying to call their GetEvent method, and this call has to include an API token that I have generated. However, based on their SOAP example, I am left guessing as to how to include the value of token. The following is their example:
<s:complexType name="TokenHeader">
<s:sequence>
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="APIToken" type="s:string"/>
</s:sequence>
<s:anyAttribute/>
</s:complexType>
The other examples on the page have full versions that show explicitly where you could hard code the token if you had to. I will admit my knowledge of SOAP is minimal currently so perhaps I'm missing something in this example.
Here is my attempt to call the method. It only spits out a page of their documentation and a 200 OK status, which is not right.
<cfset apiToken = "xxxxx" />
<cfset eventID = "xxxxxx" />
<cfsavecontent variable="soapBody">
<cfoutput>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<GetEvent xmlns="http://www.regonline.com/api">
<eventID>#eventID#</eventID>
</GetEvent>
</s:Body>
</s:Envelope>
<s:complexType name="TokenHeader">
<s:sequence>
<s:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1" name="APIToken" type="s:string">
#apiToken#
</s:element>
</s:sequence>
<s:anyAttribute/>
</s:complexType>
</cfoutput>
</cfsavecontent>
<cfhttp url="https://www.regonline.com/api" method="get" result="theCFHTTP" redirect="true">
<cfhttpparam type="HEADER" name="Content-Type" value="text/xml; charset=utf-8">
<cfhttpparam type="HEADER" name="Accept" value="application/soap+xml, multipart/related, text/*">
<cfhttpparam type="HEADER" name="User-Agent" value="Axis/1.1">
<cfhttpparam type="HEADER" name="Cache-Control" value="no-cache">
<cfhttpparam type="HEADER" name="Pragma" value="no-cache">
<cfhttpparam type="HEADER" name="SOAPAction" value="https://www.regonline.com/api/default.asmx/GetEvent">
<cfhttpparam type="HEADER" name="Content-Length" value="#len(soapBody)#">
<cfhttpparam type="xml" name="body" value="#soapBody#">
</cfhttp>
<cfdump var="#theCFHTTP#">

Answer 1

Your SOAP request is in a wrong format. All of the SOAP request should be within the SOAP envelope. Here is the template created in SoapUI for the getEvent request.
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:api="http://www.regonline.com/api">
<soapenv:Header>
<api:TokenHeader>
<!--Optional:-->
<api:APIToken>?</api:APIToken>
</api:TokenHeader>
</soapenv:Header>
<soapenv:Body>
<api:GetEvent>
<api:eventID>?</api:eventID>
</api:GetEvent>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
For the call itself, you may need to try post over get, but I'm unsure about this. The one thing I think you might need to update is the SOAPAction. In my test call in SoapUI, the action in the header was http://www.regonline.com/api/GetEvent. Though it may work both ways.

Answer 2

That's sort of not what you want to do. With SOAP calls, you just follow the XML they provided in the documentation (https://www.regonline.com/api/default.asmx?op=GetEvent).
So in the particular case, you want to replace the CSSAVECONTENT variable soapBody to below:
<cfsavecontent variable="soapBody">
<cfoutput>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Header>
<TokenHeader xmlns="http://www.regonline.com/api">
<APIToken>#apiToken#</APIToken>
</TokenHeader>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<GetEvent xmlns="http://www.regonline.com/api">
<eventID>#eventID#</eventID>
</GetEvent>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
</cfoutput>
</cfsavecontent>
See what that returns for you.