PowerShell: Exception calling "GetListItems" with "7" argument(s) - powershell

Question

Attempting to Get List Items from SharePoint using PowerShell.
I used the example from here Windows PowerShell Blog, modified it to use with my site. Now I get the following error:
Exception calling "GetListItems" with "7" argument(s): "Exception of type 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SoapServer.SoapServerException' was thrown."
At line:30 char:1
+ $list = $service.GetListItems($listName, "", $query, $viewFields, $rowLimit, $qu ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SoapException
Script I am using:
# The uri refers to the path of the service description, e.g. the .asmx page
$uri = "http://SITE/sites/DefaultCollection/Engineering/Subsite%20(UK)/_vti_bin/lists.asmx"
# Create the service
$service = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -Namespace SpWs -UseDefaultCredential
# The name of the list
$listName = "Test1"
# Create xml query to retrieve list.
$xmlDoc = new-object System.Xml.XmlDocument
$query = $xmlDoc.CreateElement("Query")
$viewFields = $xmlDoc.CreateElement("ViewFields")
$queryOptions = $xmlDoc.CreateElement("QueryOptions")
$query.set_InnerXml("FieldRef Name='Text1'")
$rowLimit = "10"
$list = $null
$service = $null
try
{
$service = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -Namespace SpWs -UseDefaultCredential
}
catch
{
Write-Error $_ -ErrorAction:'SilentlyContinue'
}
$list = $service.GetListItems($listName, "", $query, $viewFields, $rowLimit, $queryOptions, "")
if($service -ne $null)
{
try
{
$list = $service.GetListItems($listName, "", $query, $viewFields, $rowLimit, $queryOptions, "")
}
catch
{
Write-Error $_ -ErrorAction:'SilentlyContinue'
}
}
Anyone tried this before? How can I resolve this issue?

Answer 1

Here's the solution worked for me..
Add "?WSDL" to the end of $uri string
$uri = "http://SITE/sites/DefaultCollection/Engineering/Subsite%20(UK)/_vti_bin/lists.asmx?WSDL"
According to this link:To return a service description of a Web service that was created by using ASP.NET, append "?WSDL" to the URL of the Web service (for example, http://www.ss64.com/MyWebService.asmx?WSDL)

Answer 2

The line it is throwing the error at is:
$list = $service.GetListItems($listName, "", $query, $viewFields, $rowLimit, $queryOptions, "")
That line is not caught, but here is a similar issue throwing the same error. If you want to try and get a better exception, wrap the line in another try catch:
try{
$list = $service.GetListItems($listName, "", $query, $viewFields, $rowLimit, $queryOptions, "")
}
catch{
[System.Exception]
write-host ($_.Exception).Message
}

Answer 3

Please make sure to add "?WSDL" to your URI which is why the code breaks. Pretends like it doesn't know the definition of the function (atleast I guess)...
Like the one below. I was surprised to see this made my code work. Weird..
$uri = "http://<>/sites/DefaultCollection/Engineering/Subsite%20(UK)/_vti_bin/lists.asmx?WSDL"