Is it possible to consume a web service in a c++ service application

Question

I am trying to consume a web service in my c++ service application using the WSDL importer. I can import the web service but as soon as I want to use some of the webmethods by including service.h in my file I get the following error:

Unit1.cpp(64): E2015 Ambiguity between 'Soap::Wsdlbind::TService' and 'Vcl::Svcmgr::TService'

I imported this web service to a VCL forms application and that worked perfectly.

I am using RAD Studio XE2. How do I fix this?

Answer 1

That simply means that you have a name clash in your code, i.e. you have somewhere something like

//Header names should be different, just for the sake of the example
#include Soap/Wsdlbin/TService.h
#include Vcl/Svcmgr/TService.h
<some namespace using directives>
...

TService service;

And the compiler cannot determine which TService it is. You have to qualify TService so that the compiler know which to use, i.e.:

Soap::Wsdlbind::TService service;
//or
Vcl::Svcmgr::TService service;