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@loopback/example-soap-calculator

Integrating a Calculator SOAP web service with LoopBack 4.

Overview

This example project shows how to integrate a SOAP web service with LoopBack 4 and expose its methods through the REST API server. Acceptance and Integration tests are provided.

Before each step, you will be presented an image containing the artifacts that you will be creating in blue.

soap-calculator-overview

Setup

You'll need to make sure you have some things installed:

Lastly, you'll need to install the LoopBack 4 CLI toolkit:

npm i -g @loopback/cli

Start the Tutorial

Follow the following steps to start buiding your application:

Steps

  1. SOAP Web Service Overview
  2. Scaffold the Application
  3. Add a data source
  4. Add a Service
  5. Add a controller
  6. Register the service
  7. Run and Test the application

Try it out

If you'd like to see the final results of this tutorial as an example application, follow these steps:

Generate the example using CLI

  1. Run the lb4 example command to select and clone the soap-calculator repository:
$ lb4 example
? What example would you like to clone? (Use arrow keys)
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  todo-list: Continuation of the todo example using relations in LoopBack 4.
  hello-world: A simple hello-world Application using LoopBack 4.
  log-extension: An example extension project for LoopBack 4.
  rpc-server: A basic RPC server using a made-up protocol.
> soap-calculator: An example on how to integrate SOAP web services.
  1. Jump into the directory and then install the required dependencies:
cd loopback4-example-soap-calculator
  1. Finally, start the application!
$ npm start

Server is running at http://127.0.0.1:3000

Feel free to look around in the application's code to get a feel for how it works.

License

MIT