Laravel, with NuSOAP in a controller, does not work

Having a NuSOAP web service defined in an inline route closure function works great, but having it in a route closure controller does not.

Example: working

routes.php:

Route::any('api', function() {
    require_once ('nusoap.php');
    $server = new \nusoap_server();

    $server->configureWSDL('TestService', false, url('api'));

    $server->register('test',
        array('input' => 'xsd:string'),
        array('output' => 'xsd:string'),
    );

    function test($input){
        return $input;
    }

    $rawPostData = file_get_contents("php://input");
    return \Response::make($server->service($rawPostData), 200, array('Content-Type' => 'text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1'));
});

SOAP Test Client

require_once('nusoap.php');

$client = new \nusoap_client('http://ift.tt/2fymHco', true);

$result = $client->call("test", "HelloWorld");

print_r($result); exit();

response

HelloWorld

This works as expected.

Example: not working

Moving the code to a dedicated controller breaks it:

routes.php:

Route::any('api', 'SoapController@server');

SoapController.php:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class SoapController extends Controller {

    public function server() {
        require_once ('nusoap.php');
        $server = new \nusoap_server();

        $server->configureWSDL('TestService', false, url('api'));

        $server->register('test',
            array('input' => 'xsd:string'),
            array('output' => 'xsd:string'),
        );

        function test($input){
            return $input;
        }

        $rawPostData = file_get_contents("php://input");
        return \Response::make($server->service($rawPostData), 200, array('Content-Type' => 'text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1'));
    }

}

SOAP Test Client

require_once('nusoap.php');

$client = new \nusoap_client('http://ift.tt/2fymHco', true);

$result = $client->call("test", "HelloWorld");

print_r($result); exit();

response

"method 'test' ('test') not defined in service('' '')

Steps To Reproduce:

1. Install a fresh copy of Laravel v5.2.45
2. Download the last NuSOAP version (v0.9.5)
3. Define the route for the NuSOAP Web Service - copy and paste the code from above
4. Create the SoapController - copy and paste the code from above
5. Create a new temp route to act as the SOAP client, and copy and paste the code beneath SOAP Test Client above into this route's closure function
6. Load the temp route page in the browser to execute a SOAP call to the Web Service

Conclusion:

This indicates, that for some reason, the output is different when using an inline route function versus using a dedicated route controller.

How could this be?

Your insight greatly appreciated:

If you have:

• any experience with this and you have a solution
• or, you have an idea on why this could occur
• or, you have any thoughts on why having the NuSOAP code in the controller generates a different response than having it in an inline route function

...please chime in.

Thank you for your thoughts!

via Chebli Mohamed