Documentation missing/outdated

[hajdun]

URL of the page

https://github.com/strongloop/loopback.io/blob/gh-pages/pages/en/lb3/Connecting-to-SOAP.md

Nature of the issue

Among others, the mentioned soap service (http://www.webservicex.net/periodictable.asmx) is NOT available. The example code based on this page is not working.

Worst of all is that the step-by-step guide did result in a not-working mess.
Some of the plugins breaks the SOAP schema and it will not be able to send and receive SOAP messages.

Is this an issue with the layout/behavior/UX of the site or a problem with missing/inaccurate documentation content?
Both :(

Expected behavior

What did you expect to happen?
I expected this tutorial to work
https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb3/Connecting-to-SOAP.html

Actual behavior

Doc not helpful. Result (applied in my context) is

soap:Client faultstring: Unmarshalling Error: unexpected element (uri:"", local:"__cached Relations").
similar to thishttps://github.com/loopbackio/loopback-connector-soap/issues/77

Suggested resolution

Please fix documentation at least. Add a working service and working steps. Thanks!

[dhmlau]

@hajdun, sorry that we haven't had the chance to clean up the docs after the service in webservicex.net become unavailable. Would you be interested in submitting a PR for fixing the docs?

A community user helped us to fix the tests by using another web service: https://github.com/strongloop/loopback-connector-soap/blob/master/test/test.js.

[b-admike]

From @raymondfeng:

• Create and use a dockerized SOAP web service which can be used as a test bed for the example for the documentation page

[hajdun]

I cannot, that is a 3rd party. Here is a free SOAP API I found (also 3rd party): https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/Geocode/WebService/v04_01/Simple/SOAP/

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