Problem with specific flights (FlightAware API)

FlightAware AeroAPI
1

Hello,
I’m using flightaware API 1.0 to track some flights, when i use the method FlightInfo() with JAF flights (ex: JAF1618,JAF1617 …) i get SoapFault error , the message indicates ‘looks like we got no XML document’ , ths problem occurs only with JAF flights .
Anyone else with this problem?

2

You’re using FlightXML 1, not FlightXML 2? We really recommend you use FlightXML 2 for new application development, if possible. Additionally, using FlightInfoEx instead of FlightInfo would be ideal.

What programming language are you developing from?

Would it be possible to provide a small sample program that replicates this problem for us?

3

I tried FlightXML2 , it shows me a Soap faullt error with this message ‘Method invalid command name “domNode0x207c8ce0 domNode0x12c225b0 domNode0x207c8c90” not found’ .
Im using PHP and this is the code that im using with FlightXML 1:


<?php

class ServiceInfosFlight
{
	public function connectApi()
	{
		$options = array(
            'trace' => true,
            'exceptions' => 0,
            'login' => 'NavetteVatry',
            'password' => 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
        );

        $client = new SoapClient('https://fr.flightaware.com/commercial/flightxml/data/wsdl1.xml', $options);
        return $client;
	}
	 public function flightInf($code)
    {
        $client = $this->connectApi();
        $result=$client->FlightInfo($code,15);
	return $result;
    }


}
$sif= new ServiceInfosFlight();
var_dump($sif->flightInf('JAF1618'));
die;
?>

and this is the code with flightXML 2:


<?php

class ServiceInfosFlight
{
	public function connectApi()
	{
		$options = array(
            'trace' => true,
            'exceptions' => 0,
            'login' => 'NavetteVatry',
            'password' => 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
        );

        $client = new SoapClient('http://flightxml.flightaware.com/soap/FlightXML2/wsdl', $options);
        return $client;
	}
	 public function flightInf($code)
    {
        $client = $this->connectApi();
        $result=$client->FlightInfoEx($code,15,0);
		return $result;
    }

	
	
	

}
$sif= new ServiceInfosFlight();
var_dump($sif->flightInf('JAF1618'));
die;
?>

I really appreciate any help you can provide.

4

Can you try the following? I believe you just need to pass the arguments in an array, as shown on our PHP SoapClient example:


public function flightInf($code)
    {
        $client = $this->connectApi();
        $params = array("ident" => $code, "howMany" => 15, "offset" => 0);
        $result=$client->FlightInfoEx($params);
      return $result;
    }
5

works great , thank you :slight_smile: