SOAP Magento Error on Customer.Create - magento

Question

I am trying to create a customer from the Magja project and the AxisFault i am getting is a 100 "Customer email is required." . I am passing over the correct minimum required params from the 1.7 documentation. Long story my fault code is saying i am not including my email BUT it is clearly there (not putting the sensitive info on SO...so you just have to trust me :) ). Any Ideas?
Stack
org.eclipse.debug.core.DebugException: com.sun.jdi.ClassNotLoadedException: Type has not been loaded occurred while retrieving component type of array.
//soapclient line 208
result = sender.sendReceive(method) -> method variable
<mag:call xmlns:mag="urn:Magento" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:SOAP-XML="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<sessionId>9be685563680f52c1ab5375bec545dfe</sessionId>
<resourcePath>customer.create</resourcePath>
<args SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:ur-type[1]" xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array">
<item SOAP-ENC:arrayType="xsd:ur-type[1]" xsi:type="SOAP-ENC:Array">
<item xsi:type="SOAP-XML:Map">
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">email</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">MY EMAIL</value>
</item>
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">password_hash</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">4cb9c8a8048fd02294477fcb1a41191a</value>
</item>
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">group_id</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:int">1</value>
</item>
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">store_id</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:int">1</value>
</item>
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">lastname</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">LName</value>
</item>
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">firstname</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">Fname</value>
</item>
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">website_id</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:int">1</value>
</item>
</item>
</item>
</args>
</mag:call>
//magentosoapclient line 215
throw axisFault (axisfault -> message)
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
<faultcode>100</faultcode>
<faultstring>Customer email is required</faultstring>
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Answer 1

You'll need to trace/log the data on the Magento end of things. Somehow email's getting lost and/or munged in the process. The PHP code that's called for a customer creation is at
#File: app/code/core/Mage/Customer/Model/Customer/Api.php
public function create($customerData)
{
$customerData = $this->_prepareData($customerData);
try {
$customer = Mage::getModel('customer/customer')
->setData($customerData)
->save();
} catch (Mage_Core_Exception $e) {
$this->_fault('data_invalid', $e->getMessage());
}
return $customer->getId();
}
and the specific exception being sent back to your SOAP client is at
#File: app/code/core/Mage/Customer/Model/Resource/Customer.php
protected function _beforeSave(Varien_Object $customer)
{
parent::_beforeSave($customer);
if (!$customer->getEmail()) {
throw Mage::exception('Mage_Customer', Mage::helper('customer')->__('Customer email is required'));
}
There's something about your client call and/or the specific Magento system you're using that makes Magento think there's no customer email set. A few calls to Mage::Log should set you on the right path.