comp.lang.ruby

Roland Schmitt

1/25/2006 3:53:00 PM

Hi,

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org
> [mailto:ruby-talk-admin@ruby-lang.org] Im Auftrag von Ben Moxon
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 16:36
> An: ruby-talk ML
> Betreff: Generating a WSDL descriptor for my SOAP service
>
> I'm a bit new here, so I apologise if this question is
> something that you have covered a thousand times before, but
> I'm having a very troublesome time working out whether I need
> to create a WSDL file if I'm using the standard soap library
> or whether there is a way to get my service to generate it
> for me? If not, do any of the other Ruby web service
> frameworks offer this? I have found a lot of talk about
> generating Ruby scripts from WSDL files but I haven't been
> able to find anything solid about doing the reverse and
> unfortunately the SOAP classes aren't very heavily documented
> so it's sometimes a bit tricky to trace through them and work
> out what they are doing.
>
> I realise that the whole thing about Ruby being dynamically
> everything means that it doesn't need to behave in the same
> way as a strongly typed language, but from what I can tell
> offering WSDL will make it a lot easier for people using a
> strongly typed language to talk to the service, which would
> make it a lot easier for the service to be marketable...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -ben
>

actually soap4r can not generate WSDL.

Perhaps ActionWebService is what you are looking for
http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/re...
It generates WSDL from api definitions.

Regards,
Roland