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adding soap element attributes

Andrew Tongen

10/27/2006 4:43:00 PM

Hi,

I have a question that I hope will be simple for someone to answer.

I am using soap4r to write a simple library to consume web services from
an application. The application does not include a WSDL document, so I
have to write everything by hand.

The application requires attributes in certain elements of the soap
request, and I am having a little trouble figuring out how to do this.
So far, a portion of my test code looks like this:

driver = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new(endpoint, 'urn:namespace')
driver.add_method_as('get_account', 'GetAccountRequest', 'account')
get_account = driver.get_account('user@example.com')

which produces this:

<n2:GetAccountRequest xmlns:n2="urn:namespace"
env:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/...
<account xsi:type="xsd:string">user@example.com</account>
</n2:GetAccountRequest>

but I need the soap request to look like this:

<n2:GetAccountRequest xmlns:n2="urn:namespace"
env:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/...
<account by="name" xsi:type="xsd:string">user@example.com</account>
</n2:GetAccountRequest>

with the by="name" attribute in the account element.

I've been experimenting with SOAP::Mapping::Registry to achieve this,
but I am not sure how it would be done, or even if this is the correct
approach to take. If anyone can offer any assistance, it would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew

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1 Answer

Andrew Tongen

10/31/2006 4:36:00 PM

0

Thanks Hiroshi, that got me started. Soap4r is great, I just wish this
app had a WSDL!

I may consider writing a WSDL for this application, but for now I only
need a subset of fucntionality. The request objects are all pretty
simple, but I am having trouble accessing data from the response
objects.

After calling:

get_account = driver.get_account('user@example.com')

The raw XML response for this command looks something like this:

<GetAccountResponse xmlns:ns0="urn:namespace">
<account name="user@example.com"
id="770316d9-qwe4-38eu-s84h-2dfe3c6cc874">
<a n="key1">value1</a>
<a n="key2">value2</a>
<a n="key3">value3</a>
...
</account>
</GetAccountResponse>

I need to access the key/value pairs in the a attributes, but
get_account.account.a simply returns an array of [value1, value2,
value3, ...] and seems to ignore the attributes. Many response objects
for this app take this form, so it would be nice to be able to create a
hash, or ruby object dynamically based on the key/values.

Can I access the raw response XML somehow, or is there a better way to
do this?

The app I am using is Zimbra, in case anyone has any experience or
advice for use with Soap4r.

Thanks again,
Andrew


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