From: jm <jm@...>
Date: 2004-06-28T14:48:59+09:00
Subject: does soap have problems with structs?

The following code (testsrv.rb and testclt.rb) generates

/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/registry.rb:375:in `_obj2soap': 
Cannot map  to SOAP/OM. (SOAP::Mapping::MappingError)
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/registry.rb:315:in 
`obj2soap'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/mapping.rb:105:in 
`_obj2soap'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/mapping.rb:36:in 
`obj2soap'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/router.rb:109:in 
`create_response'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/router.rb:135:in 
`dispatch'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/router.rb:61:in `route'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/soaplet.rb:75:in `do_POST'
         from 
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpservlet/abstract.rb:35:in 
`__send__'
          ... 12 levels...
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/mapping.rb:81:in 
`fault2exception'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/driver.rb:195:in `call'
         from (eval):2:in `a_method'
         from ./testclt.rb:17

yet if the Structs are replaced by Hashs this works. A local call works 
in both cases. Is this a known problem with soap or is it something to 
do with my code?

J.

-- in testsrv.rb
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require 'webrick'
require 'soap/rpc/soaplet'


class Testsrv
   @@test_struct = Struct.new(:one,:two)
   def a_method
     @@test_struct.new("string",1)
   end
end

t = Testsrv.new()
s = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(
   :Port => 2000,
   :Logger => WEBrick::Log::new($stderr, WEBrick::Log::DEBUG)
)

srv = SOAP::RPC::SOAPlet.new()
srv.add_servant(t, "urn:t")
s.mount("/soap", srv)
trap("INT"){s.shutdown}
s.start

-- in  testclt.rb

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

require 'soap/rpc/driver'

class Testclient < SOAP::RPC::Driver
   @@server_default = "http://127.0.0.1:2000/soap/"
   @@namespace_default = "urn:t"

   def initialize(server=nil,namespace=nil)
     super(server || @@server_default,
           namespace || @@namespace_default)
     add_method("a_method")
   end
end

tc = Testclient.new()
p tc.a_method