From: Scott Rubin <srubin@...>
Date: 2004-07-13T22:57:23+09:00
Subject: Re: problem with soap4r

Ernie wrote:
> I'm trying to write a client that fetches a  weather forecast using soap4R.
> 
> require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
> weather = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(
>    "http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/DWMLgen/wsdl/ndfdXML.wsdl"
> ).create_driver
> 
> This works ok and weather is created.
> 
> My problem is how do I enter the parameters for the function call
> the parameters are:
> <part name="latitude" type="xsd:decimal" />
>   <part name="longitude" type="xsd:decimal" />
>   <part name="product" type="typens:productType" />
>   <part name="startTime" type="xsd:dateTime" />
>   <part name="endTime" type="xsd:dateTime" />
>    <part name="weatherParameters" type="typens:weatherParametersType" />
> 
>    The weatherParameters variable is an array of booleans eg. maxt, mint,
> others
> 
> 
> sReceived=NDFDgen("What goes here"........)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Ernie
> 
> 

I started making a client for that service in Python.  The only tricky 
part is the array of booleans.  If my thinking is correct, a hashmap 
will work there.  So do something like this.


....
lattitude = 15.0
longitude = 15.0
product = "glance"
startTime = "The time format they use, I forget"
endTime = "The same"
weatherParameters = { 'maxt' => true, 'mint' => false, .... }

Response = NDFDgen( lattitude, longitude, product, startTime, endTime, 
weatherParameters )

If my thinking is correct this will work. If it doesn't, then the 
hashmap might not be correct. You may have to manually create a SOAP 
structure for the weather parameters.  Let me know how it goes. The real 
  trouble you will have is writing a parser for the response, it is in a 
very ugly format.