From: Ben Myles <ben.myles@...>
Date: 2005-07-20T23:59:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with SOAP

Thanks so much! That's what I call community support - trying it out now :-)

Ben

On 7/20/05, NAKAMURA, Hiroshi <nakahiro@sarion.co.jp> wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> Ben Myles wrote:
> > I'm trying to write some code to connect to a SOAP webservice. I only
> > need to call one method: SendMessage (see
> > http://webservices.xpedite.com.au/xpeditemessaging/faxreach/1-0-0/faxreach.asmx?op=SendMessage).
> >
> > I've been reading PickAxe but it's pretty thin on this stuff. I've got
> > the outline of my code done, but am stuck on what arguments to send
> > the method call.
> >
> > result = soap.SendMessage(...)
> >
> > I realise I need to send the arguments along, but how do I send
> > complex datatypes (in the definition URL above you will see there are
> > destinations containing recipients etc.). Also, do I need to specify
> > every parameter or are some optional? Is it possible to query the web
> > service for this information in Ruby?
> 
> You should use WSDL file located at
> http://webservices.xpedite.com.au/xpeditemessaging/faxreach/1-0-0/faxreach.asmx?WSDL
> 
> At first, generate class definition from the WSDL as follows.
> 
>  % wsdl2ruby.rb --wsdl
> 'http://webservices.xpedite.com.au/xpeditemessaging/faxreach/1-0-0/faxreach.asmx?WSDL'
> - --type client --force
>  I, [2005-07-20T14:40:25.503516 #32113]  INFO -- app: Creating class
> definition.
>  W, [2005-07-20T14:40:25.504452 #32113]  WARN -- app: File 'default.rb'
> exists but overrides it.
>  F, [2005-07-20T14:40:25.570157 #32113] FATAL -- app: Detected an
> exception. Stopping ... undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass
> (NoMethodError)
> 
> Oops.  I found the bug and fixed it at subversion repository.  Please
> obtain the latest soap4r source from its subversion repository, or
> download the latest snapshot tarball from http://dev.ctor.org/download/
> 
> With the latest soap4r source, wsdl2ruby.rb should run fine and the
> following script should work.
> 
>   #!/usr/bin/env ruby
>   require 'defaultDriver.rb'
>   obj = FaxProcessorSoap.new
>   parameters = SendMessage.new(FaxMessage.new(...), 'NaHi', 'passwd')
>   puts obj.sendMessage(parameters)
> 
> class FaxMessage is very big.  Good luck with you and soap4r...
> 
> Regards,
> // NaHi
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