From: Ben Myles <ben.myles@...>
Date: 2005-09-08T11:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: soap4r and ASP.NET problems

I had some problems with soap4r and asp.net too. Try the latest
snapshot: http://dev.ctor.org/download/soap4r-20050722.tar.gz

On 9/8/05, Pete Elmore <pete@petta-tech.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having some difficulty getting Ruby to be able to successfully talk
> to an ASP.NET application.  (The answer to this question may be totally
> obvious to someone familiar with XML, SOAP, etc.; sorry if my question
> is a bit naive.)  I was hoping someone might be able to help.
> 
> I'm getting a SOAP::FaultError trying to send a simple request to the
> ASP.NET application.  My test code looks like this:
> 
> require 'soap/rpc/driver'
> sd = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new serv_url, namespace
> sd.add_method_with_soapaction_as('get_venues', 'GetVenues',
>         'http://tickettechnology/GetVenues", 'UserName', 'Password',
>         'DomainName', 'bVerbose')
> sd.default_encodingstyle =
>         SOAP::EncodingStyle::ASPDotNetHandler::Namespace
> sd.generate_explicit_type = false
> sd.get_venues username, password, domain_name, false
> 
> which yields:
> SOAP::FaultError: Server was unable to process request. --> Validating
> User Name: the submitted user name contains forbidden characters: null
> string
> 
> The data the server expects looks like this:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
>    <soap:Body>
>      <GetVenues xmlns="http://tickettechnology/">
>        <UserName>string</UserName>
>        <Password>string</Password>
>        <DomainName>string</DomainName>
>        <bVerbose>boolean</bVerbose>
>      </GetVenues>
>    </soap:Body>
> </soap:Envelope>
> 
> But my code is generating this:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
>      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
>    <env:Body>
>      <n1:GetVenues xmlns:n1="http://tickettechnology/">
>        <UserName>username</UserName>
>        <Password>password</Password>
>        <DomainName>domainname</DomainName>
>        <bVerbose>false</bVerbose>
>      </n1:GetVenues>
>    </env:Body>
> </env:Envelope>
> 
> (Of course, I cut out the actual username and password.)
> 
> It looked to me as if it was not finding the username string, since it
> was definitely not null.  Having very little knowledge of XML/SOAP, my
> guess was that the problem was the 'n1:' bit, and so I spent the better
> part of today trying to figure out how to get rid of it, with no
> success.  Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pete
> 
>