From: Kishore <keyshawn@...>
Date: 2005-12-22T03:42:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby SOAP client communication with Microsoft .NET webservice

Hi Kero:

Thanks for getting back to me. I got it to work after reading through
some of nahi's emails (thanks to him). The steps I followed were as
follows:

1. Download soap4r from SVN.
svn co http://dev.ctor.org/svn/soap4r/trunk/bin soap4r

This will result in two files being downloaded - wsdl2ruby.rb and
xsd2ruby.rb. The one I used was the wsdl2ruby.rb.

2. Generate sample SOAP client file

ruby wsdl2ruby.rb --wsdl http://location_of_WSDL --type client

This will result in the creation of three files - default.rb,
defaultDriver.rb and WSClient.rb. The sample client file is
WSClient.rb. Inside this file, I found all the remote methods and "nil"
arguments being passed to them. For e.g., I had a remote method defined
as follows in my web-service:

string observe (string req_id, string[] names, string[] values);

The second and third argument for this file were vectors of strings.

In the ruby client file, this method was exposed as follows:

obj = WSSoap.new(nil)

parameters = nil
puts obj.observe(parameters)

So, even though my remote method should have three arguments, here
there is only one. According to nahi's email, I needed to construct a
hash table and pass that as the single argument.

3. Pass actual arguments.
name = ['CENTER', 'SPAN', 'SCALE', 'YREF', 'INTERVAL']
val = ['5.18 GHz', '2.95 MHz', '4.00', '-68.70', '30000']
parameters = {
        'req_id' => '1',
        'names' => {:string => name},
        'values' => {:string => val}
}
result = obj.observe(parameters)
puts result.inspect

Hope that helps,
Kishore

Kero wrote:
> > Thanks a lot. That worked out. Would you know how to pass an array of
> > strings as argument? I am trying to the following:
> >
> > Request = Struct.new(:request_id, :names, :values)
> > result = soap_client.stopGenerate(Request.new("1", ["POWER", "FREQ"],
> > ["-15", "5.18GHz"]))
>
> I have something like
>   Request = Struct.new(...)
>   Names = Struct.new(...)
>   Request.new(1, Names.new(["power", "freq"], Values.new([...])
>
> i.e. the arrays wrapped in their own structs.
>
> However, I needed different soap requests; I got to it after a *detailed*
> look (yuck) at the wsdl, I suppose yours might look different. YMMV.
>
> And here my experience ends. I got working what I needed, then stopped
> looking.
> 
> Bye,
> Kero.