From: Dan Fitzpatrick <dan@...>
Date: 2006-03-15T07:33:50+09:00
Subject: [SOAP] Setting the namespace of an object

I posted this to the soap mailing list but have not received any input. 
Hopefully someone here knows the answer.

I am wondering how to change the namespace (xmlns) on the SetResponse 
element from "http://www.ruby-lang.org/xmlns/ruby/type/custom" to a 
different namespace using soap4r.

The following code produces the soap message below.

require 'soap/mapping'
require 'soap/processor'

class SetResult
  attr_accessor :timestamp
  attr_accessor :errorCode
  attr_accessor :message
  attr_accessor :id
  attr_accessor :version
end

class SetResponse
  attr_accessor :SetResult
end

response_object = SetResponse.new
result = SetResult.new
result.id = 1
result.version = 2
result.errorCode = 0
result.message = 'Update Successful'
result.timestamp =  Time.new.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S')
response_object.SetResult = result

soap_header = SOAP::SOAPHeader.new
elename = SOAP::Mapping.name2elename('SetResponse')
mapping_registry = SOAP::Mapping::Registry.new(:allow_original_mapping 
=> false)
soap_obj = SOAP::Mapping.obj2soap(response_object, mapping_registry)
body = SOAP::SOAPBody.new
body.add(elename, soap_obj)
soap = SOAP::SOAPEnvelope.new(soap_header, body)
puts SOAP::Processor.marshal(soap, {}, nil)

Returns:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii" ?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <env:Body>
    <SetResponse xmlns:n1="http://www.ruby-lang.org/xmlns/ruby/type/custom"
        xsi:type="n1:SetResponse"
        env:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
      <SetResult xsi:type="n1:SetResult">
        <timestamp xsi:type="xsd:string">2006-03-09T02:25:56</timestamp>
        <id xsi:type="xsd:int">1</id>
        <version xsi:type="xsd:int">2</version>
        <message xsi:type="xsd:string">Update Successful</message>
        <errorCode xsi:type="xsd:int">0</errorCode>
      </SetResult>
    </SetResponse>
  </env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

I need to change:

  <SetResponse 
xmlns:n1="http://www.ruby-lang.org/xmlns/ruby/type/custom" ...

to for example:

  <SetResponse xmlns="http://example.com/company" ...

I also do not need the xsi:type in the soap message either. How do you 
hide those attributes?

Thanks,

Dan