From: Andrew Tongen <ajtongen@...>
Date: 2006-10-28T01:43:07+09:00
Subject: adding soap element attributes

Hi,

I have a question that I hope will be simple for someone to answer.

I am using soap4r to write a simple library to consume web services from 
an application.  The application does not include a WSDL document, so I 
have to write everything by hand.

The application requires attributes in certain elements of the soap 
request, and I am having a little trouble figuring out how to do this. 
So far, a portion of my test code looks like this:

driver = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new(endpoint, 'urn:namespace')
driver.add_method_as('get_account', 'GetAccountRequest', 'account')
get_account = driver.get_account('user@example.com')

which produces this:

<n2:GetAccountRequest xmlns:n2="urn:namespace"
       env:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
  <account xsi:type="xsd:string">user@example.com</account>
</n2:GetAccountRequest>

but I need the soap request to look like this:

<n2:GetAccountRequest xmlns:n2="urn:namespace"
       env:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
  <account by="name" xsi:type="xsd:string">user@example.com</account>
</n2:GetAccountRequest>

with the by="name" attribute in the account element.

I've been experimenting with SOAP::Mapping::Registry to achieve this, 
but I am not sure how it would be done, or even if this is the correct 
approach to take.  If anyone can offer any assistance, it would be 
appreciated.

Thanks,
Andrew

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