From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2007-06-06T22:49:10+09:00
Subject: Re: SOAP performance and unmarshalling/parsing speed

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Hi,

Sorry for the late response.

Micah Wedemeyer wrote:
> Unfortunately, the performance is fairly slow.  We have a SOAP web
> service running on the localhost, but it still takes about 4-5 seconds
> to get 150K of data.

Can you try soap4r-1.5.6? (it's now in RC stage and should be released
in a week).  You can download RC2 from
http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/wiki#a2007-06-05:1.5.6-RC2

For 1.5.6 last month, I did profile analysis especially on parsing large
SOAP response.  It should have better performance characteristics (CPU
and memory).

And would you please send me a sample client and a sample dumped SOAP
response if it's still slow.  I'll check where's the bottleneck.

> So, finally, my question: What would be the quickest and easiest (in
> terms of programming skill) of sending the SOAP call and getting the
> resulting XML, but bypassing the parsing/unmarshalling?  I think I can
> handle the parsing by hand.

sending:
  driver.call_my_method(REXML::Document.new("<param1>...</param1>"))

receiving:
  driver.return_response_as_xml = true
  xml = driver.call_my_method(...)
  doc = REXML::Document.new(xml)

These require soap4r-1.5.6 RC2+.

Regards,
// NaHi

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