From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2007-06-06T23:23:57+09:00
Subject: Re: VMWare WSDL Client?

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Hi,

Sorry for the late response.

Austin Ziegler wrote:
>> Hmmm - I've got lots of experience with LDAP :-)  But thanks for the
>> pointer - should you ever decide to give it a shot with Ruby, I'd be
>> very interested in hearing how it goes... Out of curiosity, do you
>> think it would be possible to edit vim.wsdl file to limit it to
>> certain basic inventory functions?
> 
> The vast majority of the WSDL (it's pretty large at 900k) is the data
> structure declarations, not the method calls. It's also polymorphic
> depending on xsd:anyType; I don't know how well SOAP4R handles that (I
> haven't tried, yet).
> 
> So no, editing it won't help.

soap4r-1.5.6 might be able to handle that.  At least wsdl2ruby.rb can
parse the definition...

> 0% time wsdl2ruby.rb --wsdl ../vimService.wsdl --type client
> I, [2007-06-06T23:16:44.122325 #7343]  INFO -- app: Creating class definition.
> I, [2007-06-06T23:16:44.123911 #7343]  INFO -- app: Creates file 'default.rb'.
> I, [2007-06-06T23:16:48.348865 #7343]  INFO -- app: Creating mapping registry definition.
> I, [2007-06-06T23:16:48.350345 #7343]  INFO -- app: Creates file 'defaultMappingRegistry.rb'.
> I, [2007-06-06T23:16:56.941461 #7343]  INFO -- app: Creating driver.
> I, [2007-06-06T23:16:56.942492 #7343]  INFO -- app: Creates file 'defaultDriver.rb'.
> I, [2007-06-06T23:16:58.957728 #7343]  INFO -- app: Creating client skelton.
> I, [2007-06-06T23:16:58.958699 #7343]  INFO -- app: Creates file 'VimServiceClient.rb'.
> I, [2007-06-06T23:17:00.725305 #7343]  INFO -- app: End of app. (status: 0)
> wsdl2ruby.rb --wsdl ../vimService.wsdl --type client  12.89s user 3.97s system 82% cpu 20.335 total
> 0% ls -l
> total 2368
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nahi nahi  112947 Jun  6 23:17 VimServiceClient.rb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nahi nahi  760335 Jun  6 23:16 default.rb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nahi nahi  180123 Jun  6 23:16 defaultDriver.rb
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nahi nahi 1323481 Jun  6 23:16 defaultMappingRegistry.rb
> 0% ruby -rdefaultDriver -e 'VimPortType.new.retrieveServiceContent(RetrieveServiceContent.new(ManagedObjectReference.new("Serviceinstance")))'
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:1523:in `initialize': Connection refused - connect(2) (localhost, #443) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:1523:in `new'
[snip]

I've not yet call the method actually (see above; connection refused),
it may work.  Can someone try it?

Regards,
// NaHi

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