From: Philipp <philipp.goetzinger@...>
Date: 2007-08-28T19:30:07+09:00
Subject: transfer (own)ruby object over SOAP

Hello everyone,
after 2 days searching the web for a solution i get stuck.

I have a rails APP with a SOAP interface and a simply ruby client
e.g
I have a object CAR that has a name and 4 DOORS

CAR <-1:N-> DOOR

//structure looks something like this
class car {
id
name
}

class door{
id
car_id
}


now i want to transfer a instance of the object car over soap to the
client.
SOAP only supports , primary class types like string, int, float and
so on..right ?

now i was thinking about to do it with yaml or marshal, or xml i tried
it the last 2 days but it dint work

# on the rails app i did
 config_dump = SOAP::Marshal.dump(cars)

# i did the transfer as a sting over soap

#on client side id did
cars_array = SOAP::Marshal.load(cars_marshal)

but now i have a stange SOAP::Mapping::Object  on the client side, is
there a way to get a normal ruby object in this case CAR-object that i
can do for example

car.doors.each{|door|
puts door
}


thanks ahead


regard
Philipp
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