From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-03-04T02:43:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Variable number of parameters on SOAP call?

On 03.03.2009 18:26, John Allen wrote:
> Is there a way to specify a variable number of parameters on a SOAP
> call?
> Example:  Ruby client that is trying to call a Perl SOAP server:
> 
> dvr = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new("http://samplehost.com:1234", "urn:Test")
> dvr.add_method('vartest','user','passwd','opts')
> 
> 'opts' can be a  variable number of options, so its expecting one or
> more options to show up.  If I pass it something like:
> 
> tt = ["test1","test2","test3"]
> dvr.vartest("user","pass",tt)
> 
> the perl SOAP client gets a one element array of an array....not just a
> single array.  IE> p[0][0] => "test1", p[0][1] => "test2" p[0][2] =>
> "test3" ..what its expecting is p[0] => "test1", p[1] => "test2", p[2]
> => "test3". This works fine from my perl SOAP client.
> 
> Is there a standard way to set up a SOAP function to accept a variable
> number of parameters??  I can't find anything about it.
> Thanks all:)

Did you try the splat operator?

dvr.vartest("user", "pass", *tt)
                             ^

Kind regards

	robert