From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2003-03-01T10:54:26+09:00
Subject: Re: XmlConfigFile usage

Hi,

Here's SOAP!  Is there somebody listening?!

> From: "why the lucky stiff" <ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net>
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 1:40 AM

> Note that the array in the below XML-RPC call would look like so in YAML:
>
>   - Name: Joe Bloggs
>     Address: 1 Disk Drive
>
> The RPC call itself is expressed by YAML.rb's RPC protocol like so:
>
>   --- !okay/rpc
>   addcust:
>     - Name: Joe Bloggs
>       Address: 1 Disk Drive

> > And here is the version which XML RPC would give:
> >
> > irb(main):002:0> require 'xmlrpc/marshal'
> > true
> > irb(main):003:0> XMLRPC::Marshal.dump_call('addcust',[{"Name"=>"Joe
> > Bloggs","Address"=>"1 Disk Drive"}])
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> > <methodCall>
> >  <methodName>addcust</methodName>
> >  <params>
> >   <param>
> >    <value>
> >     <array>
> >      <data>
> >       <value>
> >        <struct>
> >         <member>
> >          <name>Name</name>
> >          <value>
> >           <string>Joe Bloggs</string>
> >          </value>
> >         </member>
> >         <member>
> >          <name>Address</name>
> >          <value>
> >           <string>1 Disk Drive</string>
> >          </value>
> >         </member>
> >        </struct>
> >       </value>
> >      </data>
> >     </array>
> >    </value>
> >   </param>
> >  </params>
> > </methodCall>

$ ruby -rsoap/marshal -e 'puts SOAPMarshal.dump({"Name"=>"Joe Bloggs", "Address"=>"1 Disk Drive"})'
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<env:Body>
<Hash xmlns:n1="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:n2="http://xml.apache.org/xml-soap" xsi:type="n2:Map"
env:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">Name</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">Joe Bloggs</value>
</item>
<item>
<key xsi:type="xsd:string">Address</key>
<value xsi:type="xsd:string">1 Disk Drive</value>
</item>
</Hash>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

Ugly?  Indented by hand.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<env:Envelope ...>
  <env:Body>
    <Hash ...>
      <item>
        <key xsi:type="xsd:string">Name</key>
        <value xsi:type="xsd:string">Joe Bloggs</value>
      </item>
      <item>
        <key xsi:type="xsd:string">Address</key>
        <value xsi:type="xsd:string">1 Disk Drive</value>
      </item>
    </Hash>
  </env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

In Hash, key might be an object so <Key>value</Key> and
<item key="...">value</item> are not enough for general usage.
(I agree these are enough for configfile.)

Regards,
// NaHi