From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2003-05-26T09:58:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Web Services and Ruby

Hi,

> From: gabriele renzi [mailto:surrender_it@rc1.vip.lng.yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 10:29 AM

>  this try is on winXP, PragP�rog's ruby 1.6.8,
> but I don't know the version of soap4r..

Maybe 1.4.8.1, the newest release.
Sorry for your inconvenience.

> WSDL::WSDLParser::UnknownElementError: Unknown
> element{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/}documentation.
> 
>         from
> C:/Programmi/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/wsdl/parser.rb:166:in
> `decodeTag'

wsdl4r should ignore documentation elements.

> >Current soap4r CVS version requires the latest version of
> >http-access2 which is only on CVS.  I'll release the new
> >versions at the same time.
> 
> I think I asked this once, but repetita iuvant:

I didn't have enough time to read ruby-talk/comp.lang.ruby
messages in a few months.  Sorry for not responding about it.

> what http-access does?

There's little advantage about functionality.

* http-access2 handles HTTP/1.1 persistent connection to a
  site instead of you.
* MT-safe (I hope :-)
* streaming POST through IO.

You can implement above functions with net/http easilly.

The reason I don't use net/http is;
* I already had my implementation before net/http.
* I want to keep controllable/readable implementation for
  my testing platform.  I once read and tried to hack
  net/* but I couldn't.

As a HTTP testing platform, I use WEBrick as a server side
and http-access2 as a client side.

> Why soap4r can't use net/http?
> (just trying to understand :) 

For my omission.  I must write the new streamHandler.rb
with net/http some day, but the SOAP client which use this
will be MT-unsafe (It's not a serious problem; Users
instanciate SOAP client per thread).

Regards,
// NaHi