From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2003-11-28T18:59:02+09:00
Subject: Re: soap4r: storing wiredump XMLs to a string

Hi,

> From: <SchmittR@t-systems.com>
> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 5:22 PM

> I will make a little clearer what i want to do.
> In the apache axis soap package as well as in the MS .NET framework is
> it possible to install so called "custom soap handlers". Such objects
> are called when a soap call is made and it is possible to perform
> addition work on the soap xml document in the handler class. A small
> example: my soap client calls a web service. Without a so called
> handler, the call is performed as normal. With the handler, to the
> outgoing soap xml document is added an xml element with the ruby
> version. So, on the server side i can count how much clients work
> with ruby 1.6 or 1.8.

Thank you for well baked explanation.  Perhaps I now understand your
request.  You want to edit SOAPHeader part of XML, after/before your
client/server processes SOAPBody part, right?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <env:Header>

    <!-- add/check this element?? -->
    <n1:ruby_info>
      <version>1.8.1</version>
      <release_date>2003-11-8</release_date>
    </n1:ruby_info>

  </env:Header>
  <env:Body>
    <n2:some_request .../>
  </env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

I'm afraid I must say "not yet supported..."

> Sounds strange? Possible...

Not strange.  Fair enough.  In the current developping code in my
workspace (not yet commited), there are headerHandler implementations
named lib/soap/header/handler.rb or so.  Still halfway.  I'll back
to the development after 1.8.1-preview3 release...

Regards,
// NaHi