From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2004-03-18T11:18:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Using Hash parameters in SOAP calls

Hi,

> From: "Christian Pekeler" <christian@pekeler.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 1:54 AM

> I can't seem to figure out how to pass a Hash to a webservice
> function. This is what I'm doing:
> 
> require "soap/wsdlDriver"
> wsdl = "http://localhost:8888/cgi-bin/WebObjects/Interview.woa/ws/WebServices?wsdl"
> factory = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl)
> @driver = factory.createDriver
> 
> @driver.someWebserviceFunctionWithStringAndNumber("blah", 55)
> @driver.someWebserviceFunctionWithHash({"key1" => "value1", "key2" =>
> "value2"})
> 
> someWebserviceFunctionWithStringAndNumber works fine,
> someWebserviceFunctionWithHash throws up with
[snip]

It's a bug of SOAP4R.  Serializing Hash (aka ApacheMap in
SOAP world) using WSDL fails.  Thank you for finding it.

I'll look into this and fix.  For workaround, it might work.

  require "soap/wsdlDriver"
  wsdl = "..."
  driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_driver
  driver.someWebserviceFunctionWithStringAndNumber("blah", 55)

  backup = driver.wsdl_mapping_registry
  driver.wsdl_mapping_registry = SOAP::Mapping::DefaultRegistry
  driver.someWebserviceFunctionWithHash({"key1" => "value1", "key2" => "value2"})
  driver.wsdl_mapping_registry = backup

  (calling other methods...)

MappingRegistry generated from WSDL does not support ApacheMap
even if the WSDL includes ApacheMap definition for now.
So I use default MappingRegistry here.

With default MappingRegistry, driver cannot understand user defined
types in WSDL so it could not work...  For example, it will crash if
resulting value of someWebserviceFunctionWithHash includes
user defined type in WSDL.

Regards,
// NaHi