Using a DB is a natural thing for a Rails developer. Since Rails is a database driven application framework, that does not come as a big surprise. But there are times where environmental constraints do not allow the freedom to use the weapon of choice… Imagine a legacy Java SOA landscape that provides tons of […]
This documentation is deprecated, please have a look at “savonrb.com”:http://savonrb.com/! p. Looking into “The Ruby Toolbox”:http://ruby-toolbox.com/ there are currently two popular “SOAP client libraries”:http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/soap.html available. In this short article I am going to crunch the candidates “Savon”:http://github.com/rubiii/savon, which is currently the most “popular” library, and “Handsoap”:http://github.com/unwire/handsoap/ which follows short after. Both are open source projects […]
This documentation is deprecated, please have a look at “savonrb.com”:http://savonrb.com/! p. The two libraries have different approaches on how to get things done. While Handsoap is using an oldschool inheritance style definition: class HandsoapBankCode < Handsoap::Service endpoint :uri => “some_wsdl”, :version => 2 def on_create_document(doc) doc.alias “tns”, “some_namespace” end def on_response_document(doc) doc.add_namespace “ns1”, “some_namespace” end […]
This documentation is deprecated, please have a look at “savonrb.com”:http://savonrb.com/! p. Both clients provide an interface to work with a WSDL. While the Handsoap WSDL support is hidden in some helper class, WSDLs are a first class citizen in Savon. The code for printing out the available SOAP actions looks like this: require “handsoap/parser” wsdl […]
This documentation is deprecated, please have a look at “savonrb.com”:http://savonrb.com/! p. The libraries provide support for multiple authentication protocols. While Handsoap’s authentication support is more low level, Savon provides an API for that task. h2. WSSE authentication p. As you might expect, the Handsoap way for this aspect is to implement a callback method for […]