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So I need to access this service from my rails app. I'm using soap4r to read the WSDL and dynamically generate methods for accessing the service.

From what I've read, I should be able to chain methods to access the nested XML nodes, but I can't get it to work. I tried using the wsdl2ruby command and read through the generated code. From what I can tell, the soap library is not generating these accessor methods. I'm pretty new to ruby, so I don't know if I'm just missing something?

I know when I inspect the element, I can see the data I want. I just can't get to it.

For instance if I use the following code:

require "soap/wsdlDriver" wsdl = "http://frontdoor.ctn5.org/CablecastWS/CablecastWS.asmx?WSDL" driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver response = driver.getChannels('nill') puts response.inspect

I get the following output:

ignored element: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/}binding ignored element: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/}operation ignored element: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/}body ignored element: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/}address #<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80b96394 {http://www.trms.com/CablecastWS/}GetChannelsResult=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80b96178 {http://www.trms.com/CablecastWS/}Channel=[#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80b95f5c {http://www.trms.com/CablecastWS/}ChannelID="1" {http://www.trms.com/CablecastWS/}Name="CTN 5">, #<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80b9519c {http://www.trms.com/CablecastWS/}ChannelID="2" {http://www.trms.com/CablecastWS/}Name="PPAC 2">, #<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80b94620 {http://www.trms.com/CablecastWS/}ChannelID="14" {http://www.trms.com/CablecastWS/}Name="Test Channel">]>>

So the data is definitely there!

Here is the code generated by wsdl2ruby for the method being used above:

# {http://www.trms.com/CablecastWS/}GetChannels class GetChannels def initialize end end # {http://www.trms.com/CablecastWS/}GetChannelsResponse # getChannelsResult - ArrayOfChannel class GetChannelsResponse attr_accessor :getChannelsResult def initialize(getChannelsResult = nil) @getChannelsResult = getChannelsResult end end

Sorry for the long post, I figured the more info the more likely someone can point me in the right direction.

Thanks

-ray

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require "soap/wsdlDriver" wsdl = "http://frontdoor.ctn5.org/CablecastWS/CablecastWS.asmx?WSDL" driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver response = driver.getChannels('nill') for item in response.getChannelsResult.channel puts item.name puts item.channelID end

How I got the Answer

You can figure out the methods of response via 

response.methods

This will get you a long list of methods that are hard to sort through, so I like to subtract out the generic methods. Ruby lets you subtract arrays.

response.methods - Object.new.methods

Using this technique, I found the getChannelsResult method for response. I repeated the process

resonse.getChannelsResult.methods - Object.new.methods

I found the channel method for its result. Again!

response.getChannelsResult.channel.methods - Object.new.methods

This returned a bunch of methods including: sort, min, max etc. So I guessed Array. A simple confirmation was in order

response.getChannelsResult.channel.class

Sure enough it returned Array. To make life simple, I just worked with the first item of the array to get its methods

response.getChannelsResult.channel.first.methods - Object.new.methods

Whoalla, I found two more methods "name" and "channelID"

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Thanks!! I actually figured out that I was missing the channel method late last night, but your explanation is very helpful for figuring stuff out in ruby. Thanks again.

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