Rails - Dec 2005 - AWS api_method :returns not accepting ActiveRecord::Base

I''m trying to use the feature of AWS where it will take an object
derived
from ActiveRecord::Base instead of an AWS::Struct object.  Whenever I try
it, though, I get the craziest error:

NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
The error occured while evaluating nil.new
    /usr/lib/.../actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/casting.rb:105:in
`cast_to_structured_type''
[...]

The reason why there''s a nil object instead of a type class object is
because something tried to create a StructuredType of Exception, which
(strangely!) doesn''t actually work.

Changing my type to any of the internals or to a class derived from
AWS::Struct causes the problem to disappear.

I know I''m a bit short on details, but the full test case is fairly
simple
to construct -- create an ActiveRecord model, create a basic AWS API, and
try to make the API method return the model.  If it''s unclear,
I''ll whip up
a sample example to demonstrate the problem as I see it, but it probably
won''t be of a form suitable for inclusion in the test suite, so
it''s
probably better if people who know about such things build the acceptance
test.

- Matt

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		-- steve, ASR

Has anyone found a solution to this?  I''m running into the same
problem.

Matthew Palmer wrote:
> I''m trying to use the feature of AWS where it will take an object 
> derived
> from ActiveRecord::Base instead of an AWS::Struct object.  Whenever I 
> try
> it, though, I get the craziest error:
> 
> NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
> The error occured while evaluating nil.new
>     /usr/lib/.../actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/casting.rb:105:in 
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Are you using the latest version?

On 5/12/06, Chris Goodwin <chris.goodwin@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Has anyone found a solution to this?  I''m running into the same
problem.
>
> Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > I''m trying to use the feature of AWS where it will take an
object
> > derived
> > from ActiveRecord::Base instead of an AWS::Struct object.  Whenever I
> > try
> > it, though, I get the craziest error:
> >
> > NoMethodError: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect
it!
> > The error occured while evaluating nil.new
> >    
/usr/lib/.../actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/casting.rb:105:in
>
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I''m running Rails 1.1.2.  AWS = 1.1.2.  Ruby 1.8.4.  The actual error 
I''m getting appears to be thrown when ActiveRecord is looking up the 
table definition information after the SOAP call has been made.  Here''s
the stacktrace:

NoMethodError (You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.[]=):
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1889:in
`write_attribute''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1380:in
`id=''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/mapping.rb:298:in
`set_attributes''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/mapping.rb:294:in
`set_attributes''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/factory.rb:75:in `setiv2struct''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/factory.rb:35:in `setiv2obj''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/rubytypeFactory.rb:442:in 
`unknownstruct2obj''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/rubytypeFactory.rb:405:in 
`unknowntype2obj''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/rubytypeFactory.rb:251:in 
`soap2obj''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/registry.rb:479:in `_soap2obj''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/registry.rb:428:in `soap2obj''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/mapping.rb:146:in `_soap2obj''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/mapping.rb:143:in `_soap2obj''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/mapping.rb:59:in `soap2obj''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/mapping.rb:360:in 
`protect_threadvars''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/mapping/mapping.rb:55:in `soap2obj''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol/marshaler.rb:31:in
`soap_to_ruby''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol.rb:61:in
`decode_request''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in 
`collect''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/baseData.rb:475:in `each''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol.rb:61:in
`decode_request''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol.rb:45:in
`decode_action_pack_request''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/discovery.rb:20:in
`discover_web_service_request''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/discovery.rb:18:in
`discover_web_service_request''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/dispatcher/action_controller_dispatcher.rb:44:in
`dispatch_web_service_request''
    (eval):1:in `api''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/base.rb:910:in
`perform_action_without_filters''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:368:in
`perform_action_without_benchmark''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in
`perform_action_without_rescue''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in
`perform_action_without_rescue''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:82:in
`perform_action''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/base.rb:381:in
`process_without_filters''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:377:in
`process_without_session_management_support''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in
`process''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in 
`dispatch''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:115:in 
`handle_dispatch''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:81:in 
`service''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in `service''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in `run''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start_thread''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in `start''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `start''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in `start''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in `start''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:67:in 
`dispatch''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:59
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in 
`require''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
`require''
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/commands/server.rb:30
    c:/ruby/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in 
`require''
   
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
`require''
    script/server:3


Kent Sibilev wrote:
> Are you using the latest version?
> 
> On 5/12/06, Chris Goodwin <chris.goodwin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The error occured while evaluating nil.new
>> >    
/usr/lib/.../actionwebservice/lib/action_web_service/casting.rb:105:in
>>
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Chris,

Can you post a code that triggers this exception? It seems that for some
reason your model class is not registered with soup4r mapping.

On 5/15/06, Chris Goodwin <chris.goodwin@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I''m running Rails 1.1.2.  AWS = 1.1.2.  Ruby 1.8.4.  The actual
error
> I''m getting appears to be thrown when ActiveRecord is looking up
the
> table definition information after the SOAP call has been made. 
Here''s
> the stacktrace:
>
> NoMethodError (You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
> You might have expected an instance of Array.
> The error occured while evaluating nil.[]=):
>
>

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Sure.  Note that the code is blowing up before the first line of 
update_test(company) is executed...the logger statement in the first 
line never gets logged, which suggest that it''s in the marshalling
code.
The find_by_id method works and returns the object to the calling code, 
so it seems to only be a problem with the calling code is sending an 
ActiveRecord object.

Also, I tracked down the line in ActiveRecord/base.rb (line 1892) that 
is causing the error, and apparently @attributes is equal to 
nil....which is a problem.  It looks like something in the marshalling 
process is supposed to create an instance of @attributes and it''s not 
happening.

The application that calls the service is a C# application.  The 
back-end database is SQL Server, and all of this is running on Windows 
XP with ruby 1.82.

Thanks for the help.

ServiceController:

class CompanyServiceController < ApplicationController
  class_inheritable_option :allow_active_record_expects, true
  wsdl_service_name ''CompanyService''
  def find_by_id(id)
    Company.find(:all, :conditions => [''id = ?'', id])
  end

  def update_test(company)
    logger.info("test: this line is never displayed")
    @company = Company.find(company.id)
    @company.update_attributes(company)
  end
end

API definition:

class CompanyServiceApi < ActionWebService::API::Base
  class_inheritable_option :allow_active_record_expects, true
  api_method :find_by_id, :expects => [:int], :returns => [[Company]]
  api_method :update_test, :expects => [Company]
end

Model definition:

class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
  set_table_name "tCompany"
  belongs_to :enterprise
end


Kent Sibilev wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> Can you post a code that triggers this exception? It seems that for some
> reason your model class is not registered with soup4r mapping.

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