Rails - Jan 2006 - Problem with publishing subclasses by AWS API specification

Hi,

I''m quite new to Rails and have a problem with the use of AWS.

The Problem is, that I have a class which provides some basic attributes 
and some subclasses of this with more specific attributes. I want to 
send objects of those classes through SOAP by a remote client, but if I 
specify just the base class in the method signature of my API definition 
the generated WSDL file will just include the attributes of the base 
class.

Is there any way to change this behavior? Because it is possible. The 
Apache AXIS tools for example will generate a WSDL containing the class 
inheritance so that remote callers are aware of this feature.

Thanks for your help.

Dirk

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Here is an example of what I mean for better illustration:

class Shape < ActionWebService::Struct
  member :color, :string
end

class Square < Shape
  member :length, :int
end

class Circle < Shape
  member :radius, :int
end

class Rectangle < Square
  member :height, :int
end


class ShapeApi < ActionWebService::API::Base
  api_method :store_shape,
             :expects => [Shape]
end


WSDL:

...
<xsd:complexType name="Shape">
  <xsd:all>
    <xsd:element name="color_id" type="xsd:string"/>
  </xsd:all>
</xsd:complexType>
...

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