Rails - Jun 2006 - AWS Client - There has to be a better way

I''m working on building a SOAP client with AWS, i.e:

class PersonAPI < ActionWebService::API::Base
  api_method :find_all, :returns => [[Person]]
end

soap_client = ActionWebService::Client::Soap.new(PersonAPI, 
"http://...")
persons = soap_client.find_all

This works well but I think it breaks down quickly when you try to do 
real world work.  Lets take a moderately complex WSDL file from a bank 
with some thirty operations and about fifty different parameter object 
types.


Obviously I don''t want to code everyone of these object types.  Is
there
a better way?  What would be nice is something like:

./script/generate web_service_client http://the.bank.com/service.wsdl

that would generate all the ActionWebService::API::Base classes.

Another thought is to just leave the whole AWS idea behind and use 
SOAP4R.

Your thoughts?
Matt Bauer

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I dumped AWS long ago and just use SOAP4R. Far more reliable and better 
supported, though even SOAP4R isn''t perfect either. AWS is going to be 
taken out of Rails core and moved into a plugin in the future anyway as 
its not being actively worked on.

Cheers

Jonathan

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Matt Bauer wrote:
> I''m working on building a SOAP client with AWS, i.e:
> 
> class PersonAPI < ActionWebService::API::Base
>   api_method :find_all, :returns => [[Person]]
> end
> 
> soap_client = ActionWebService::Client::Soap.new(PersonAPI, 
> "http://...")
> persons = soap_client.find_all
> 
> This works well but I think it breaks down quickly when you try to do 
> real world work.  Lets take a moderately complex WSDL file from a bank 
> with some thirty operations and about fifty different parameter object 
> types.
> 
> 
> Obviously I don''t want to code everyone of these object types.  Is
there
> a better way?  What would be nice is something like:
> 
> ./script/generate web_service_client http://the.bank.com/service.wsdl
> 
> that would generate all the ActionWebService::API::Base classes.
> 
> Another thought is to just leave the whole AWS idea behind and use 
> SOAP4R.
> 
> Your thoughts?
> Matt Bauer
>

Jonathan Conway wrote:
> I dumped AWS long ago and just use SOAP4R. Far more reliable and better
> supported, though even SOAP4R isn''t perfect either. AWS is going
to be
> taken out of Rails core and moved into a plugin in the future anyway as
> its not being actively worked on.
As I understand it, AWS is not long for this world, rails-wise.  It''s 
very likely to be dropped from the core Rails in a future release.

A.

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