Rails - Jul 2006 - Web Service (server) and file_column issues

Hi there,

I''m having some issues with using SOAP and file_column. The Web service
I
created is pretty straight forward. It gets the 5 most recently updated
members from the database. Nothing too spectacular. However, the Members
class uses file_column and when I try to connect to my web service I get
this error:

TypeError        in Connect to serviceController#display_recent_updates
Do not know how to handle a string with value
''/Users/dhoefler/Projects/apps/rover/public/member/image_path/147/866786797_l.jpg''
that was passed to a file_column. Check if the form''s encoding has been
set
to ''multipart/form-data''.


My web service API looks like the following for my server app:
api_method :find_members_recently_updated, :returns => [[Member]]


And here''s how I call the service from my client app:

  def display_recent_updates
    XSD::Charset.encoding = ''UTF8''
    wsdlfile = "http://localhost:3000/community/wsdl"
    driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdlfile).create_rpc_driver

    @result = driver.FindMembersRecentlyUpdated
  end


I have about 30 columns in my members table, but I''d prefer to return
only a
few columns (nickname, email_address, the URL of their thumbnail image,
updated_at). I don''t want to expose all the columns through the web
service.

Any ideas?

Thank you,
Dave Hoefler
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