Rails - Aug 2006 - SOAP::Mapping::Object attribute access

I have written a Rails web service, which is working exactly as expected.
The service has a method which returns an object of type
ActionWebService::Struct. In my SOAP client, I create a SOAP rpc driver, and
execute the method, like this:

book = driver.ShowTitle(params[:isbn])

I then do a:

logger.info book.inspect

and find this in the log:

<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x..ca7b389da {}author_fname="David"
{}author_lname="Johnson" {}title="The Story of SOAP">

I cannot figure out how to access the attributes of this
SOAP::Mapping::Object. The empty curly braces are throwing me for a loop.

Anyone see this before?
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So, after a couple of days of head scratching, I finally figured it out.

The argument to the [] instance method for SOAP::Mapping::Object requires a
quoted string rather than a symbol, so this one is solved.

On 8/4/06, Doug Selph <dselph@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have written a Rails web service, which is working exactly as expected.
> The service has a method which returns an object of type
> ActionWebService::Struct. In my SOAP client, I create a SOAP rpc driver,
and
> execute the method, like this:
>
> book = driver.ShowTitle(params[:isbn])
>
> I then do a:
>
> logger.info book.inspect
>
> and find this in the log:
>
> &lt;SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x..ca7b389da
{}author_fname="David"
> {}author_lname="Johnson" {}title="The Story of
SOAP"&gt;
>
> I cannot figure out how to access the attributes of this
> SOAP::Mapping::Object. The empty curly braces are throwing me for a loop.
>
> Anyone see this before?
>
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