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I''d like to know if there is any way to accept a CDATA block as a parameter to an ActionWebService API method. I''d like to have something like this, class MyAPI < ActionWebService::API::Base api_method :test, :expects => [:cdata] end The client would pass "<![CDATA[ ...blah blah... ]]>" as the parameter to the method, test. Perhaps I need to specify

Hi Folks, I''m having trouble with setting up web services with layered dispatching. I''ve defined my controller (backend_controller.rb) as: class BackendController < ApplicationController web_service_dispatching_mode :layered web_service_scaffold :invoke web_service (:car) {CarService.new} end and my service (node_service.rb) as:

So I''m playing with AWS. I''ve got a thing called a gallery. I''d like to return a list of them. I can do this fine if I want to return my ActiveRecord objects: class WxApiApi < ActionWebService::API::Base api_method :list_galleries, :expects=>[{:login=>:string}], :returns => [[Gallery]] end But the ActiveRecord object exposes a

Hi, We''ve a pretty large rails application and we are currently deciding moving a part of the application front-end to a desktop GUI. For communication between application and GUI we decided to use an API. So basically what I need is a way to have our models functionality accessible by the GUI. The basic idea: Rails app provides API for models <-> HTTPS Connection <-> GUI

I''m working in a web service, actually, I have: class UnifiedLoginApi < ActionWebService::API::Base class CLL_Metadata < ActionWebService::Struct member :key, :string member :type, :string member :value, :string member :webapplication_id, :string member :user_tenfold_id, :string member :login_username, :string

API-> hello_message_api.rb. class HelloMessageApi < ActionWebService::API::Base api_method :hello_message, :expects => [{:firstname=>:string}, {:lastname=>:string}], :returns => [:string] end controller -> class HelloMessageController < ApplicationController web_service_api HelloMessageApi web_service_dispatching_mode :direct wsdl_service_name

I''m using ActionWebService and defining the following API method: api_method(:validate, :expects => [{:id => :int}, {:value => :string}], :returns => [{:valid => :boolean}, {:error_message => :string}]) if I implement this method as follows: def validate(id, value) return true, ''no error'' end I get the following error

i am reading through chapter 20 of the agile web development book and trying to figure out how to use web services. i set up two different rails apps. one as the server and one as the client. setting up the server seems to work fine. but when i use the example at the end of the chapter to set up a client, i get the following error when i open the page: Missing API definition file in

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

Hello, I have seen some odd behaviour of my Web Services code plus some ''similar'' postings to this list, so I believe this may be a bug in Rails. But I''m failry new to RoR, so maybe I''m doing something wrong. I''ll explain: I have a WS API defined, communicating with a remote system that expects a stucture: When defined like this (all

Hi all - I''m implementing some web services and every one has at the very least a "find_newer_than" method. In my models, I''ve split things up like this and it works great. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- class XyzService < WebService web_service_api XyzApi .... service specific methods go here... end class

I have defined a web service to return information from a database as follows. class BackendApi < ActionWebService::API::Base api_method :find_all_vobs, :returns => [[:int]] api_method :find_vob_by_id, :expects => [:int], :returns => [Vob] class BackendController < ApplicationController wsdl_service_name ''Backend''

I''m currently writing an app that provides a Web Service. I''ve got a model Header and an associated has_one HeaderImage and I''m trying to find a way to make this data available. Defining a normal API: api_method :header, :expects => [{''id'' => :int}], :returns => [Header] Only returns the header object without associations, has anyone got

Hi! I try to use a layered webservice and I want to get back an array of users; In the API I use: api_method :listUsers,:returns=>[[User]] in the service: def listUsers User.find(:all) end Result in soap mode: Don''t know how to cast TrueClass to Object Result in XML-RPC mode: You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it! You might have expected

So I''ve read the Action Web Service bit of the documentation for a while, searched around and asked on the IRQ channel and I just can''t seem to get a simple Hello World type web service up and running with AWS on Rails. I have a file called hello_person_api.rb which looks like this: class HelloPersonAPI < ActionWebService::API::Base api_method :HelloName, :expects

Hi *, I need to pass a hash to a webservice, so I defined my API with: api_method :search, :expects => [{ :tags => :string, :assignment => :string, :resource => :string, :lesson_plan => :string, :subject => :string, :all_types => :string }], :returns => [[Resource]] when I try to test the webservice with scaffold the

I have a method: ? def reduceProuctInventoryBy(product_id, reduction) ? ? t=Product.find(:first, :conditions =>["id = ?", product_id]) ? ? t.qty=(t.qty-reduction) ? ? t.save ? end and the model: class Product < ActiveRecord::Base ? validates_presence_of :qty, :specialDescription ? validates_numericality_of :qty end but when i run my method, I get this: "can''t

I''m working with ActionWebService, building a SOAP Service. I realize that I can returns various values, in example: api_method :foo, :expects [ { :value1 => :int }, { :value2 => :int } ], :returns [ { :return_value_1 => :int}, { :return_value_2 => :string}, { :return_value_3 =>

I have the following: File: subscription_api.rb class SubscriptionApi < ActionWebService::API::Base api_method :newTest, :returns => [ [[:string]] ] end File: subscription_controller.rb class SubscriptionController < ApplicationController wsdl_service_name ''Subscription'' web_service_scaffold :invoke def newTest() return [

Hi all, Does anyone have any advice about returning multiple values from an ActionWebService? That is, I''d like to implement something like the following. api_method :do_something, :expects => [{:id => :string}], :returns => [{:return_code => :int}, {:return_text => :string}] The easy way to do it would be to