A library for dealing with SOAP requests and responses. We tear our hair out so you don't have to.

• Code: https://github.com/loco2/lolsoap
• Gem: http://rubygems.org/gems/lolsoap
• Docs: http://rubydoc.info/gems/lolsoap/frames

• A collection of classes to make dealing with SOAP requests and responses, and WSDL documents, easier.
• The classes are intended to be loosely coupled and non-prescriptive about how they are used.
• LolSoap does not know anything about what HTTP library you want to use, and does not care whether you're doing the IO in a synchronous or asynchronous fashion. This does mean you have to provide a little bit of glue code, but the benefit is flexibility.
• No monkey-patching.
• Runs without warnings.

# You will need your own HTTP client
http = MyHttpClient.new

# LolSoap::Client is just a thin wrapper object that handles creating
# other objects for you, with a given WSDL file
client = LolSoap::Client.new(File.read('lolapi.wsdl'))

# Create a request object
request = client.request('getLols')

# Populate the request with some data. Namespacing is taken care of
# using the type data from the WSDL. The WSDL also tells us whether
# a given name (e.g. lolFactor below) should be treated as an
# attribute or a sub-element.
request.body do |b|
  b.lolFactor '11'
  b.lolDuration 'lolever'
  ...
end

# Request header can be built in a similar way:
request.header do |h|
  h.username 'zomg'
  ...
end

# See the full request XML
puts request.content

# Send that request!
raw_response = http.post(request.url, request.headers, request.content)

# Create a response object
response = client.response(request, raw_response)

# Get access to the XML structure (a Nokogiri::XML::Document)
p response.doc

# Get access to the first node inside the Body
p response.body

# Turn the body into a hash. The WSDL schema is used to work out which
# elements are supposed to be collections and which are just singular.
p response.body_hash

• Assumes that you are able to supply a WSDL document for the service.
• Some of the finer details of namespace handling may be glossed over. This is just pragmatism; patches to improve namespace handling are welcome.

These are some of the key classes. If you want, you can require them directly (e.g. require 'lolsoap/request' rather than having to require 'lolsoap').

The main ones:

• LolSoap::Request - A HTTP request to be sent
• LolSoap::Envelope - The SOAP envelope in the body of a request
• LolSoap::Response - The API's response
• LolSoap::WSDL - A WSDL document

The others:

• LolSoap::WSDLParser - Lower level representation of the WSDL document
• LolSoap::Builder - XML builder object that knows about types, and therefore how elements should be namespaced.
• LolSoap::Fault - A SOAP 'fault' (error)
• LolSoap::HashBuilder - Builds hashes from the API response, using the WSDL type data to determine which elements are collection elements.

To append a WSSE node to the header using the akami gem:

wsse = Akami.wsse
wsse.credentials(username, password)
request.header.__node__ << wsse.to_xml

• Jon Leighton

Development sponsored by Loco2.

• Use frozen_string_literal to improve speed/memory usage

• Added support for using WSDL with abstract types in operation definitions

• Support unqualified form for elements in a schema

• Use namespaces when looking up definitions
• Added support for referenced attribute groups

• Added support for element references in type definitions
• Added support for operations with multipart header/body
• Added support for multipart messages in WSDL

• Support SOAP Header types

• Generate our own namespace prefixes rather than using ones from the WSDL document. This fixes issues with WSDLs that use the same prefix to denote different namespaces in different places.

• Don't raise an exception on when a SOAP fault is detected. Whether or not this is an exceptional situation should be up to the user, as APIs may use SOAP faults to implement business logic errors.
• Ruby 1.8 support dropped

• Support for WSDL inline type definitions and type extensions

• SOAP 1.1 support
• Better handling of namespaces in the XML schema. You should now be able to have two types a:foo and b:foo and it will Just Work. This introduces some API incompatibilities with version 1.1. Specifically, LolSoap::WSDL#types is now keyed based on a prefixed type name rather than an unprefixed type name. This shouldn't affect you if you're not using LolSoap::WSDL#types directly.
• Add support for building attributes with LolSoap::Builder based on the XML Schema information.

Initial release

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Loco2 Ltd.

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