Add namespace to the SOAP Body and Header

Ruby
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Hi,

I’m trying to add a namespace to the SOAP Body and Header.
I send the request:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”
xmlns:env=“http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/”
xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”>
env:Body
<n1:Air_MultiAvailability xmlns:n1=“http://my.url.com/SAR_07”>

But I would like to send:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”
xmlns:env=“http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/”
xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”>
<soap:Header xmlns="http://webservices.amadeus.com/definitions
"></soap:Header>
<env:Body xmlns=“http://my.url.com/SAR_07”>
<Air_MultiAvailability>

I have tested the last one and it works.
So I need several things:

_add namespaces to the Header and Body tags,
_plus the Header tag is empty, it does not contain any element (I have
seen
lots of example that add element to the header but not just an empty
header):

<soap:Header xmlns="http://webservices.amadeus.com/definitions
"></soap:Header>

Thanks for any help.

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Hi,

David Alphen wrote:

So I need several things:

_add namespaces to the Header and Body tags,
_plus the Header tag is empty, it does not contain any element (I have seen
lots of example that add element to the header but not just an empty
header):

<soap:Header xmlns="http://webservices.amadeus.com/definitions
"></soap:Header>

Following code samples require soap4r-1.5.6 RC2. You need to get 1.5.6
RC2 from http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r/wiki#a2007-06-05:1.5.6-RC2

  1. empty SOAP Header

soap4r-1.5.5 cannot send empty SOAPHeader. With 1.5.6, you can do that
like this;

require ‘soap/rpc/driver’
require ‘soap/header/handler’

class EmptyHeaderHandler < SOAP::Header::Handler
def on_outbound(header)
# dump SOAPHeader even if it has no item
header.force_encode = true
header.extraattr[‘xmlns’] = ‘urn:foo’
# no item needed
nil
end
end

driver = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new(‘http://localhost:7171/soapendpoint’)
driver.wiredump_dev = STDOUT
driver.headerhandler << EmptyHeaderHandler.new(XSD::QName::EMPTY)
driver.add_method(‘nop’).call

  1. free namespace definition control

At first, XML processors must handle both A and B as the same.

A. env:Body
<n1:Air_MultiAvailability xmlns:n1=“http://my.url.com/SAR_07”/>
</env:Body>
B. <env:Body xmlns=“http://my.url.com/SAR_07”>
<Air_MultiAvailability/>
</env:Body>

But I can understand that there’s a case we cannot change other party’s
SOAP implementation. For the case of this, you need to construct XML by
yourself like this;

driver = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new(‘http://localhost:7171/soapendpoint’)
header = SOAP::SOAPHeader.new
header.extraattr[‘xmlns’] = ‘urn:foo’
header.force_encode = true
require ‘rexml/document’
body = SOAP::SOAPBody.new(
REXML::Document.new(‘<Air_MultiAvailability/>’))
body.extraattr[‘xmlns’] = ‘urn:foo’
driver.invoke(header, body)

Of course you’d better to ask the other party to fix the implementation.

Regards,
// NaHi

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Hello,

Thank you,

I’ve updated to 1.5.6 RC2 and it works now, here is my code:

/* Start code */

require ‘soap/header/handler’
require ‘http-access2’
require ‘soap/wsdlDriver’

wsdl = “myWsdl.wsdl”

factory = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl)
driver = factory.create_rpc_driver

save the SOAP message

driver.wiredump_file_base = File.join(File.dirname (FILE), “tmp”)
driver.wiredump_dev = STDERR if $DEBUG

class EmptyHeaderHandler < SOAP::Header::Handler

def on_outbound(header)
# dump SOAPHeader even if it has no item
header.force_encode = true
header.extraattr[‘xmlns’] = ‘urn:foo’
# no item needed
nil
end

end

driver.headerhandler << EmptyHeaderHandler.new(XSD::QName::EMPTY)

parameters = { #… my parameters }

req = driver.Air_MultiAvailability(parameters)

/* End of code */

Well, I have an other question I’ll ask in a new topic about wsdl2ruby.

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