# Help with a simple SOAP WSDL client? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [March 17, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-a-simple-soap-wsdl-client/83326 "2006-03-17T20:24:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-a-simple-soap-wsdl-client/83326/1 "2006-03-17T20:24:19Z")
Hi, I’m trying to write a little SOAP WSDL client to get a currency conversion rate. I have tried what is listed below but I get the error below. I don’t know what I’m doing but I’ve been trying to follow the pickaxe book on page 252. Any suggestions to get this working? Thanks, Peter ## RUBY SCRIPT require ‘soap/wsdlDriver’ require ‘cgi’ WSDL\_URL = “[http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx?WSDL](http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx?WSDL)” soap = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(WSDL\_URL).createDriver result = soap.ConversionRate(“USD”, “CAD”) puts result ## ERROR Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}binding. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}operation. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}urlEncoded. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/)}mimeXml. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}binding. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}operation. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/)}content. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/)}mimeXml. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}address. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}address. soap\_currency\_conversion.rb:8: undefined method `ConversionRate’ for #SOAP::WSDLDriver:0x13202b4 (NoMethodError) ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 7:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-a-simple-soap-wsdl-client/83326/2 "2006-03-22T07:08:55Z")
anyone? ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-a-simple-soap-wsdl-client/83326/3 "2006-03-24T18:14:01Z")
Hi Emil, Thanks for the respone. I’ve tried what you posted and it didn’t work. Did you test this? I got the following error Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}binding. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}operation. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}urlEncoded. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/)}mimeXml. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}binding. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}operation. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/)}content. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/)}mimeXml. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}address. Unknown element {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}address. conversionWS2.rb:5: undefined method `create\_rpc\_driver’ for #SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory: (NoMethodError) I have also tried another suggestion that almost works. It always returns a conversion rate of zero. But it is nice because it doesn’t use WSDL. require ‘soap/rpc/driver’ service = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new(“[http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx","http://www.webserviceX.NET/](http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx%22,%22http://www.webserviceX.NET/)”) service.default\_encodingstyle = SOAP::EncodingStyle::ASPDotNetHandler::Namespace service.add\_method\_with\_soapaction(“ConversionRate”, “[http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate](http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate)”, “FromCurrency”, “ToCurrency”) service.wiredump\_dev = STDERR puts service.ConversionRate(“USD”,“CAD”) Any other ideas? Thanks, Peter ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 6:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-a-simple-soap-wsdl-client/83326/4 "2006-03-23T06:48:43Z")
unknown wrote: > anyone? Here is the example. The service is doc literal and for those services pass the arguments as a hash. * * * require ‘soap/wsdlDriver’ WSDL\_URL = “[http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx?WSDL](http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx?WSDL)” soap = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(WSDL\_URL).create\_rpc\_driver # soap.wiredump\_dev = STDOUT result = soap.ConversionRate(:FromCurrency =\> “USD”, :ToCurrency =\> “CAD”) ## puts result.conversionRateResult The messages : ignored element: {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}binding ignored element: {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}operation ignored element: {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}urlEncoded ignored element: {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/)}mimeXml ignored element: {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/)}content ignored element: {[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/)}address are for unsupported bindings in soap4r. .NET services often include bindings for as urlEncoded, http GET and http POST in addition to SOAP. cheers, emil ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-a-simple-soap-wsdl-client/83326/5 "2010-11-04T16:53:23Z")
Emil Marceta wrote in post #51768: > … .NET services often include bindings for as urlEncoded, http GET and > http POST in addition to SOAP. Apologies for bumping a ridiculously old thread, but it’s exactly on the topic I’m looking for help with. I’m working with an application that runs a web service using POST bindings. It’s been my experience that, even four years later, when people say “web service” they still basically mean SOAP. I’m wondering, though, if there are Ruby now has any support for WSDL 1.1 POST and GET bindings? [http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl#\_http](http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl#_http) A quick Google search seems like it’s not there yet, but I wanted to ask. I’m working with another developer using Ruby, and her job would probably be a lot easier is she could just use wsdl2ruby or a similar rather than have to write her own code for POST requests. - Craig ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-a-simple-soap-wsdl-client/83326/6 "2006-03-25T00:18:58Z")
Resolved. I upgraded to Ruby 1.8.4 and now my example code works. - Peter ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/help-with-a-simple-soap-wsdl-client/83326/7 "2010-11-04T16:56:30Z")
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