Hi,
My application in rails 2.3.14, i want to implement the web services
method, please tell which one shall i use.
I have tried some action-webservice and one soap concept, but i didnt
get the request and responses fully.
Please suggest me.
Deepika V. wrote in post #1043854:
My application in rails 2.3.14, i want to implement the web services
method, please tell which one shall i use.I have tried some action-webservice and one soap concept, but i didnt
get the request and responses fully.Please suggest me.
If you absolutely, positively have no other choice than using SOAP then
try the following:
Otherwise, if you do have a choice, then get onboard with the rest of
the sane world and use REST web services.
Robert W. wrote in post #1043857:
Deepika V. wrote in post #1043854:
My application in rails 2.3.14, i want to implement the web services
method, please tell which one shall i use.I have tried some action-webservice and one soap concept, but i didnt
get the request and responses fully.Please suggest me.
If you absolutely, positively have no other choice than using SOAP then
try the following:Otherwise, if you do have a choice, then get onboard with the rest of
the sane world and use REST web services.
Will u plz tell some other webservices methods, atleast i want 2 or 3
example applications in soap concepts, i didnt get this concept fully.
Thanks,
Deepika.
Hi Deepika,
Please see a sample savon app code here
http://www.spritle.com/blogs/2011/09/28/consume-soap-webservices-using-ruby-with-savon/
Regards
Balaji
Spritle software.
Deepika V. wrote in post #1043913:
Will u plz tell some other webservices methods, atleast i want 2 or 3
example applications in soap concepts, i didnt get this concept fully.
I’m sorry, I don’t quite understand this question.
What do you mean by, “other web services methods?” Do you mean other
protocols besides SOAP and REST? Or do you mean other SOAP frameworks?
If you meant the former then there are some other protocols, like CORBA
for example. However, it’s very rare to see that outside of really old
legacy systems. Another option would be to develop your own custom web
service protocol.
If you meant the latter then there’s soap4r
(soap4r | RubyGems.org | your community gem host) and maybe some others. However, AFAIK
Savon is likely much better and easier to use.
What do you mean by, “I didn’t get this concept fully.”
If you found understanding the SOAP protocol difficult then join the
rest of us. SOAP is complicated and not easily understood. There’s no
way I can even begin to help you understand it. I’ve interfaced with a
number of SOAP services myself. Most of them took some real effort to
get working correctly.
You might be fine if you are using the exact same SOAP tools on both the
server and client side (this is almost certainly not the case if you’re
working with Ruby). But, this actually defeats the purpose of having web
services protocol standards.
The problem with SOAP is that the standard is broken. Not everyone
implements SOAP the same way, so clients built in one tool won’t work
correctly with servers built with a different tool. This is the primary
reason why Rails is opinionated, and biased, toward the REST protocol
for web services. Rails is REST by design.