# Issue with SOAP response XML format for Array Types with AWS

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/issue-with-soap-response-xml-format-for-array-types-with-aws/162730>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 13, 2009, 8:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/issue-with-soap-response-xml-format-for-array-types-with-aws/162730 "2009-03-13T08:23:21Z")\
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Hi All,

There is an issue with AWS in SOAP response XML generated for Array  
types.

If we are using array types in signature at returns place, then in  
SOAP response XML for this method array elements are represented with  
 tags.

How can we give another meaningful tag name or give attribute (that  
uniquely identify the tag) to the tags instead of tag in the  
response XML ??

Take below thing in consideration.

## API signature for seach\_products.

api\_method :search\_products,  
:expects =\> [:string], // expects string input.  
:returns =\> [[Product]] // returns array of strings.

## Product Structure Class

class Product\< ActionWebService::Struct  
member :id, :integer  
member :name, :string  
end

## Response XML Output.
\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?\>

\<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd=“[http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema)”  
xmlns:env=“[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/)”  
xmlns:xsi=“[http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance](http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance)”\>  
env:Body  
\<n1:SearchProductsResponse xmlns:n1=“urn:ActionWebService”  
env:encodingStyle=“[http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/](http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/)”\>  
  
  
data 1-1  
data 1-2  
  
  
data 2-1  
data 2-2  
  
  
\</n1:SearchProductsResponse \>  
\</env:Body\>  
\</env:Envelope\>

* * *

Looking at the format of the XML it seems that AWS is using RPC  
encoding style for WSDL and SOAP request and responses.

So taking above situation in consideration if we need to get   
tag instead of tags in the SOAP response XML then how can we do  
that ??

Thanks,  
Piyush.