Problems with SOAP: duplicate XML declarations

Rails
1

Hi,

I’m trying to implement a SOAP client using the native Ruby SOAP
client library. Here’s the relevant bit of code:

 XSD::Charset.encoding = 'UTF8'                       # Set

encoding
wsdlfile = “http://ws.interfax.net/dfs.asmx?wsdl” # WSDL
location
driver =
SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdlfile).create_rpc_driver # Create
driver

and set up

methods

 driver.wiredump_dev = STDERR # output SOAP transactions to STDERR
 @result = driver.SendCharFax({:Username => username, :Password =>

password, :FaxNumber => destinationfaxnumber, :Data =>
‘hello’, :FileType => ‘’})

For some reason, this is sending XML with two XML declarations! Here
is what it is sending:

<?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

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> pass123 001801751234 hello faxuser

I’ve tried to figure out what’s going, tried searching Google and also
asked another Ruby developer, but neither of us have a clue why it’s
doing this.

Can anybody point me in the right direction?

Cheers,

Jon
PS: This is the first application I’ve written in Ruby… so don’t
discount obvious solutions :wink:

2

I haven’t done too much SOAP, but what I have done, I did pretty much
exactly the way you did. So, this looks like a bug to me. You might
want to post this to the Ruby list… Also, the Ruby soap
implementation is otherwise known as SOAP4r and it has a trac and some
help here:

http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r

If you figure it out, please do post it here!

Ben

3

Thanks, I was rather confused about all the different SOAP libraries
around, so thanks for telling me what soap4r is. It looks like a bug
to me too, but I didn’t think I was doing anything particularly
unusual so I suspected my ineptitude more than a bug in a well-used
piece of code.

I’ll post it to the Ruby list… signing up via Google G. didn’t
work so I guess I’ll have to do it the old-fashioned way.

Cheers,

Jon