# SOAP request malformed (missing n1 element)

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**Created:** [February 1, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-request-malformed-missing-n1-element/84138 "2007-02-01T20:16:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-request-malformed-missing-n1-element/84138/1 "2007-02-01T20:16:53Z")

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I’ve been trying to get this working for over a week now and I can’t for  
the life of me work it out.

I can currently generate SOAP requests in Ruby  
by two methods:

1. Generating classes using wsdl2ruby
2. Using SOAP4r and manually generating requests

My problem is that I can get each of these to complete 90% of the task  
but  
I’m unable to get either of them to complete the task 100%

Using SOAP4r I can generate a valid request:

\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii" ?\>

\<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:ProcessAddress xmlns:n1=“[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)”\>  
n1:usernameusername\</n1:username\>  
n1:passwordpassword\</n1:password\>  
n1:tmpContact  
n1:AddressLine11\</n1:AddressLine1\>  
n1:Postcodedg12 6eg\</n1:Postcode\>  
\</n1:tmpContact\>  
\</n1:ProcessAddress\>  
\</env:Body\>  
\</env:Envelope\>

Unfortunately it returns:

\<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c42486  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}ProcessAddressResult=“true”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}tmpContact=#\<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c41536  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}AddressLine1=“1 Murray Street”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}AddressLine2=“Annan”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}AddressLine3=“DG12 6EG”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}AddressLine4=“United Kingdom”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}AddressLine5=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3f88a  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}AddressLine6=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3f4c0  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}AddressLine7=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3f0ec  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}AddressLine8=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3ed0e  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}Company=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3e926  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}Building=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3e52a  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}SubBuilding=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3e124  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}Department=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3dd1e  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}Premise=“1”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}Street=“Murray Street”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}SubStreet=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3b5a0  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}POBox=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3b168  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}City=“Annan”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}SubCity=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3a6aa  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}Principality=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3a254  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}Region=“Dumfriesshire”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}Postcode=“DG12 6EG”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}DPS=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c38e0e  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}Cedex=#SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x4c3853a  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}Country=“United Kingdom”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}CountryISO=“GBR”  
{[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)}ACR=“L5-P4S6A0T6R6Z4C4-100”\>\>

I haven’t been able to find a way of accessing the information inside  
this  
object.

If I use wsdl4rubys generated classes I generate a malformed SOAP  
request:

\<?xml version="1.0" encoding="us-ascii" ?\>

\<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:ProcessAddress xmlns:n1=“[http://webservices.globaladdress.net](http://webservices.globaladdress.net)”\>  
n1:usernameusername\</n1:username\>  
n1:passwordpassword\</n1:password\>  
n1:tmpContact  
1  
dg12 6eg  
\</n1:tmpContact\>  
\</n1:ProcessAddress\>  
\</env:Body\>  
\</env:Envelope\>

Note the items: addresslin1 and postcode don’t have n1 infront of them.  
This causes the web service to not recognise those elements.

The response is in a format I can use. I can access each of the instance  
variables.

\<ProcessAddressResponse:0x984868c @processAddressResult=true,  
@tmpContact=#\<Contact:0x9848128 @company=nil, @region=nil,  
@addressLine5=nil, @pOBox=nil, @cedex=nil, @addressLine1=“United  
Kingdom”,  
@department=nil, @addressLine8=nil, @principality=nil, @subStreet=nil,  
@addressLine4=nil, @subBuilding=nil, @countryISO=“GBR”, @dPS=nil,  
@addressLine7=nil, @subCity=nil, @street=nil,  
@aCR=“L1-P0S0A0T0R0Z0C4-000”, @addressLine3=nil, @building=nil,  
@postcode=nil, @addressLine6=nil, @city=nil, @premise=nil,  
@country=“United Kingdom”, @addressLine2=nil\>\>

I’m using structs to generate the items in n1:tmpContact

address = Struct.new(:AddressLine1, :postcode)  
request = Struct.new(:username, :password, :tmpContact)  
driver.ProcessAddress(request.new(“username”,“password”,  
address.new(“1”,  
“dg12 6eg”)))

Does anyone know how I can either:

1. Access the data in the returned object in the first example
2. Generate a valid SOAP request with the missing n1 elements
3. Suggest another way I can go about this