I am working on building a prototype for a Rails Web Service that will
be used potentially by non-ruby/rails languages. When testing using the
invoke scaffold I have no problem getting the correct result, however
when using a 3rd party PHP client I get a NoMethodError (undefined
method `collect’ for #SOAP::SOAPNil:0x24ea1bc): exception from the
rails Webrick web server.
This is what the invoke is sending that gets the correct result:
<env:Envelope xmlns:xsd=“XML Schema”
xmlns:env=“http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/”
xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”>
env:Body
<n1:ViewAll xmlns:n1=“urn:ActionWebService”
env:encodingStyle=“http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/”>
</n1:ViewAll>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>
This is what the PHP client is sending that causes rails to blow up:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV=“http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/”
xmlns:xsd=“XML Schema”
xmlns:xsi=“http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”
xmlns:SOAP-ENC=“http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/”
xmlns:ns4=“urn:ActionWebService”
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle=“http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/”>
SOAP-ENV:Body
<ns4:ViewAll xsi:nil=“true”>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
Obviously the two SOAP blocks are formatted differently, and I have no
idea how big of a deal that is, but it appears that the only major
difference is the /xsi:nil=“true”/ in the second block.
Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong or what I could do to fix
this issue?
Now I will say this, the web service seems to opperate properly when the
method being called actually takes parameters. The ViewAll method
doesn’t take any parameters, any idea why that might make a difference?
Right now everything is sample code, so I would have no problem posting
code if anyone wanted me to.
Thanks in advance for any help given!
Full stacktrace:
NoMethodError (undefined method collect' for #<SOAP::SOAPNil:0x24ea1bc>): /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol.rb:61:in decode_request’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/soap_protocol.rb:45:in
decode_action_pack_request' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/discovery.rb:20:in discover_web_service_request’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/protocol/discovery.rb:18:in
discover_web_service_request' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionwebservice-1.1.2/lib/action_web_service/dispatcher/action_controller_dispatcher.rb:44:in dispatch_web_service_request’ (eval):1:in api' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/base.rb:910:in perform_action_without_filters’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:368:in
perform_action_without_benchmark' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in perform_action_without_rescue’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in measure' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in perform_action_without_rescue’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:82:in
perform_action' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/base.rb:381:in process_without_filters’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:377:in
process_without_session_management_support' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.1/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in process’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in
dispatch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:115:in handle_dispatch’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:81:in
service' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in service’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in run' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in start_thread’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in start_thread' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in start’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:23:in start’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:67:in dispatch’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:59
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
require' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in require’
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.2/lib/commands/server.rb:30
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:21:in
require' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.3.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in require’ script/server:3