# VMWare WSDL Client? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [February 16, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vmware-wsdl-client/85829 "2007-02-16T17:27:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![seeah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@seeah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seeah)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vmware-wsdl-client/85829/1 "2007-02-16T17:27:29Z")
Greetings, I’m just getting my feet wet with Ruby and have decided that it’s the perfect tool for a couple of projects I have on the go. One component of a project is to be able to query (and eventually manipulate) information being offered from a VMWare Virtual Center server. They have a complete SDK available that’s supported on Java, .Net and Axis. No mention of Ruby, but as long as it’s a properly done WSDL implementation that shouldn’t matter, right 🙂 ? Anyway, I just downloaded the SDK and installed soap4r. When I try to run wsdl2ruby.rb, I get the following errors. wsdl2ruby.rb --wsdl vim.wsdl --type client --force F, [2007-02-16T17:01:57.716826 #806] FATAL – app: Detected an exception. Stopping … undefined method `new' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError) /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/xsd/xmlparser/ parser.rb:33:in`create\_parser’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/xsd/ xmlparser.rb:17:in `create_parser' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/wsdl/parser.rb: 53:in`initialize’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/wsdl/ importer.rb:29:in `new' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/wsdl/ importer.rb:29:in`parse’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/wsdl/xmlSchema/ importer.rb:30:in `import' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/wsdl/ importer.rb:18:in`import’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/wsdl/soap/ wsdl2ruby.rb:190:in `import' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/wsdl/soap/ wsdl2ruby.rb:34:in`run’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/bin/wsdl2ruby.rb: 44:in `run' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/logger.rb:684:in`start’ /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/bin/wsdl2ruby.rb:131 /usr/bin/wsdl2ruby.rb:16:in `load’ /usr/bin/wsdl2ruby.rb:16 I, [2007-02-16T17:01:57.717081 #806] INFO – app: End of app. (status: -1) I can supply the vim.wdsl file that is in the SDK or it’s available on the VMWare site. Hints and tips appreciated, Erik ---
**Author:** ![seeah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@seeah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seeah)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vmware-wsdl-client/85829/2 "2007-02-16T20:49:01Z")
On Feb 16, 2007, at 5:34 PM, Austin Z. wrote: > On 2/16/07, Erik A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Anyway, I just downloaded the SDK and installed soap4r. When I try > > to run wsdl2ruby.rb, I get the following errors. > > I haven’t tried the VIM WSDL with Ruby, but I can tell you that unless > you’re very familiar with the API, I wouldn’t recommend trying it as > an early project in Ruby. (I’m using gSOAP for C++ access to the API; > I’m succeeding, but the API makes LDAP look sane.) Hmmm - I’ve got lots of experience with LDAP 🙂 But thanks for the pointer - should you ever decide to give it a shot with Ruby, I’d be very interested in hearing how it goes… Out of curiosity, do you think it would be possible to edit vim.wsdl file to limit it to certain basic inventory functions? Cheers, Erik ---
**Author:** ![seeah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@seeah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seeah)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vmware-wsdl-client/85829/3 "2007-02-16T17:35:30Z")
On 2/16/07, Erik A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Anyway, I just downloaded the SDK and installed soap4r. When I try > to run wsdl2ruby.rb, I get the following errors. I haven’t tried the VIM WSDL with Ruby, but I can tell you that unless you’re very familiar with the API, I wouldn’t recommend trying it as an early project in Ruby. (I’m using gSOAP for C++ access to the API; I’m succeeding, but the API makes LDAP look sane.) -austin ---
**Author:** ![seeah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@seeah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seeah)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vmware-wsdl-client/85829/4 "2007-06-06T16:24:36Z")
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sorry for the late response. Austin Z. wrote: > So no, editing it won’t help. soap4r-1.5.6 might be able to handle that. At least wsdl2ruby.rb can parse the definition… > wsdl2ruby.rb --wsdl …/vimService.wsdl --type client 12.89s user 3.97s system 82% cpu 20.335 total > 0% ls -l > total 2368 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nahi nahi 112947 Jun 6 23:17 VimServiceClient.rb > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nahi nahi 760335 Jun 6 23:16 default.rb > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nahi nahi 180123 Jun 6 23:16 defaultDriver.rb > -rw-rw-r-- 1 nahi nahi 1323481 Jun 6 23:16 defaultMappingRegistry.rb > 0% ruby -rdefaultDriver -e ‘VimPortType.new.retrieveServiceContent(RetrieveServiceContent.new(ManagedObjectReference.new(“Serviceinstance”)))’ > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:1523:in `initialize': Connection refused - connect(2) (localhost, #443) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/http-access2.rb:1523:in`new’ > [snip] I’ve not yet call the method actually (see above; connection refused), it may work. Can someone try it? Regards, // NaHi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) iQEVAwUBRmbDXx9L2jg5EEGlAQLfNQf+PjuILyFvBtwKitfl/Z7P66yyZ/vNu4yV 4nTLoiArIfpjmO611Dxhx1gYP+tYt9KokmFujc+9g4kH2abEH12q/qrwbvGUHuiw /7v7wY1Rcp/gJjKwrxvR0VoBi1dbYychPLlpbvX1Y0NTwnGbMiyOghKq/ODgSPC8 3PNCXK8mOvAdSBxhLXtaLBQwbAWj0zt3KDvmyKPHdJjtB7/kt2C8hj0gHSxZdzgp DtEKJCFNH9DbTqBt5Ja+fobl+kQ8S/lVgAxmwUR5qq/JnBOflZAONZrU3QukRZFK RB1ehSizgSTFQQKtVHNtJ1Qq7ozqWijlo8fhYcQ8TkP5IHOQmXRjMw== =n0x+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---
**Author:** ![seeah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@seeah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/seeah)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2007, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vmware-wsdl-client/85829/5 "2007-02-16T20:58:02Z")
On 2/16/07, Erik A. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hmmm - I’ve got lots of experience with LDAP 🙂 But thanks for the > pointer - should you ever decide to give it a shot with Ruby, I’d be > very interested in hearing how it goes… Out of curiosity, do you > think it would be possible to edit vim.wsdl file to limit it to > certain basic inventory functions? The vast majority of the WSDL (it’s pretty large at 900k) is the data structure declarations, not the method calls. It’s also polymorphic depending on xsd:anyType; I don’t know how well SOAP4R handles that (I haven’t tried, yet). So no, editing it won’t help. -austin