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    Table of Contents

  1. Changes in 1.5.4
    1. SOAP client and server
      1. for both client side and server side
      2. client side
      3. server side
    2. WSDL
      1. WSDL definition
      2. code generation from WSDL
    3. Samples
    4. Redists

Changes in 1.5.4

Version 1.5.4 is the next version of 1.5.2. Version 1.5.3 is the module which is included in ruby-1.8.2 and not released independently.

Changes in 1.5.3 from 1.5.2 are at Changes of soap4r module in ruby-1.8.2. (Version 1.5.2 and 1.5.3 are included in ruby-1.8.1 and ruby-1.8.2 respectively.)

Here are changes in 1.5.4 from 1.5.3.

SOAP client and server

for both client side and server side

  • improved document/literal service support. style(rpc, document)/use(encoding, literal) combination are all supported. for the detail about combination, see test/soap/test_style.rb. #60.
  • let WSDLEncodedRegistry#soap2obj map SOAP/OM to Ruby according to WSDL as well as obj2soap. closes #70.
  • let SOAP::Mapping::Object handle XML attribute for doc/lit service. you can set/get XML attribute via accessor methods which as a name 'xmlattr_' prefixed (<foo name="bar"/> -> Foo#xmlattr_name). #81.

client side

  • WSDLDriver capitalized name operation bug fixed. from 1.5.3-ruby1.8.2, operation which has capitalized name (such as KeywordSearchRequest? in AWS) is defined as a method having uncapitalized name. (converted with GenSupport?.safemethodname to handle operation name 'foo-bar'). it introduced serious incompatibility; in the past, it was defined as a capitalized. define capitalized method as well under that circumstance. #64.
  • added new factory interface 'WSDLDriverFactory#create_rpc_driver' to create RPC::Driver, not WSDLDriver (RPC::Driver and WSDLDriver are merged). 'WSDLDriverFactory#create_driver' still creates WSDLDriver for compatibility but it warns that the method is deprecated. please use create_rpc_driver instead of create_driver. #10.
  • allow to use an URI object as an endpoint_url even with net/http, not http-access2. #54.

server side

  • added mod_ruby support to SOAP::CGIStub. rename a CGI script server.cgi to server.rb and let mod_ruby's RubyHandler? handles the script. CGIStub detects if it's running under mod_ruby environment or not.
  • added fcgi support to SOAP::CGIStub. see the sample at sample/soap/calc/server.fcgi. (almost same as server.cgi but has fcgi handler at the bottom.)
  • allow to return a SOAPFault object to respond customized SOAP fault. #63.
  • added the interface 'generate_explicit_type' for server side (CGIStub, HTTPServer). call 'self.generate_explicit_type = true' if you want to return simplified XML even if it's rpc/encoded service.

WSDL

WSDL definition

  • improved XML Schema support such as extension, restriction, simpleType, complexType + simpleContent, ref, length, import, include.
  • reduced "unknown element/attribute" warnings (warn only 1 time for each QName). #66.
  • importing XSD file at schemaLocation with xsd:import. #88.

code generation from WSDL

  • generator crashed when there's '-' in defined element/attribute name. #47.

Samples

  • added XML <-> Ruby mapping utility. XSD::Mapping#xml2obj maps an XML to a tree of SOAP::Mapping::Object. XSD::Mapping#obj2xml is for reverse direction conversion. see a sample in sample/wsdl/noaa/client.rb
  • added a sample for weather.gov's NDFD services.
  • add a sample of googleAdWords. CAUTION: I don't have an account of AdWords? so the sample code is NOT tested. Please tell me (nahi@ruby-lang.org) if you will get good/bad result in communicating with AdWords? Server. #91.
  • add a sample of AWSECommerce. CAUTION: I don't have an account of AWSECommerce so the sample code is NOT tested. Please tell me (nahi@ruby-lang.org) if you will get good/bad result in communicating with AWSECommerce Server. #33.

Redists

  • include xmlscan as a redistributed module. xmlscan now is a first class XML processor. still soap4r should run with REXML and XMLParser.