Savon should output nicely formatted XML to the terminal.

[redbar0n]

The nice example over at:

http://savonrb.com/examples.html#german_bank_code_lookup

shows the XML SOAP request debug output formatted like this (on multiple lines):

DEBUG -- : <env:Envelope
DEBUG -- :     xmlns:blz="http://thomas-bayer.com/blz/"
DEBUG -- :     xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
DEBUG -- :     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
DEBUG -- :     xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
DEBUG -- :   <env:Body>
DEBUG -- :     <blz:getBank>
DEBUG -- :       <blz:blz>70070010</blz:blz>
DEBUG -- :     </blz:getBank>
DEBUG -- :   </env:Body>
DEBUG -- : </env:Envelope>

But currently, Savon doesn't seem to have an option to output the XML nicely formatted like this.
Everything is rather mangled up in a single line, which is harder to read.

I have failed to find an option to specify this. There should be one (imho).

[rubiii]

the examples were formatted for readability obviously ;) the problem i see with this feature is speed.
requests are build using builder which is able to format xml, but the response would need to be parsed
or formatted on a string-level. i'd like to have nicely formatted xml and i'm open for suggestions.

[redbar0n]

Ah, that's what I feared ;)

Would it be hard to make an option to output only the request in that format? Even that would help..

Someone suggested that I transform the response into a Nokogiri::XML object, like this:

puts Nokogiri::XML(response[:foo][:bar])

Could that work?
I'm not sure what the :foo and the :bar would be..

[rubiii]

i'll think about it, but (to be honest) it's currently not on my "top-priority" list. there's already a method for
returning the response as a nokogiri document and i guess you could somehow pretty-print the document.

[redbar0n]

Sure, I can see that, no worries.

If I manage to hack together a solution myself I will post it here or at the related question on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8939194/how-do-i-format-the-xml-that-savon-outputs-to-the-terminal/8946387#8946387

[rubiii]

thank you very much :)

[jaredhoward]

Implemented in pull request #280

[lypanov]

Any chance this could be merged? It would really help when getting started using Savon.

[rubiii]

released as v0.9.10. here's an example:

Savon.configure do |config|
  config.pretty_print_xml = true
end

or configured per client:

client = Savon.client("http://example.com")
client.config.pretty_print_xml = true

[redbar0n]

@jaredhoward and @rubiii you are both awesome! :-)

[lstejskal]

Nice! Many thanks, I was waiting for this fix to be released.

[ghost]

@rubiii It seems client.config has been removed in 2. What is the new syntax for that.

[tjarratt]

@sachinprasad The new syntax is pretty similar -- you can find it on the savon site http://savonrb.com/version2

require 'savon'
client = Savon.client do
  wsdl "http://example.com?wsdl"
  pretty_print_xml true
end