XML arguments in operation/action tag under savon 2.0

[courtland]

Hi. I am currently in the process of upgrading to savon 2.x from 1.2 and have hit a bit of a wall. I have an obscure API that I must use that requires arguments other than the operation name to be in the SOAP action tag.

For example:

<soapenv:Body>

   <inn:PostTransactionRQ PosID="ABC321" RoomID="128" Surname="HERNANDEZ">

      <inn:Service Code="WWW" ReferenceID="123456C" Quantity="2"/>

      <inn:Price AmountAfterTax="0.01" CurrencyCode="USD" DecimalPlaces="2">

         </inn:Price>

   </inn:PostTransactionRQ>

</soapenv:Body>

In savon 1.x I had something like:

response = client.request('inn', 'postTransactionRQ',
  # attributes! hash
  { 'PosID' => 'ABC321',
    'RoomID' => '128',
    'Surname' => 'HERNANDEZ'
  }
) do
  soap.body = { ... }
end

Where the second and third arguments to the request method yielded an action tag of:

<inn:PostTransactionRQ PosID="ABC321" RoomID="128" Surname="HERNANDEZ">

So far under savon 2.0 I have not been able to figure out a way to force Gyoku to use an !attributes hash when generating the action/operation tag. I've even looked through the latest Savon code to no avail.

I would prefer to not have to generate the entire message and use the :xml option (overriding Savon Builder). Is there something I am overlooking to accomplish this or can it be added as an option in a new release? Thanks!

[michalgritzbach]

I have exactly the same problem, looking forward for an answer.

[rubiii]

can someone provide a wsdl for testing please?

[courtland]

I'll email you the WSDL I was given. Its for a closed hotel PMS system. I'm
not sure if it correctly indicates the need for the XML attributes I
mentioned, but its all I was able to get from my customer and we were
successfully integrated with their API using savon 1.2 and this WSDL.

Thanks.

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 5:25 AM, Daniel Harrington <notifications@github.com

wrote:

can someone provide a wsdl for testing please?

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[rubiii]

thanks for the wsdl. so the good news is that savon 2.x correctly parses the operation names.
so calling that operation from your issue is as simple as this:

client.call(:post_transaction)

you can get a list of all operations names via:

client.operations

but unfortunately, there is no way of adding attributes to the tag right now.
i'll come up with a fix for this.

[courtland]

Yes, everything works great except for adding those attributes. I had a relatively easy time of migrating the syntax given your excellent documentation. There is another action that I use that doesn't require attributes in the action tag and I was able to get it to work.

For the moment I have downgraded back to savon 1.2 until we can add attributes to the action tag.

Thanks!

[rubiii]

pushed the local :attributes option to master. please give it a try:

attributes = { 'PosID' => 'ABC321', 'RoomID' => '128', 'Surname' => 'HERNANDEZ' }
client.call(:post_transaction, attributes: attributes)

[courtland]

Works great now. Thanks!

Can I expect this as an official gem anytime soon? If not I'll go ahead with just using master.

[rubiii]

it will be in the next release. i don't have a release date for this yet, but i'll keep you posted.

[courtland]

Sounds good. Thanks.

[amoludage]

@rubiii 👍