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Using a WSDL File to Make SOAP Calls Easier (written by Kevin Marshall)
CodeExpectedActual
require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
wsdl = 'http://services.xmethods.net/soap/urn:xmethods-delayed-quotes.wsdl'
driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
puts "Stock price: %.2f" % driver.getQuote('TR')
 
Stock price: 28.78
 
Stock price: 29.27
 
require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
wsdl = 'http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl'
driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
my_google_key = 'get yours from https://www.google.com/accounts'
my_query = 'WSDL Ruby'
XSD::Charset.encoding = 'UTF8'
result = driver.doGoogleSearch(my_google_key, my_query, 0, 10, false, 
                               '', false, '', '', '')
result.class
 SOAP::Mapping::Object NilClass 
(result.methods - SOAP::Mapping::Object.instance_methods).sort
 ["directoryCategories", "directoryCategories=", "documentFiltering", ["&", "^", "to_f", "to_i", "|"] 
"Query for: #{my_query}"
 "Query for: WSDL Ruby" "Query for: WSDL Ruby" 
"Found: #{result['estimatedTotalResultsCount']}"
 
"Found: 159000"
 
Error! (Exception?) Here's stdout:
NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
	from (irb):16

"Query took about %.2f seconds" % result['searchTime']
 
"Query took about 0.05 seconds"
 
Error! (Exception?) Here's stdout:
NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
	from (irb):17

result["resultElements"].each do |rec|
  puts "Title: #{rec["title"]}"
  puts "URL: #{rec["URL"]}"
  puts "Snippet: #{rec["snippet"]}"
  puts
end
 
Title: <b>wsdl</b>: <b>Ruby</b> Standard Library Documentation
URL: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/wsdl/rdoc/index.html
Snippet: #<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb705f560>

Title: how to make SOAP4R read <b>WSDL</b> files?
URL: http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/37623
Snippet: Subject: how to make SOAP4R read <b>WSDL</b> files? <b>...</b>
...
 
Error! (Exception?) Here's stdout:
NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass
	from (irb):18