Fakeweb + soap4r + RSpec

[zilkey]

I'm trying to get Fakeweb to intercept all of my soap4r calls in
rspec. I've got a spec that looks like this (pseudo code):

require File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../
spec_helper')
require 'fakeweb'

describe MySoap4RClass do
before do
@credentials = SomeCredentials.new(:username =>
"foo", :password => "bar")
end

it "should intercept all calls to soap4r" do
FakeWeb.allow_net_connect = false
VerticalResponseProvider.vr_login(@credentials)
end
end

I would expect to get a NetConnectNotAllowed error, but instead it
does the network call and gives me the actual web service error.

Is there a way to intercept all HTTP calls from within soap4r? I'm
using the soap4r gem, v 1.5.8 and the fakeweb gem, v 1.2.3

Thanks,

Jeff

[Matt Patterson]

On 31 May 2009, at 21:37, zilkey wrote:

> I would expect to get a NetConnectNotAllowed error, but instead it
> does the network call and gives me the actual web service error.
>
> Is there a way to intercept all HTTP calls from within soap4r? I'm
> using the soap4r gem, v 1.5.8 and the fakeweb gem, v 1.2.3

If soap4r uses Net::HTTP then it should Just Work. I haven't looked at
soap4r's internals in a long time, but the last time I did it was
painful. I wouldn't be at all surprised if it just makes socket calls,
but I also wouldn't be surprised if some require arcana is going on
which breaks fakeweb - a version of soap4r is in the standard library,
and installing the gem broke Irb.

I guess I'm saying you'll need to dig into the internals, but I'd try
it without the soap4r gem too.

Matt

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[Chris Kampmeier]

On May 31, 1:37 pm, zilkey <j...@zilkey.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to intercept all HTTP calls from within soap4r?  I'm
> using the soap4r gem, v 1.5.8 and the fakeweb gem, v 1.2.3

I took a look at soap4r's source just now, and it looks like it's
using httpclient, which is an alternative to Net::HTTP. So FakeWeb
won't be able to stub out those requests, since it works by changing
the internals of Net::HTTP.

However! Michael Shapiro has a fork on github that has support for
both Net::HTTP and httpclient. I haven't had time to fully review his
changes, yet, and they're based on an older version of FakeWeb, but
hey -- if you're interested, give it a try and let me know how it
works out. http://github.com/koudelka/fakeweb/commit/f98f40261517a7d80d13b09a13ebd1f796825090

In general, I'd love to get a multi-adapter thing going on. There are
a few really interesting alternatives out there, like curb, typhoeus,
etc.

Chris

[Jeff Dean]

Awesome - I'll check it out. Thanks.

[Dr Nic Williams]

Do we need "One HTTP Adapter To Rule Them All"?

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