Savon, XML, SOAP help...

[Allen Maxwell]

Hi All,

I’m working on a quick project to fix an issue in an old legacy system which handles buying domains using a Godaddy reseller API.  

I haven’t done much with XML but I seem to be wading through Nokogiri without too much trouble.  I have done no SOAP before and I’m new to SAVON.

I have been able to connect to the server and authenticate.  I’ve also been able to run some simple commands.  So I’m getting there… I have a question that maybe someone can help me with:

let’s assume the SOAP request is supposed to look like this:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:web="http://wildwestdomains.com/webservices/">

   <soapenv:Header/>

   <soapenv:Body>

      <web:CheckAvailability>

         <!--Optional:-->

         <web:sCLTRID>a_guid_i_made</web:sCLTRID>

         <!--Optional:-->

         <web:credential>

            <!--Optional:-->

            <web:Account>myaccount_number</web:Account>

            <!--Optional:-->

            <web:Password>my_password</web:Password>

         </web:credential>

         <!--Optional:-->

         <web:sDomainArray>

            <!--Zero or more repetitions:-->

            <web:string>mystupidmaxwellsite.com</web:string>

            <web:string>example.biz</web:string>

         </web:sDomainArray>

         <!--Optional:-->

         

      </web:CheckAvailability>

   </soapenv:Body>

</soapenv:Envelope>

I’m using the SAVON gem and here’s some code that works for a describe method call…

require 'savon'
require 'securerandom'
require 'nokogiri'



guid = SecureRandom.uuid


@ote_wsdle = "https://api.ote.wildwestdomains.com/wswwdapi/wapi.asmx?wsdl"
@prod_wsdle = "https://api.wildwestdomains.com/wswwdapi/wapi.asmx?wsdl"
creds = { 'Account' => “myacctnum", 'Password' => “my password" }
@url = '173.201.195.69'

client = Savon.client(wsdl: @ote_wsdle,
                      pretty_print_xml: true)

cred_hash ={"sCLTRID": guid, :credential => creds }
response = client.call(:describe, message: cred_hash)

unless response.success?
  puts "\n\n******************\nFAILED: #{response.to_hash}\n******************\n\n\n"
  exit
end

puts "Describe is ok..."

————————— end of code

In the SOAP example above there is this section:

         <web:sDomainArray>

            <!--Zero or more repetitions:-->

            <web:string>mystupidmaxwellsite.com</web:string>

            <web:string>example.biz</web:string>

         </web:sDomainArray>

it calls for “zero or more repetitions” for basically an array of sites to check…  I tried this:

@sites_to_check = [‘example.us’, ‘example.biz’, ‘asitenoonewouldusesdflkjsdflsj.com']

msg_hash = cred_hash
msg_hash["sDomainArray"] = [{string: @sites_to_check[0]}, {string: @sites_to_check[1]}, {string: @sites_to_check[2]}]
response = client.call(:check_availability, message: msg_hash)

———  end code

this seems to process the first site but none of the others in the array.  How should I code this where I need to send an array under the sDomainArray key?  

any ideas would be helpful… and thanks!

Max