[Rails] [ANN] WebserviceHelper

[leon breedt]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:34:06 +0100, Pelle Braendgaard <pelleb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very cool stuff. I will probably use this to add SOAP support for
> http://soapbx.com
Hi,

Just a FYI,

At the suggestion of Tobias Luetke, I'm going to be generalizing this
somewhat, in the hope that it will be useful for Rails itself (I
didn't know web services was one of the 1.0 goals).

This probably means your API object is going to derive from something
like ActionService::Base instead of extending WebService.

Also, you're going to be able to defer creation of the API object
until much later:

class ApiController < ApplicationController
   interface :person { PersonApi.new(@something) }
end

The block you pass will be instance_evaled in the controller itself,
so it will have access to any variables set up by your filters, for
example.

Also, XML-RPC support is coming. XML-RPC will most likely work without
any additional requirements. I.e. the URL the SOAP messages are POSTed
to will be the same as the one that XML-RPC methods are POSTed to, as
I can look for SOAPAction HTTP headers to figure out which is which.

Those are the major changes I see happening. But what you have now
should tide you over until then...

Leon