[Rails] ActionWebService Struct member name including '-'

[Kent Sibilev]

AWS requires all struct's members to be a valid ruby identifier.

On 7/28/06, Andrew Knott <aknott at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am tryng to mirror a locked away, secure web service for testing
> purposes and am almost there. Hoever as part of the definition for the
> structure of the call to the webservice, I have this struct.
>
> class MyCall < ActionWebService::Struct
>     member :username, :string
>     member :password, :string
>     member :"remote-ip", :string
> end
>
> However this does not work... Should :"remote-ip" be a valid member
> name?
>
> I get the following syntax error
>
> SyntaxError ((eval):1:in `member': compile error
> (eval):1: parse error, unexpected '-', expecting '\n' or ';'
>           def remote-ip; @remote-ip; end
>
> I can make the call OK (as below)
>
> server = XMLRPC::Client.new2("http://127.0.0.1:3001/api/checkNumber")
> result = server.call("IsValid",
> {:username=>"user",:password=>"pass",:"remote-ip"=>request.remote_ip}, at formattedNumber)
>
> You will notice I have to use :"remote-ip" instead of :remote-ip. This
> is because of the '-'. The XML is sent  perfectly fine and I can see the
> remote-ip in the sent XML, but it's NOT in the raw posted information.
>
> Web Service Request: IsValid(param0=>#<MyCall:0x2414e90
> @password="pass", @username="user">, number=>"+00000000")
>
>
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