Talking with a SOAP service using Savon gem in Ruby

Question

I'm trying to communicate with a soap service and I know that I should send a SOAP Envelope like this:

POST /webpay_test/SveaWebPay.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: webservices.sveaekonomi.se
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "https://webservices.sveaekonomi.se/webpay/CreateOrder"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <CreateOrder xmlns="https://webservices.sveaekonomi.se/webpay">
      <request>
        <Order>
          <ClientOrderNr>string</ClientOrderNr>
          <CustomerReference>string</CustomerReference>
          <OrderDate>dateTime</OrderDate>
          <CountryCode>string</CountryCode>
          <SecurityNumber>string</SecurityNumber>
          <CustomerEmail>string</CustomerEmail>
          <IsCompany>boolean</IsCompany>
          <PreApprovedCustomerId>long</PreApprovedCustomerId>
          <AddressSelector>string</AddressSelector>
        </Order>
        <InvoiceRows>
          <ClientInvoiceRowInfo>
            <ArticleNr>string</ArticleNr>
            <Description>string</Description>
            <PricePerUnit>double</PricePerUnit>
            <NrOfUnits>double</NrOfUnits>
            <Unit>string</Unit>
            <VatPercent>int</VatPercent>
            <DiscountPercent>int</DiscountPercent>
            <ClientOrderRowNr>int</ClientOrderRowNr>
          </ClientInvoiceRowInfo>
          <ClientInvoiceRowInfo>
            <ArticleNr>string</ArticleNr>
            <Description>string</Description>
            <PricePerUnit>double</PricePerUnit>
            <NrOfUnits>double</NrOfUnits>
            <Unit>string</Unit>
            <VatPercent>int</VatPercent>
            <DiscountPercent>int</DiscountPercent>
            <ClientOrderRowNr>int</ClientOrderRowNr>
          </ClientInvoiceRowInfo>
        </InvoiceRows>
      </request>
    </CreateOrder>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

here is the code I've wrote:

client = Savon::Client.new("https://webservices.sveaekonomi.se/webpay_test/SveaWebPay.asmx?wsdl")
res = client.create_order do |soap|  
    soap.namespace = "https://webservices.sveaekonomi.se/webpay_test/CreateOrder.asmx"
    soap.body = { :auth         => {  :username => "username", :password => "pass", :client_number => "1111" }, 
                  :order        => {  :client_order_nr => "1000000", :customer_reference => "4212", :order_date => Date.today, 
                                      :country_code => "SE", :security_number => "1111111111", :is_company => false, 
                                      :customer_email => "[email protected]", :pre_approved_customer_id => 0 },
                  :invoice_rows => { :client_invoice_row_info => { :article_nr => "x100", :description => "something cool -- description",
                                      :price_per_unit => 100, :nr_of_units => 3, :unit => "SEK", :vat_percent => 25,
                                      :discount_percent => 0, :client_order_row_nr => "1"},
                                     :client_invoice_row_info => { :article_nr => "x200", :description => "something cooler -- description",
                                      :price_per_unit => 200, :nr_of_units => 2, :unit => "SEK", :vat_percent => 25,
                                      :discount_percent => 0, :client_order_row_nr => "1" }  
                                   }
    }
end

and it generates this, which is different from what I have as the template and that's why I'm getting an error:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><env:Envelope xmlns:wsdl="https://webservices.sveaekonomi.se/webpay_test/CreateOrder.asmx" xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<env:Body>
<wsdl:CreateOrder>
<invoiceRows>
  <clientInvoiceRowInfo>
    <clientOrderRowNr>1</clientOrderRowNr>
    <pricePerUnit>200</pricePerUnit>
    <nrOfUnits>2</nrOfUnits>
    <unit>SEK</unit>
    <vatPercent>25</vatPercent>
    <articleNr>x200</articleNr>
    <discountPercent>0</discountPercent>
    <description>something cooler -- description</description>
  </clientInvoiceRowInfo>
</invoiceRows>
<order>
    <customerEmail>[email protected]</customerEmail>
    <preApprovedCustomerId>0</preApprovedCustomerId>
    <countryCode>SE</countryCode>
    <clientOrderNr>1000000</clientOrderNr>
    <securityNumber>11111111</securityNumber>
    <customerReference>4212</customerReference>
    <isCompany>false</isCompany>
    <orderDate>2010-06-28</orderDate>
</order>
<auth>
    <password>pass</password>
    <clientNumber>1111</clientNumber>
    <username>username</username>
</auth>
</wsdl:CreateOrder>
</env:Body>
</env:Envelope>

and here is the response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <soap:Body>
    <CreateOrderResponse xmlns="https://webservices.sveaekonomi.se/webpay">
      <CreateOrderResult>
        <Accepted>false</Accepted>
        <ErrorMessage>Failed to create or authorize order</ErrorMessage>
        <SveaOrderNr>0</SveaOrderNr>
        <RejectionCode>Error</RejectionCode>
        <WillBuyInvoices xsi:nil="true" />
        <AuthorizeId>0</AuthorizeId>
        <AuthorizedAmount xsi:nil="true" />
        <ExpirationDate xsi:nil="true" />
      </CreateOrderResult>
    </CreateOrderResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

could anyone tell me how can I solve this problem. and since I'm a newbie when it comes to SOAP would you also tell me if the order of the xml tags in the soap:Body tag is important or not?

Answer 1

Thanks to Steve, I found "Why is “wsdl” namespace interjected into action name when using savon for ruby soap communication?" where Nick and Steve were talking about a similar problem.

Like Nick, my problem was in the way Savon is cooking up a SOAP envelope. As recommended by Nick, I ended up monkey patching a couple of methods in the Savon SOAP class. It's in lib/savon/soap.rb and I'm good to go now.

I'm a novice when it comes to SOAP and it's my first time writing a SOAP client, but honestly it SUCKS! I still remember my first time writing a client for a REST service and gosh it was fun.

REST ROCKS, SOAP SUCKS. that's all!