Savon 0.7.0 comes with several changes to the public API. Pay attention to the CHANGELOG and the updated Wiki.
$ gem install savon
Savon expects you to be familiar with SOAP, WSDL and tools like soapUI.
Instantiate Savon::Client, passing in the WSDL of your service.
client = Savon::Client.new "https://example.com/UserService?wsdl"
More information: Client
Assuming your service applies to the defaults, you can now call any available SOAP action.
response = client.get_all_users
Savon lets you call SOAP actions using snake_case, because even though they will propably be written in lowerCamelCase or CamelCase, it just feels much more natural.
Savon::WSDL represents the WSDL of your service, including information like the namespace URI and available SOAP actions.
client.wsdl.soap_actions
=> [:get_all_users, :get_user_by_id, :user_magic]
More information: WSDL
Savon::SOAP represents the SOAP request. Pass a block to your SOAP call and the SOAP object is passed to it as the first argument. The object allows setting the SOAP version, header, body and namespaces per request.
response = client.get_user_by_id { |soap| soap.body = { :id => 666 } }
More information: SOAP
Savon::WSSE represents WSSE authentication. Pass a block to your SOAP call and the WSSE object is passed to it as the second argument. The object allows setting the WSSE username, password and whether to use digest authentication.
response = client.get_user_by_id do |soap, wsse|
wsse.username = "gorilla"
wsse.password = "secret"
soap.body = { :id => 666 }
end
More information: WSSE
Savon::Response represents the HTTP and SOAP response. It contains and raises errors in case of an HTTP error or SOAP fault (unless disabled). Also you can get the response as XML (for parsing it with an XML library) or translated into a Hash.
More information: Response
Savon raises a Savon::SOAPFault in case of a SOAP fault and a Savon::HTTPError in case of an HTTP error.
More information: Errors
Savon logs each request and response to STDOUT. But there are a couple of options to change the default behavior.
More information: Logging