Question about soap/wsdlDriver

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My *guess* is that soap/wsdlDriver is being overzealous with a camelCase
naming convention and automatically converts all the methods to match
that convention. Arguably a bug, or a feature. I don't see it
documented either way in the source. In fact, I don't see any
documentation at all in the source. :frowning:

Regards,

Dan

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-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Long [mailto:robothor@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 12:47 PM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Question about soap/wsdlDriver

Hi all,

I ran into an oddity the other day as I was chunking through
pickaxe. I checked google, but did not see this specific problem,
nor did I see it in the errata for the book.

I am doing the Google query example, and can run the query no
problem. I get back a result set as I expect. E.g. the first
element of a search for "ruby":
    irb(main):020:0> p result.resultElements[0]
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0eec0
    {}URL="http://www.ruby-lang.org/&quot; {}cachedSize="18k"
    {}directoryCategory=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0ea10
    {}fullViewableName=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0e858>
    {}specialEncoding=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0e5b0>>
    {}directoryTitle=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0e1c8>
    {}hostName=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0xb0df0c>
    {}relatedInformationPresent="true" {}snippet="Interpreted,
dynamically typed, pure
    object-oriented, scripting language for<br> fast, easy
programming, from Japan. Simple,
    straightforward, extensible." {}summary=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:
0xb0d8cc>
    {}title="<b>Ruby</b>-lang.org"> => nil

but, if I do the following, I get an error:

     irb(main):021:0> p result.resultElements[0].URL
     NoMethodError: undefined method `URL' for
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x161dd80>
             from (irb):21

The strangeness is that URL, is defined, but the accessor was
renamed
to "uRL":

     irb(main):022:0> p result.resultElements[0].methods.sort
     [... "uRL", "uRL=", ...]
     => nil

So using uRL instead of URL "fixes" the example in the book
     irb(main):023:0> p result.resultElements[0].uRL
     "http://www.ruby-lang.org/&quot;
     => nil

Is this something specific to my environment, or is there
something I
missed in some documentation somewhere?

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Thanks, that is what I thought. Or it is trying to avoid creation of what appear to be constants. It must have changed some of that behavior since the book was written.

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On 8 May , 2006, at 2:57 PM, Berger, Daniel wrote:

My *guess* is that soap/wsdlDriver is being overzealous with a camelCase
naming convention and automatically converts all the methods to match
that convention. Arguably a bug, or a feature. I don't see it
documented either way in the source. In fact, I don't see any
documentation at all in the source. :frowning:

Regards,

Dan

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