Adding attributes to the SOAP Body's root element

[andrewmbenton]

My problem is that i need to put some attributes on the "root" element within the SOAP body, so I need something that looks like:
env:Body
<wsdl:someRequest attr1="val1" attr2="val2">
...
/wsdl:someRequest
/env:Body
Right now the savon api only allows a single element tag name assigned to the input instance variable of the soap object, as in:
response = @savon_client.some_request! do |req|
req.namespace = @namespace
req.action = "someRequest"
req.input = "someRequest"
end
Seems like the most elegant fix might be to expose a little more of the underlying Builder::XmlMarkup object for those who require more flexibility than a simple hash can provide.

[andrewmbenton]

Since this issue was brought up under a different thread (Issue #7) I'm splitting it off here, along with my proposed solution and the link to my fork.

[andrewmbenton]

OK here's the commit from my fork (turned out to be a one line edit to the input_array method): http://github.com/stanleydrew/savon/commit/86d06e216f5c9fdde8a33ad0666db1929fe8a8c1
Now you can do the following:
soap.input = "someRequest", {"someAttribute"=>"someValue", ...}
to get:
soap:Body
<wsdl:someRequest someAttribute="someValue" ...>
...
/wsdl:someRequest
/soap:Body
This way the Savon api doesn't change. You can still assign a single string to soap.input. There's just added functionality now.

[rubiii]

thanks! merged your commit into the dev branch: http://github.com/rubiii/savon/commit/64a78c00760c123b65a0528c4d67772f398d368f - will be included in the next release.

[andrewmbenton]

great to hear! looking forward to the new release.

[rubiii]

released version 0.7.3 including a patch for this issue.