如何解析来自 ruby​​ 客户端的 SOAP 响应？

我正在学习 Ruby，并且编写了以下代码来了解如何使用 SOAP 服务：

require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
wsdl="http://www.abundanttech.com/webservices/deadoralive/deadoralive.wsdl"
service=SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
weather=service.getTodaysBirthdays('1/26/2010')

我得到的回复是：

#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac3714 
{http://www.abundanttech.com/webservices/deadoralive} getTodaysBirthdaysResult=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac34a8 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}schema=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac3214 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}element=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac2f6c 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}complexType=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac2cc4 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}choice=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac2a1c 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}element=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac2774 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}complexType=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac24cc 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}sequence=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac2224 
{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}element=[#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac1f7c>, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac13ec>, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac0a28>, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac0078>, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80abf6c8>, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80abed18>]
>>>>>>> {urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-diffgram-v1}diffgram=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80abe6c4 
{}NewDataSet=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac1220 
{}Table=[#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80ac75e4 
{}FullName="Cully,  Zara" 
{}BirthDate="01/26/1892" 
{}DeathDate="02/28/1979" 
{}Age="(87)" 
{}KnownFor="The Jeffersons" 
{}DeadOrAlive="Dead">, 
#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80b778f4 
{}FullName="Feiffer, Jules" 
{}BirthDate="01/26/1929" 
{}DeathDate=#<SOAP::Mapping::Object:0x80c7eaf4> 
{}Age="81" 
{}KnownFor="Cartoonists" 
{}DeadOrAlive="Alive">]>>>>

我很难弄清楚如何在一个漂亮的表格中解析和显示返回的信息，甚至如何循环记录并访问每个元素（即全名、年龄等）。我浏览了整个“getTodaysBirthdaysResult.methods - Object.new.methods”，并继续努力尝试找出如何访问元素，但后来我到达数组时却迷路了。

任何可以提供的帮助将不胜感激。

如果您无论如何都要解析 XML，您不妨跳过 SOAP4r 并使用Handsoap http://github.com/unwire/handsoap。免责声明：我是《洗手液》的作者之一。

一个示例实现：

# wsdl: http://www.abundanttech.com/webservices/deadoralive/deadoralive.wsdl
DEADORALIVE_SERVICE_ENDPOINT = {
  :uri => 'http://www.abundanttech.com/WebServices/DeadOrAlive/DeadOrAlive.asmx',
  :version => 1
}

class DeadoraliveService < Handsoap::Service
  endpoint DEADORALIVE_SERVICE_ENDPOINT
  def on_create_document(doc)
    # register namespaces for the request
    doc.alias 'tns', 'http://www.abundanttech.com/webservices/deadoralive'
  end

  def on_response_document(doc)
    # register namespaces for the response
    doc.add_namespace 'ns', 'http://www.abundanttech.com/webservices/deadoralive'
  end

  # public methods

  def get_todays_birthdays
    soap_action = 'http://www.abundanttech.com/webservices/deadoralive/getTodaysBirthdays'
    response = invoke('tns:getTodaysBirthdays', soap_action)
    (response/"//NewDataSet/Table").map do |table|
      {
        :full_name => (table/"FullName").to_s,
        :birth_date => Date.strptime((table/"BirthDate").to_s, "%m/%d/%Y"),
        :death_date => Date.strptime((table/"DeathDate").to_s, "%m/%d/%Y"),
        :age => (table/"Age").to_s.gsub(/^\(([\d]+)\)$/, '\1').to_i,
        :known_for => (table/"KnownFor").to_s,
        :alive? => (table/"DeadOrAlive").to_s == "Alive"
      }
    end
  end
end

Usage:

DeadoraliveService.get_todays_birthdays