Ruby Savon : How to get the request text sent to server?

Question

Hi I'm using Savon to access some web services.

I'm using this code:

client=Savon.client(
    wsdl: "WebService.wsdl",
    env_namespace: "S",
    convert_request_keys_to: :camelcase
)

response=client.call(:send_doc)  do
    message(
      Attr1: "123",
      Attr2: "ABC")
    )

How do I get the request text sent to server?

Regards Fak

sschmeck · Answer 1 · 2016-07-08T06:26:29.353

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Savon 2 provides an Observer interface. You can register an Observer which is notified before the request is send. The interface contains a Builder object where you find the XML content of the request. Builder#pretty() formats the XML content.

class Observer
  def notify(_, builder, _, _)
    puts builder.pretty
    nil
  end
end

Savon.observers << Observer.new

Alternativly you can add log: true to your client configuration. It enables the logging of the requests.

client = Savon.client(log: true, ...)

edited Jul 08 '16 at 06:26

answered Jul 08 '16 at 06:21

sschmeck

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`log: true` is the easiest solution. Thanks for this! I couldn't find it in the documentation. – hcarreras Oct 05 '17 at 11:56

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

This isn't possible with stable versions of Savon. However, you can get the request using version 3 of Savon (see the Savon website for installation instructions and more detail). Example from the site:

client = Savon.new('http://example.com?wsdl')
operation = client.operation(service_name, port_name, operation_name)
operation.build # returns SOAP request

You could also monkeypatch Savon methods or set up a custom debugger to get this information with your current Savon version. See these StackOverflow answers for more information:

Ruby Savon : How to get the request text sent to server?

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