[MOBY-l] Ruby & MOBY

[Twigger Simon]

Is anyone doing any ruby with MOBY services? I saw a thread a while  
back that referred to a ruby API but google and other searches didnt  
throw any more light on the subject.

I tried a simple test the other day using bog standard ruby  
approaches to point to a moby service WSDL but got an error at the  
WSDL parsing stage. Here's what I tried:

moby_test.rb

require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
wsdl = 'http://bioinfo.icapture.ubc.ca:8090/mobyservices/services/ 
convertKeggGeneId2ProtId?wsdl'
driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver


 >ruby moby_test.rb
RuntimeError: part: data cannot be resolved

method rpcdefinedtype
in methodDefCreator.rb at line 144
method collect_rpcparameter
in methodDefCreator.rb at line 49
method collect_rpcparameter
in methodDefCreator.rb at line 47
method create_param_def
in wsdlDriver.rb at line 130
method add_operation
in wsdlDriver.rb at line 101
method each
in namedelements.rb at line 58
method each
in namedelements.rb at line 57
method add_operation
in wsdlDriver.rb at line 96
method create_rpc_driver
in wsdlDriver.rb at line 40
at top level
in moby_test_service.rb at line 6
Program exited.


To my eye the WSDL coming from the URL looks reasonable so Im not  
quite sure what is going wrong here. I've had this code work very  
nicely with non-moby services (see below) so I was hoping to be able  
to make my ruby connection to the mobysphere in a similar fashion.  
Can anyone who is more ruby or MOBY-WSDL savvy suggest what might be  
amiss?

Cheers!

	Simon.

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Working service call (non-moby)

require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
wsdl = 'http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/wsdl/WSDbfetch.wsdl'
driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
puts driver.getSupportedDBs()


this returns:

embl
emblsva
emblcon
emblanncon
emblcds
medline
pdb
refseq
refseqp
hgbase
interpro
uniprot
uniparc
uniref100
uniref90
uniref50
jpo_prt
epo_prt
uspto_prt
ipi


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Simon N. Twigger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
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