[LRUG] example SOAP api to use as part of upcoming lrug talk

[James Darling]

Last year I worked with dxw on the Workday (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workday,_Inc.) SOAP API for the Crown
Commercial Service. The source code is open if anyone wants to see our
solution:
https://github.com/dxw/DataSubmissionServiceAPI/tree/develop/app/models/workday

This taught me that not all SOAP APIs are particularly strict at following
standards, so in this case, finding a library that helps manage the cruft,
but also allows you to dig into the XML to tweak it is helpful.

Overall, I would not describe it as an enjoyable experience, so if anyone
else needs to integrate their ruby app with Workday, then I can help, but I
will add some £ onto my day rate ;-)



On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 09:49, Samuel Joseph <tansaku at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow, thanks everyone!  This has been super helpful.  Interesting to see
> that there are actually quite a lot of active SOAP systems out there.
>
> I think I might try Chris' suggestion of the Charity Commission SOAP API
> as I've done some work in that space, so big thanks to Chris, but also to
> everyone for all the suggestions.  Hopefully in my talk I can highlight one
> particular gotcha that can occur when using Savon in a client gem to
> process a SOAP APIs, and how to use the debugger to uncover it.  Even if
> not an everyday bug I hope I can show how valuable something like byebug
> can be in dealing with tricky bugs.
>
> Looking forward to seeing you all on May 11th :-)
>
> Best, Sam
> On 25/04/2020 23:29, Andi Studer wrote:
>
> Hi Sam,
> Sonos Music API is built on SOAP
> https://musicpartners.sonos.com/?q=node/442
> At NTS, we've built a service integrating with it, but used Node.js, not
> Ruby.
> Andi
>
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, 16:05 Alex Balhatchet, <alex at balhatchet.net> wrote:
>
>> Hey Sam,
>>
>> My most recent experience with SOAP was with Magento.
>>
>> https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/m1x/api/soap/introduction.html
>>
>> You could try this really old VirtualBox image -
>>
>> https://community.bitnami.com/t/looking-for-magento-1-9-x-virtualbox-image/45811
>>
>>
>> It was a few years ago now but I think Magento 1.9 was the last one with
>> a SOAP API.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> - Alex
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 17:43, Samuel Joseph <tansaku at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Hope everyone is keeping safe and well.
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a free to use SOAP api to use as part of my upcoming
>>> ruby talk.  I'm trying to recreate a complex bug we had with some
>>> proprietary code and APIs - if anyone knows of any reliable SOAP
>>> endpoints (I know, SOAP, legacy, sigh) that I could use I'm all ears :-)
>>>
>>> I guess if I can't find a reliable one I'll fake one with VCR ...
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Best, Sam
>>>
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