Design question: working with data from external source

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Hello,

Could someone give an idea to Rails newbie? I've a need to do a SOAP query against remote server in my RoR application. As result of SOAP query array of strings (or hash)will be returned. But the question: how do I pass this array/hash to View if I'm doing SOAP call from the Controller? Or Controller isn't a good place for external call code?

Regards, Artem

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What do you want to do with the data that you get from the SOAP query?

It depends what librar(ies) you're using to get the SOAP data.

The best thing is to get the results, and use some breakpointer code,
and inspect the result of the SOAP query and see what type of object
and what messages you can send it.

Julian.

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I'm using SOAP4R (ver 1.5.8) as interface and Hpricot to parse the server response (the server responds with data in XML format). So I'll have a number String values as result of parsing data, which I need represent the data received from server as table in certain view.

Julian Leviston wrote:

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Okay. You sound like you know what's going on then.

Julian.

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You do it in the same way that you'd do it if it were data from an ActiveRecord model:

@results = ...SOAP4R results....