Enabling gzip Compression with SOAP4R

It's a one-liner, but info isn't easy to find (as usual with soap4r).

When you generate your local driver with for example

wsdl2ruby.rb --wsdl MyService.wsdl --classdef MyService --type client --force

and you instantiate your proxy driver like so

ms = MyService.new  
ms.wiredump_dev = STDERR

you simply add

ms.streamhandler.accept_encoding_gzip = true

That's all. No need for custom headers etc.

And: zlib (compression library used by soap4r) is built into Ruby since version 1.8. No need for any gems or other shenenigans.

As an added year-end bonus, here's a list of links that helped me with SOAP and ruby over the years:

Excellent SAP article:

Correct usage of wsdl2ruby (must be wsdl2ruby.rb)

ActionWebService:

Links:

WSDL/Ruby:

Very Helpful Detailed Article:

xsltproc examples:

xsd2wsdl:

linked from here:

Don’t forget to enable wiredump:

fe.wiredump_dev = STDERR

Get rid of NS1:

Posted: 30 December 2010