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Sam Ruby (a smart honest guy with a big heart who is overworked): On SOAP-bashing. [The following example] is not only WSDL compliant and but it also actually works with the live Google server.

<SOAP:Envelope
 xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <SOAP:Body>
    <gs:doGoogleSearch xmlns:gs="urn:GoogleSearch">
      <key>00000000000000000000000000000000</key>
      <q>absurd obfuscation</q>
      <start>0</start>
      <maxResults>10</maxResults>
      <filter>true</filter>
      <restrict/>
      <safeSearch>false</safeSearch>
      <lr/>
      <ie>latin1</ie>
      <oe>latin1</oe>
    </gs:doGoogleSearch>
  </SOAP:Body>
</SOAP:Envelope>

Sam asks for someone to run the same search through the XML-RPC Google gateway. Here is a working request generated by a modified version of xmlrpclib.py, hacked to produce optimized output. (Don’t specify string datatype; use short form for empty XML tags.) Please note that the XML-RPC gateway is missing one parameter (filter, for filtering out duplicate pages), so the number of parameters doesn’t match the SOAP call.

<methodCall>
  <methodName>googleGateway.search</methodName>
  <params>
    <param>
      <value>absurd obfuscation</value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value>
        <int>0</int>
      </value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value>
        <int>10</int>
      </value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value/>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value/>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value>
        <boolean>0</boolean>
      </value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value>latin1</value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value>latin1</value>
    </param>
    <param>
      <value>00000000000000000000000000000000</value>
    </param>
  </params>
</methodCall>

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