savon_mime_support_patch_example.rb

require 'rubygems'
require 'mail'
require 'savon'

# I needed to send "SOAP with Attachments" and found soap4r too horrible.
# Since I saw no support for it in Savon I tried to hack something together 
# to see if it could be done. I share that messy code here

# this is updated for Savon 0.8.1

module Savon
  module SOAP

    class Part < Mail::Part
      # placeholder for SOAP-sepcific improvements
    end

    class XML
      attr_accessor :parts_sort_order
      
      # adds a Part object to the current SOAP "message"
      # Parts are really attachments
      def add_part(part)
        @parts ||= Array.new
        @parts << part
      end
      # check if any parts have been added
      def has_parts?
        @parts ||= Array.new
        !@parts.empty?
      end

      # returns the mime message for a multipart request
      def request_message
        if @parts.empty?
          return nil
        end

        @request_message = Part.new do
          content_type 'multipart/related; type="text/xml"'
        end

        soap_body = self.to_xml
        soap_message = Part.new do
          content_type 'text/xml; charset=utf-8'
          add_content_transfer_encoding
          body soap_body
        end
        @request_message.add_part(soap_message)
        @parts.each do |part|
          @request_message.add_part(part)
        end
        #puts @request_message
        @request_message
      end

    end

    class Request

      def setup(request, soap)
        request.url = soap.endpoint

        if soap.has_parts? # do multipart stuff if soap has parts
          request_message = soap.request_message
          # takes relevant http headers from the "Mail" message and makes them Net::HTTP compatible
          request.headers["Content-Type"] ||= ContentType[soap.version]
          request.headers.delete "SOAPAction"
          request_message.header.fields.each do |field|
            request.headers[field.name] = field.to_s
          end
          request_message.body.set_sort_order soap.parts_sort_order if soap.parts_sort_order && soap.parts_sort_order.any?
          puts request.inspect
          request.body = request_message.body.encoded
        else
          request.headers["Content-Type"] ||= ContentType[soap.version]
          request.body = soap.to_xml
        end
        request
      end

    end
  end
end



# Usage Example

my_header = {'myns:SomeHeader' => 'Some Header Data'}
my_body = {
  'myns:SomeBodyTag' => 'Some Body Data',
  'myns:Attachment' => 'attachment_name.jpg'
}

mime_attachment = Savon::Part.new do
  content_type 'image/jpeg'
  cid= 'attachment_name.jpg' # this should work...
  body File.read('path/to/an/image.jpg').force_encoding("BINARY")
end
# ...but this is needed for a working cid
mime_attachment.add_content_id 'attachment_name.jpg'

soapclient = Savon::Client.new do
  wsdl.endpoint = "http://example.com/api/soap"
  wsdl.namespace = "http://example.com/some/namespace"
  http.auth.basic 'uname', 'pass' # if you are allowed to post attachments you are likely to need a login
end

response = soapclient.request :myns, :example_action, 'xmlns:mm7'=>'http://example.com/some/namespace2' do
  soap.namespaces["xmlns:mm7"] = "http://example.com/some/namespace"
  soap.header = my_header
  soap.body = my_body
  soap.add_part(mime_attachment)
end


# results:
=begin

----==_mimepart_4ca34d61dbe3f_7d880445d4c280f3 
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:29:54 +0200 
Message-ID: <4ca34d626abd2_7d880445d4c28299@localhost> 
Mime-Version: 1.0 
Content-Type: text/xml; 
 charset=utf-8 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 
Content-ID: <4ca34d6269827_7d880445d4c28127@localhost> 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:wsdl="http://example.com/some/namespace"><env:Header><myns:SomeHeader>Some Header Data</myns:SomeHeader></env:Header><env:Body><myns:exampleAction><myns:SomeBodyTag>Some Body Data</myns:SomeBodyTag><myns:Attachment>attachment_name.jpg</myns:Attachment></myns:exampleAction></env:Body></env:Envelope> 

----==_mimepart_4ca34d61dbe3f_7d880445d4c280f3 
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:29:54 +0200 
Message-ID: <4ca34d626d11a_7d880445d4c28477@localhost> 
Mime-Version: 1.0 
Content-Type: image/jpeg; 
 charset=UTF-8 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 
Content-ID: <attachment_name.jpg> 

/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAgEBLAEsAAD/4RLmRXhpZgAATU0AKgAAAAgABwESAAMA 
AAABAAEAAAEaAAUAAAABAAAAYgEbAAUAAAABAAAAagEoAAMAAAABAAIAAAEx 
AAIAAAAeAAAAcgEyAAIAAAAUAAAAkIdpAAQAAAABAAAApAAAANAALcbAAAAn 
... and so on until... 
+7FWs2XxbwP3ZuLeB+7FWstftD5jNxbwP3Zaq3IbHqO2BX//2Q== 


----==_mimepart_4ca34d61dbe3f_7d880445d4c280f3--

=end

I am investigating MTOM for savon, thanks for posting your code.

This code its too old, but there is a new PR for savon on: savonrb/savon#761