CRUD objects in a DigiTool repository

gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: utf-8

# please install these gems
require 'nokogiri'
require 'savon'

# define wsdl connection
client = Savon::Client.new do
  wsdl.document = ""
end

# auth
general1 = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
  xml.general("xmlns:xb"=>"http://com/exlibris/digitool/repository/api/xmlbeans") {
    xml.parent.namespace = xml.parent.namespace_definitions.find{|ns|ns.prefix=="xb"}
    xml.application { xml.parent.namespace = nil; xml.text "someapp" }
    xml.owner { xml.parent.namespace = nil; xml.text "noowner" }
    xml.interface_version { xml.parent.namespace = nil; xml.text "1.0" }
    xml.user { xml.parent.namespace = nil; xml.text "random:person" }
    xml.password { xml.parent.namespace = nil; xml.text "mypass" }
  }
end.to_xml

# query command
query1 = Nokogiri::XML::Builder.new do |xml|
  xml.digital_entity_call("xmlns:xb"=>"http://com/exlibris/digitool/repository/api/xmlbeans") {
    xml.parent.namespace = xml.parent.namespace_definitions.find{|ns|ns.prefix=="xb"}
    xml.digital_entity { xml.pid { xml.parent.namespace = nil; xml.text "98081" } }
    xml.command { xml.parent.namespace = nil; xml.text "delete" }
  }
end.to_xml

# perform SOAP request
response = client.request :api, :digital_entity_call, "env:encodingStyle" => "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" do
  soap.namespaces["xmlns:api"] = "http://api.repository.digitool.exlibris.com"
  xdoc = Nokogiri::XML::DocumentFragment.parse ""
  Nokogiri::XML::Builder.with(xdoc) do |xml|
    xml.general("xsi:type" => "soapenc:string", "xmlns:soapenc" => "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/") { xml.cdata general1 }
    xml.query("xsi:type" => "soapenc:string", "xmlns:soapenc" => "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/") { xml.cdata query1 }
  end
  soap.body = xdoc
end

puts response.to_hash