Ruby Soap XML-RPC call very slow !

Question

Hi everybody, I am using the Soap RPC lib to connect 1 client to 1 server (in different PC on the same network)

in the server:

require "soap/rpc/standaloneServer"
...
class SyncServer < SOAP::RPC::StandaloneServer    
  def initialize(*args)
    super
    add_method(self, 'remote_method')
  end
end

in the client:

driver = SOAP::RPC::Driverha.new('http://' + ADDRESS + ':' + PORT, 'urn:soap_string')
driver.add_method('remote_method')

The call of remote_method perfectly works, but it takes a long time: more than 10 seconds !

Do you have any ideas of the cause of this slowness ?

I tried to exec both client and server on the same PC (linux ubuntu installed) but with the same result (too many seconds)

Any suggestion will be welcome :)

Thank you, Alessandro DS

Answer 1

I think it is downloading the WSDL file ti create the drivers every time. You can download the file yourself, and use wsdl2ruby to generate the driver classes. It will then be much faster.