ws_discovery¶ ↑

• Homepage

• WS-Discovery 1.0 Specification

• SOAP-over-UDP Specification

This gem aims to provide the ability to search for WS-Discovery compatible target services.

This uses EventMachine, so if you’re not already, getting familiar with its concepts will be helpful here.

• Search for WS-Discovery compatible target services.

A WS-Discovery search simply sends the probe out to the multicast group and listens for responses for a given (or default of 5 seconds) amount of time. The return from this depends on if you’re running it within an EventMachine reactor or not. If not, it returns an Array of responses as WSDiscovery::Responses. Take a look at the WSDiscovery#search docs for more on the options here.

require 'ws_discovery'

# Search for all devices (do a probe with Types left unspecified)
all_devices = WSDiscovery.search                         # this is default

# Search for devices of a specific Type
network_video_transmitters = WSDiscovery.search(
  env_namespaces: { "xmlns:dn" => "http://www.onvif.org/ver10/network/wsdl" },
  types: "dn:NetworkVideoTransmitter")

# These searches will return an Array of WSDiscovery::Responses.  See the
# WSDiscovery::Response documentation for more information.

If you do the search inside of an EventMachine reactor, as the WSDiscovery::Searcher receives and parses responses, it adds them to the accessor #discovery_responses, which is an EventMachine::Channel. This lets you subscribe to the responses and do what you want with them.

• Ruby

  • 1.9.3

• Gems

  • builder

  • eventmachine

  • log_switch

  • nokogiri

  • nori

  • uuid

• Gems (development)

  • bundler

  • rake

  • rspec

  • simplecov

  • simplecov-rcov

  • yard

$ gem install ws_discovery

The initial core of this gem came from github.com/turboladen/upnp due to the similarities in how SSDP and WS-Discovery searches are performed.

The WSDiscovery::Response class reuses parts of github.com/savonrb/savon. It made sense to me that WSDiscovery::Responses would behave similarly to Savon::SOAP::Responses.