If you look at the code that I wrote to call flickr using Indigo, you’ll notice that the flickr API call accepts a string and returns a string. This makes it trivial for me to interop with Ruby:
require 'RubyShim'
require 'builder'
require 'builder/xmlmarkup'
require 'rexml/document'
reference_file 'flickrlib.dll'
include FlickrLib
include Builder
include REXML
f = Flickr.new('83293ff34e3ab3d9935018480190319f')
puts f.Call('<method>flickr.people.findByEmail</method>
<find_email>jlam@iunknown.com</find_email>')
# or if you prefer
xml = Builder::XmlMarkup.new
xml.method "flickr.people.findByEmail"
xml.find_email "jlam@iunknown.com"
d = Document.new(f.Call(xml.target!))
puts d.elements['//username'].textI’m not all that happy with sending mal-formed XML as an in-parameter, but it was a quick and easy hack to get it up and running.
