I will answer this by myself after playing around.
It was in my case very straight forward using HttpURLConnection for
the connection and SAXParser for handling the result. I have stripped
out my details from the parser.
The solution is fast and works on both simulator and uploaded on GAE.
/Ulrik
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;
public class XmlRpcHandler {
public MyData callRpc() throws Exception {
String message = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"?
><methodCall><methodName>MyRpcMethod</
methodName><params><param><value><string>myparamstring</string></
value></param></params></methodCall>";
URL url = new URL("http://www.myserver.se/RPC2";);
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)
url.openConnection
();
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
// Password handling, in my case MyPassword consisted of the
string base64(user:password)
connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic
MyPassword");
OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter
(connection.getOutputStream());
writer.write(message);
writer.close();
// Parse response xml
InputStream in = connection.getInputStream();
InputSource responseXML = new InputSource(in);
DefaultHandler myHandler = new DefaultHandler() {
public void startElement(String uri, String localName,
String
qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
// Parser logic
}
public void characters(char [] buf, int offset, int
len) {
String s = (new String(buf, offset,
len)).trim();
// Parser logic, build mydata
}
};
SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
try {
SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();
parser.parse(responseXML, myHandler);
} finally {
in.close();
}
int res = connection.getResponseCode();
if (res != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
throw new Exception("HTTP POST did not respond with OK,
code:" +
res);
}
return mydata;
}
}
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