I think the problem is that WSDL2Java can't anticipate how you're planning
to use the XML that's returned. Anyway, it's easy enough to get the entire
body of a SOAP message returned by some service. Attached is an example
client that does this. Instantiate the service with a String that holds
the XML of the message you want to send to the service; then run
makeCall(). It returns a String representation of the SOAP body returned.
Andrew
At 04:17 PM 4/30/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>So what you are suggesting is to forget about all the beans and just
>extract the XML from the SOAP envelope?
>
>But wouldn't it be better if WSDL2Java would generate this code? It seems
>simple enough.
>Or is the .NET way not standard enough to it that way?
>
>-Tako
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: St-Germain, Sylvain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: dinsdag 30 april 2002 16:06
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: RE: How to retrieve an XML document from a service?
> >
> >
> >
> > After you made your call you can get to the SOAP envelope using:
> >
> > service.getCall().getResponseMessage().getSOAPPart()
> >
> > Sylvain.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tako Schotanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 5:20 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: How to retrieve an XML document from a service?
> >
> >
> > I used WSDL2Java to generate some code for a .NET web service
> > that returns
> > an XML document as a result.
> > After inspecting the code I noticed that all XML document
> > results had been
> > converted to Beans.
> >
> > Can somebody point me in the direction I should go to get
> > from a Bean to the
> > original XML document?
> > Is this bean stuff even necessary or is it just the code
> > generator that
> > doesn't know how to handle .NET XML document types and turns
> > everything
> > unknown into beans?
> >
> > I did find the info about the ElementDeserializer, but
> > couldn't figure out
> > how to use them.
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated :-)
> >
> > -Tako
> >
> >
> > Tako Schotanus
> > Chief Software Architect
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import org.apache.axis.client.Service;
import org.apache.axis.client.Call;
import org.apache.axis.message.SOAPBodyElement;
import org.apache.axis.utils.Options;
import org.apache.axis.utils.XMLUtils;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Vector ;
import java.io.*;
public class DocumentClient {
private String bodyxml;
public String makeCall() throws Exception {
Options opts = new Options(new String[] {});
opts.setDefaultURL("http://localhost:8000/axis/services/myService";);
Service service = new Service();
Call call = (Call) service.createCall();
call.setTargetEndpointAddress( new URL(opts.getURL()) );
SOAPBodyElement[] input = new SOAPBodyElement[1];
InputStream inp = new ByteArrayInputStream(bodyxml.getBytes("ISO-8859-1"));
Document bodyDOM = XMLUtils.newDocument(inp);
Element bodyElement = bodyDOM.getDocumentElement();
SOAPBodyElement sbe = new SOAPBodyElement(bodyElement);
sbe.setNamespaceURI("foo");
input[0] = sbe;
Vector elems = (Vector) call.invoke( input );
SOAPBodyElement elem = null ;
Element e = null ;
if(elems != null && elems.size() > 0){
elem = (SOAPBodyElement) elems.get(0);
e = elem.getAsDOM();
}
String str = XMLUtils.ElementToString(e);
return( str );
}
public DocumentClient(String text) throws Exception {
bodyxml = text;
}
}
