Re: Sending XML From client to service through HTTP GET

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:27:26 -0700

Anantkumar wrote: 
  

No, I wanted to send it as entity(payload) in Request, 
but any good solution
which satisfy my requirement I will do that.
--Anant--
woudl the folloing work?

PostMethod method = new PostMethod(url);        

    method.setDoAuthentication( true );

 

    String helloWorld = new String(new Base64().encode("Hello, World!".getBytes()));

    XMLDocument xmlDocument = new XMLDocument().addElement(new XML("mail")

      ..addElement(new XML("documents")

        ..addElement(new XML("document")

          ..addElement(new XML("type").addElement("txt"))

          ..addElement(new XML("content").addElement(helloWorld))

        )

      )       

      ..addElement(new XML("addressees")

        ..addElement(new XML("addressee")

          ..addElement(new XML("name").addElement("Christopher Robin"))

          ..addElement(new XML("address").addElement("1234 Main St."))

          ..addElement(new XML("city").addElement("Kenosha"))

          ..addElement(new XML("state").addElement("WI"))

          ..addElement(new XML("postal-code").addElement("53140"))

        )

      )

    );

              

    RequestEntity entity = new StringRequestEntity(xmlDocument.toString());

    method.setRequestEntity(entity);

 

    try {

      int result = client.executeMethod(method);

      System.out.println("Response status code: " + result);

      if(result == 422) {

        InputStream responseBody = method.getResponseBodyAsStream();

        DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();

        DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();

        Document document = documentBuilder.parse(responseBody);                   

        XPath xpath = XPathFactory.newInstance().newXPath();

        NodeList errors = (NodeList)xpath.evaluate("/errors/error", document, XPathConstants.NODESET);

        for(int i = 0; i < errors.getLength(); i++) {

          Node error = errors.item(i);

          if(error.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {

            System.out.println(error.getTextContent());                                    

          }                   

        }             

      } else if(result == 201) {             

        System.out.println(method.getResponseHeader("Location"));                  

      }

    } finally {

      method.releaseConnection();

    }

  }


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