Erik,

You asked:

Are you trying to post and XML document? Is that the functionality you are missing?

In one case, yes. It happens that one gateway formats its payment request and
payment-response records as xml. The payment request is sent as a form post, and
the response is another xml message, presumably accessible to java via an input stream on a URLConnection.


Also, although I'm new to this payment gateway scene, I expect that there are
gateways out there that use proprietary, non-xml syntax for their request and
response messages.


Naturally, for gateways that offer a web-service, OXF already has a solution.

Clarification Of the Requirement
--------------------------------

Thinking as I type, the functionality I am missing could be provided by
a generator that

   * posts a text message (or the text of an xml document) to a
     specified webserver
   * waits for the server to respond
   * captures the response from the http server as an xml document,
   * outputs the document to the pipeline.

The message to be sent (for non xml payment requests) would be an
xml doc on the config input of the processor, formatted as follows:

<http-request>
<url>http://someserver</url>
<content>rquest-string</content>
</http-response>


or, for a gateway that uses xml formatting, something like the following

<http-request>
<url>http://someserver</url>
<content> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TranxRequest>
<MerchantNumber></MerchantNumber>
<Products></Products>
<xxxCard_Number></xxxCard_Number>
<xxxCCMonth></xxxCCMonth>
<xxxCCYear></xxxCCYear>
<CVV2></CVV2>
<CVV2Indicator></CVV2Indicator>
<xxxName></xxxName>
<xxxAddress></xxxAddress>
<xxxCity></xxxCity>
<xxxProvince></xxxProvince>
<xxxPostal></xxxPostal>
<xxxCountry></xxxCountry>
<xxxPhone></xxxPhone>
<xxxEmail></xxxEmail>
</TranxRequest>
</content>
</http-response>


The format of the returned xml response document would be

<http-response>
   <mime-type/>
   <content/>
</http-response>

A hypothetical example response document, generated for a non-xml response,
using positional arguments, would be

<http-response>
   <mime-type>text/plain</mime-type>
   <content>10339, 224, a496, John Smith, 2004/10/10, Visa, OK</content>
</http-response>

The same response from a gateway using xml formats would be

<http-response>
<mime-type>text/plain</mime-type>
<content>
<transaction-response>
<merchant-number>10339</merchant-number>
<receipt-number>224</receipt-number>
<sales-order-number>a496</sales-order-number>
<name>John Smith</name>
<date>2004/10/10</date>
<card-type>Visa</card-type>
<approval-code>OK</approval-code>
</transaction-response>
</content> </http-response>


Alternatives
------------

OK, that's one way to contact a payment gateway webserver.
But before I vanish into hacking out the processor described
above, or wrap some http tunnel code I already have as a
session ejb to be invoked via the delegation processor, is
there an existing approach to accomplishing this with OXF?

Bill.

Bill,

Are you trying to post an XML document? Is that the functionality you are missing?

-Erik

Bill Winspur wrote:

Are there any examples of issuing http requests to another site,
waiting for the response, and delivering it via a request generator. ?

The delegate processor looks close, but it seems to deal only with soap messaging.

I need to talk to a non-soap payment gateway.

Perhaps I'll have to wrap this in a session ejb, but OXF seems to have
everything else. I suspect I've missed an existing capability.

--
Bill Winspur
Manager, Wynnon Systems Inc
Mobile: 403-519-5889



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