So this one solution is not more then building the xml doc posting it (HttpURLConnection)
Reading the response (soap envelope) & parse that (with dom or jdom etc..) InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(httpConn.getInputStream()); So no apache soap and stuff needed here ? This was my first approach I tried and this works .. See example http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-soapcl/listing1.html But I wasn't quite happy with this approach .. I thought Apache SOAP was more clean but so far parsing the response from the .NET service doesn't work .. Regards, Tom -----Original Message----- From: Erich Izdepski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: how to work with the response object ? Tom- there is RPC style SOAP and document style SOAP. RPC returns an object- that's just the way it works. Document style deals with passing XML documents around as SOAP input and output (not in apache, but in .net). There is an in-between approach that may be what you want. http://xml.apache.org/soap/features.html decribes an apache feature: "Literal XML encoding: allows one to send XML elements (DOM org.w3c.dom.Element objects) as parameters by embedding the literal XML serialization of the DOM tree. No code needs to be written to support this (see the addressbook demo to see a sample use of it)." Apache also supports message clients/services that can work with XML directly. See the user's guide for more. Here's an article that talks about the two styles: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/fe/xml/02/03/25/020325fejavatca.xml Erich Izdepski Senior Software Engineer Cysive, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Leuntjens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 2:50 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to work with the response object ? It took me a while to build a call that worked ... But now I don't know how to handle the response .. What is the easiest way to get the real response ? I mean, the response is XML right ? why can't I simple read it and parse it? I've tried different methods described in tutorials but I got the feeling that this is no standard response .. How do I proceed ? This is the response (if I intercept with TCPMON) > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope > xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";><soap:Header><Version > Identification="DATASWITCH" Major="2" Minor="3" Build="863" > Revision="14832" xmlns="http://xxx/core23"; > /></soap:Header><soap:Body><PingResponse > xmlns="http://xxx/core23";><PingResult > Code="OK"><Message>Pong.</Message></PingResult></PingResponse> > </soap:Bod > y></soap:Envelope> This is my code for the soap call What do I need to do after ? resp = call.invoke (url, SOAPAction); reading a printing the response value is simply empty ("") ... (which seems logical since it's a string representation) how to get it to XML ? .. URL url = new URL "http://www.xxx.be/service/dataswitch23.asmx";); String SOAPAction = "http://schemas.xxx.be/core23/Ping";; SOAPMappingRegistry smr = new SOAPMappingRegistry(); //BeanSerializer sd = new BeanSerializer (); StringDeserializer ss = new StringDeserializer(); XMlDeserializer xi = new XMlDeserializer(); smr.mapTypes(Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC, new QName("http://schemas.xxx.be/core23";, "PingResult"), null, null, xi); //smr.mapTypes(Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC, new QName("http://schemas.xxx.be/core23";, "Message"), null, null, ss); // create the transport and set parameters SOAPHTTPConnection st = new SOAPHTTPConnection(); st.setUserName("tom.leuntjens"); st.setPassword("xxx"); // create a non-validating, namespace aware doc-builder DocumentBuilder db = org.apache.soap.util.xml.XMLParserUtils.getXMLDocBuilder(); Document doc = db.newDocument(); // create header, declare namespace, add element to entries Header header = new Header(); Element version = doc.createElementNS("", "Version"); version.setAttribute("xmlns", "http://schemas.dataswitch.be/core23";); version.setAttribute("Identification", "SKARABEEPRO"); version.setAttribute("Major", "0"); version.setAttribute("Minor", "0"); version.setAttribute("Revision", "0"); version.setAttribute("Build", "0"); Vector entries = new Vector(); entries.addElement(version); // set the entries and header header.setHeaderEntries(entries); // build the call. Call call = new Call (); call.setSOAPTransport(st); call.setSOAPMappingRegistry (smr); call.setTargetObjectURI ("http://schemas.xxx.be/core23";); call.setMethodName("Ping"); call.setEncodingStyleURI ("Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC"); call.setHeader(header); Regards, Tom
