Funny, I just stumbled upon it while estimating a project today :) Note that Smooks can't be embedded in OFBiz due to a license issue: http://www.smooks.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Licensing
Jacques On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 9:24 PM Fairuz Wan Ismail <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use Smooks to deal with conversion xml -> Java objects when consuming a > webservice. Hope it helps. > > Regards, > Fairuz > > -----Original Message----- > From: jadelomeiri [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 12:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: calling external SOAP service from Ofbiz > > Hello, > > This is the solution I finally got. I hope it will be helpful for people > having the same problem as I had. > > 1) In my events java class I wrote the following code (which is an event > calling the method that deals with SOAP): > > * > public static String callMySoap(HttpServletRequest > request,HttpServletResponse response) > { > request.setAttribute("_EVENT_MESSAGE_", "You received this SOAP > response:" + MySoapClient()); > return "success"; > } > > > > public static SOAPMessage MySoapClient() > { > try { > // Create SOAP Connection > SOAPConnectionFactory soapConnectionFactory = > SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance(); > SOAPConnection soapConnection = > soapConnectionFactory.createConnection(); > > // Send SOAP Message to SOAP Server > String url = "http://www.webservicex.net/geoipservice.asmx";; > SOAPMessage soapResponse = > soapConnection.call(createSOAPRequest(), url); > > soapConnection.close(); > return soapResponse; > } catch (Exception e) { > System.err.println("Error occurred while sending SOAP Request to > Server"); > e.printStackTrace(); > return null; > } > > } > > private static SOAPMessage createSOAPRequest() throws Exception { > MessageFactory messageFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance(); > SOAPMessage soapMessage = messageFactory.createMessage(); > SOAPPart soapPart = soapMessage.getSOAPPart(); > > String serverURI = "http://www.webservicex.net/";; > > // SOAP Envelope > SOAPEnvelope envelope = soapPart.getEnvelope(); > envelope.addNamespaceDeclaration("web", serverURI); > > /* > Constructed SOAP Request Message: > <SOAP-ENV:Envelope > xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; > xmlns:example="http://www.webservicex.net/";> > <SOAP-ENV:Header/> > <SOAP-ENV:Body> > <web:GetGeoIP> > <web:IPAddressl>192.168.1.2</web:IPAddress> > </web:GetGeoIP> > </SOAP-ENV:Body> > </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> > */ > > // SOAP Body > SOAPBody soapBody = envelope.getBody(); > SOAPElement soapBodyElem = soapBody.addChildElement("GetGeoIP", > "web"); > SOAPElement soapBodyElem1 = > soapBodyElem.addChildElement("IPAddress", "web"); > soapBodyElem1.addTextNode("192.168.1.2"); > > > MimeHeaders headers = soapMessage.getMimeHeaders(); > headers.addHeader("SOAPAction", serverURI + "GetGeoIP"); > > soapMessage.saveChanges(); > > /* Print the request message */ > System.out.print("Request SOAP Message = "); > soapMessage.writeTo(System.out); > System.out.println(); > > return soapMessage; > } > * > > 2) I added the following request-map to point to my event: > > * > <request-map uri="callMySoap"> > <event type="java" path="org.ofbiz.testapp.testapp.LearningEvents" > invoke="callMySoap"/> > <response name="success" type="view" value="FeedbackMessages"/> > </request-map> > * > > 3) I added the following view-map: > > * > <view-map name="FeedbackMessages" type="screen" > page="component://testapp/widget/TestAppScreens.xml#FeedbackMessages"/> > * > > which points to the following screen widget: > * > <screen name="FeedbackMessages"> > <section> > <widgets> > <decorator-screen name="main-decorator" > location="${parameters.mainDecoratorLocation}"> > <decorator-section name="title"> > <label text="Exploring all placeholders for Feedback"/> > </decorator-section> > <decorator-section name="body"> > > </decorator-section> > </decorator-screen> > </widgets> > </section> > </screen> > * > > > Note: > step 3 is not necessary. I only used it to see something on my screen. > > > Result: > I can now see in real time the SOAP message that is being sent & the > response that is received. > and I can also this screen: > <http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/file/n4646047/result.png> > > > Now: > the only thing I still need to do is some parsing on the SOAP response > message to be able to deal with the variables that interest me in that > message. I also need to enhance my code to make it more "generic" so that it > becomes somewhat dynamic and works with not only that specific Web Service > that I had to hardcode. > > Do you have any suggestions for that? I do not want to be reinventing the > wheel!
