Create a SOAP Request Using KSOAP Android

Question

I need to create a soap request like this.

SOAP request

POST /TennisMasters/TennisMasters.Listener.asmx HTTP/1.1 Host: playinkstudio.com Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: length SOAPAction: "http://playinktennismasters.com/authenticateUser" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soap:Body> <authenticateUser xmlns="http://playinktennismasters.com/"> <user>string</user> </authenticateUser> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope> 

I am using KSOAP2 to create this request.

 private static String SOAP_ACTION = "http://playinktennismasters.com/authenticateUser"; private static String NAMESPACE = "http://playinktennismasters.com/"; private static String METHOD_NAME = "authenticateUser"; private static String URL = "http://playinkstudio.com/TennisMasters/TennisMasters.Listener.asmx"; SoapObject request = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE, METHOD_NAME); request.addProperty("user", "A Json String will be here"); SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope( SoapEnvelope.VER12); envelope.dotNet = true; envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request); HttpTransportSE androidHttpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(URL); androidHttpTransport.debug = true; try { androidHttpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION, envelope); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } 

This is the request I received from debugging.

 <v:Envelope xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:d="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:c="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-encoding" xmlns:v="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"> <v:Header /> <v:Body> <authenticateUser xmlns="http://playinktennismasters.com/" **id="o0" c:root="1"**> <user **i:type="d:string"**>{"email":" [e-mail] ","UserDate":"Feb 22, 2012 7:01:24 PM","GearId":0,"GearValue":0,"Income":0,"Level":0,"MatchResult":0,"MatchType":0,"OfferId":0,"OpponentId":0,"Partners":0,"ExhibitionCount":0,"PowerRuns":0,"PowerServes":0,"PowerShots":0,"Seeds":0,"Energy":0,"Cash":0,"Stamina":0,"Strength":0,"SubLevel":0,"TotalEnergy":0,"TotalStamina":0,"TrainingId":0,"Agility":0,"UserId":0,"Age":0,"ActivityId":0,"gearIsGift":0}</user> </authenticateUser> </v:Body> </v:Envelope> 

I do not know why additional attributes, such as "id" and "c: root", are added to authenticateUser. and an optional attribute in i: type = "d: String". Please can someone come along to give me a good example or tutorial that can help me create a query like the one above, really need help.

Answer 1

Finally, he worked with KSOAP. Here is the code I used, maybe this will help someone.

 final SoapObject request = new SoapObject(AppConsts.NAMESPACE, usecaseString); request.addProperty(addPropertyString, propertyJsonString); final SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope( SoapEnvelope.VER11); envelope.dotNet = true; envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request); final HttpTransportSE androidHttpTransport = new HttpTransportSE( AppConsts.URL); androidHttpTransport.debug = true; String soapAction = AppConsts.NAMESPACE + usecaseString; try { androidHttpTransport.call(soapAction, envelope); SoapPrimitive resultSoapPrimitive; resultSoapPrimitive = (SoapPrimitive) envelope.getResponse(); if (resultSoapPrimitive != null) { result = resultSoapPrimitive.toString(); if (AppConsts.ENABLE_LOG) Log.d(AppConsts.GAME_TITLE, "result json : " + result); } else { if (AppConsts.ENABLE_LOG) Log.d(AppConsts.GAME_TITLE, "result json is NULL!!! "); } } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); Log.e("static", "Exception in making call to server"); } 

To create the above request, these three parameters must be passed to the code.

  AppConsts.NAMESPACE = "http://playinktennismasters.com" usecaseString = "authenticateUser" addPropertyString = "user" 

Answer 2

I used simple HttpClient and Httppost, Simple string for Envelope request.

  String temp = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>" + "<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">" + "<soap:Body>" + "<authenticateUser xmlns=\"http://playinktennismasters.com/\">" + "<user>%s</user>" + "</authenticateUser>" + "</soap:Body>" + "</soap:Envelope>"; ENVELOPE = String.format(temp, user); 

Now, using a method that will create the remaining parameters after the request and return a response string.

 public String CallWebService(String url, String soapAction, String envelope) { final DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(); // request parameters HttpParams params = httpClient.getParams(); HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(params, 10000); HttpConnectionParams.setSoTimeout(params, 15000); // set parameter HttpProtocolParams.setUseExpectContinue(httpClient.getParams(), true); // POST the envelope HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url); // add headers httppost.setHeader("soapaction", soapAction); httppost.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8"); String responseString = "Nothingggg"; try { // the entity holds the request HttpEntity entity = new StringEntity(envelope); httppost.setEntity(entity); // Response handler ResponseHandler<String> rh = new ResponseHandler<String>() { // invoked when client receives response public String handleResponse(HttpResponse response) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException { // get response entity HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); // read the response as byte array StringBuffer out = new StringBuffer(); byte[] b = EntityUtils.toByteArray(entity); // write the response byte array to a string buffer out.append(new String(b, 0, b.length)); return out.toString(); } }; responseString = httpClient.execute(httppost, rh); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); Log.d("me","Exc : "+ e.toString()); } // close the connection httpClient.getConnectionManager().shutdown(); return responseString; } 

Answer 3

to remove ec: root identifiers, false attributes are assigned:

 envelope.setAddAdornments(false); 

to remove the i: type attribute for SimpleTypes, set the implicit types to true

 envelope.implicitTypes = true; 

but when working with ComplexTypes, to remove "i: type", you will need ksoap 3.0.0 RC1 or higher. Im using 3.0.0 RC2 by now, but I am upgrading to stable version 3.0.0 when it becomes available.