(Java) Simple SOAP Request

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Demonstrates how to send a simple SOAP request.

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import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Also see Chilkat's Online WSDL Code Generator
    // to generate code and SOAP Request and Response XML for each operation in a WSDL.
    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    // Create the following XML to be sent in the SOAP request body.

    // <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:dat="http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    //     <soapenv:Header/>
    //     <soapenv:Body>
    //         <dat:NumberToDollars>
    //             <dat:dNum>99.0</dat:dNum>
    //         </dat:NumberToDollars>
    //     </soapenv:Body>
    // </soapenv:Envelope>

    CkXml xml = new CkXml();
    xml.put_Tag("soapenv:Envelope");
    xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:dat","http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/");
    xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:soapenv","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
    xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Header","");
    xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Body|dat:NumberToDollars|dat:dNum","99.0");

    // In a SOAP HTTP request, including the XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>) in the XML body is generally not required. 
    xml.put_EmitXmlDecl(false);
    String soapRequestBody = xml.getXml();

    String endpoint = "https://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/numberconversion.wso";
    String soapAction = "";
    //  For SOAP requests, the standard Content-Type is usually set to "text/xml" or "application/soap+xml"
    String contentType = "text/xml";

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    http.ClearHeaders();
    http.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type",contentType);
    http.SetRequestHeader("SOAPAction",soapAction);

    CkHttpResponse resp = http.PostXml(endpoint,soapRequestBody,"utf-8");
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        System.out.println(http.lastErrorText());
        System.out.println("Failed to send SOAP request.");
        return;
        }

    // Get the XML response body.
    CkXml responseXml = new CkXml();
    resp.GetBodyXml(responseXml);

    int statusCode = resp.get_StatusCode();
    System.out.println("response status code: " + statusCode);

    // If the status code does not indicate succcess, then show the response XML,
    // which probably contains error information.
    if (statusCode != 200) {
        System.out.println(responseXml.getXml());
        return;
        }

    System.out.println(responseXml.getXml());

    // Parse the successful SOAP response XML.

    // This is a sample of the response XML, but the namespace prefixes will be different.
    // We can parse the result using "*" for the namespace prefixes (see below).

    // <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:dat="http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    //     <soapenv:Header/>
    //     <soapenv:Body>
    //         <dat:NumberToDollarsResponse>
    //             <dat:NumberToDollarsResult>string</dat:NumberToDollarsResult>
    //         </dat:NumberToDollarsResponse>
    //     </soapenv:Body>
    // </soapenv:Envelope>

    String dat_NumberToDollarsResult = responseXml.getChildContent("*:Body|*:NumberToDollarsResponse|*:NumberToDollarsResult");
    System.out.println("result: " + dat_NumberToDollarsResult);
  }
}