Re: HTTPAPI and Webservices

hi Robert,

Yes, I think you're right, Robert. For example, if your XML currently looks like this:

<myXML>Data</myXML>

then in a wrapped SOAP message it'd look something like this:

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope";
xmlns:tns="urn:WellingtonRoyceXmlWrapper">
<soap:Body>
<tns:YourRequest>
<tns:Data>&lt;myXML&gt;Data&lt;/myXML&gt;</tns:Data>
</tns:YourRequest>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Granted, I made up some of the names ("YourRequest", "Data", the TNS namespace) but that's the general idea. The original XML is escaped into character entities and placed in a parameter of a SOAP message.

It shouldn't be hard to build this message in an RPG program, and send it via HTTPAPI. The hardest part will be escaping the existing XML data -- but it shouldn't be too bad. If you can't figure it out, let me know.

When the output message is sent back, you can use HTTPAPI's XML parser to extract the original XML data -- it'll automatically "unescape" it for you.

-SK


On 12/20/2012 11:53 AM, Robert J. Mullis wrote:

Thanks Scott.

My XML will stay the same. It is "wrapped" in a SOAP message for the web
service. If I understand everything correctly, I should still be able to
use my same HTTP process that I am using now. The only difference is that I
will need to "wrap" the XML in a SOAP message, before sending it. When the
XML is returned, I will need to remove the SOAP message "wrapper", before I
can parse the XML. Is my assumption correct?