How to call a SOAP webservice with a simple String (xml in string format)

Question

I have this string representing a XML:

String soapCall=\"

        

Answer 1

Formatted answer :


import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;

/**
 * * This program demonstrates consuming web service using Apache HTTPClient and
 * SOAP message. * Reference:
 * http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx?op=GetQuote * ClassPath: Keep these
 * two files in class path: commons-httpclient-3.0.1.jar, commons-codec-1.4.jar * @author
 * Bhavani P Polimetla * @since April-27-2011
 */
public class WSClient {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
        httpClient.getParams().setParameter("http.useragent",
                "Web Service Test Client");
        BufferedReader br = null;
        String data = " "
                + "   "
                + "     "
                + "       "
                + "INFY     " + "   "
                + " ";
        PostMethod methodPost = new PostMethod(
                "http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx?op=GetQuote");
        methodPost.setRequestBody(data);
        methodPost.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml");
        try {
            int returnCode = httpClient.executeMethod(methodPost);
            if (returnCode == HttpStatus.SC_NOT_IMPLEMENTED) {
                System.out
                        .println("The Post method is not implemented by this URI");
                methodPost.getResponseBodyAsString();
            } else {
                br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                        methodPost.getResponseBodyAsStream()));
                String readLine;
                while (((readLine = br.readLine()) != null)) {
                    System.out.println(readLine);
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            methodPost.releaseConnection();
            if (br != null)             try {
                    br.close();
                } catch (Exception fe) {
                    fe.printStackTrace();
                }
        }
    }
}