Question

I am tasked to create a simple tool, invoking a specific, SOAP-based web service.

I am new to Java Spring Framework and Web services in general. I have been reading up on both for a while now.

So far, I am able to invoke a method, which does not have parameters and get back the result, but I hav trouble adding parameters to the request.

Code so far:

String msg = "<methodname xmlns=\"http://www.namespace.com/\">" +
                        "<param1>TEST</param1>"+
                        "<param2>TEST</param2>"+
                 "</methodname>";
    ApplicationContext appCon = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("appCon.xml");
    BeeSmartSpringConnector bee = (BeeSmartSpringConnector) appCon.getBean("BeeSmartConnector");
    bee.setDefaultUri("http://127.0.0.1:85/WebServices/TestBean?wsdl");
    bee.simpleSendAndReceive(msg);

As a result, the webservice returns the message:

Required parameter not found! --> Parameters : param1="null", param2="null"

According to the WSDL-file those two parameters are exactly what the method needs.

Can you please tell what I did wrong? Maybe wrong formatting of request?

Answer 1

How about setting msg as…

String msg = "<ns:methodname xmlns:ns=\"http://www.namespace.com/\">" +
                        "<param1>TEST</param1>"+
                        "<param2>TEST</param2>"+
                 "</ns:methodname>";