Question

I am using KSOAP2 to call a .NET webservice from android application,and the response from the web service is in the following format

anyType{
UserName=anyType{}; 
Password=anyType{}; 
ApplicationCode=JOB; 
ActionType=Query; 
MessageParameters=anyType{Parameters=anyType{}; }; 
TableData=anyType{TableNo=167; 
          TableName=Job; 
      DataRows=
      anyType{
        DataRow=
          anyType{
             DataRowValues=
            anyType{
                DataRowValue=
                anyType{
                    FieldNo=1; 
                    FieldName=No.; 
                    PrimaryKey=true; 
                    FieldType=Code20; DataValue=DEERFIELD, 8 WP; 
                       };
               DataRowValue=
                anyType
                       {
                    FieldNo=3; 
                    FieldName=Description; 
                    PrimaryKey=false; 
                    FieldType=Text50; 
                    DataValue=Setting up Eight Work Areas; 
                       };
             DataRowValue=
                anyType
                       {
                    FieldNo=4; 
                    FieldName=Description 2; 
                    PrimaryKey=false; 
                    FieldType=Text50; 
                    DataValue=anyType{}; 
                       }; 
                }; 
              }; 
           }; 
       }; 
    }; 
 ResponseForRequest=GETTABLEDATA; 
 CustomIdentifier=TestBB; 
Applications=anyType{}; 
Forms=anyType{}; 
Menu=anyType{}; 
}

I am not aware about the format of this response and i don’t know how to parse this response to get particular result.Any one knows about it please help me.

Note: i manually formatted this response for your understanding.

Answer 1

Actually this a known format if you know Java Script.These data in this format are infact JSON Object‘s and JSON Array‘s. I hope you are using the KSOAP2 library.So here is how you can parse this result.

eg:

private Bundle bundleResult=new Bundle();
private JSONObject JSONObj;
private JSONArray JSONArr;
Private SoapObject resultSOAP = (SoapObject) envelope.getResponse();
/* gets our result in JSON String */
private String ResultObject = resultSOAP.getProperty(0).toString();

if (ResultObject.startsWith("{")) { // if JSON string is an object
    JSONObj = new JSONObject(ResultObject);
    Iterator<String> itr = JSONObj.keys();
    while (itr.hasNext()) {
        String Key = (String) itr.next();
        String Value = JSONObj.getString(Key);
        bundleResult.putString(Key, Value);
        // System.out.println(bundleResult.getString(Key));
    }
} else if (ResultObject.startsWith("[")) { // if JSON string is an array
    JSONArr = new JSONArray(ResultObject);
    System.out.println("length" + JSONArr.length());
    for (int i = 0; i < JSONArr.length(); i++) {
        JSONObj = (JSONObject) JSONArr.get(i);
        bundleResult.putString(String.valueOf(i), JSONObj.toString());
        // System.out.println(bundleResult.getString(i));
    } 
}

Initially i had a lot of trouble with this kind of data but finally i got it all working.From then I have been using this.I hope this helps you solve your problem.