Question

I need to send 3 things from my app to a web service: username + password and a message which contains more XML.

request.addProperty("username", username);
request.addProperty("password", password);
request.addProperty("message", UitVoer); // uitvoer is a String that contains XML

I use the ksoap2 librabry which always worked great for android <-> web service, but atm I’m not sure if it still works for what I need.

When I check my envelope.bodyOut, all tags and < > signs look like they should.
But then I get an error message from the web service with the XML I sent, and it shows the HTML code for those signs.

Does ksoap2 replace the signs and should I use another way to send my stuff to the web service, or is there something wrong on the web service side?
(I have no control over the web service so I have no clue what it does on that side.)

Answer 1

This is how you build an xml request; hope this helps:)

DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();  
DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();  
Document document = documentBuilder.newDocument();  
Element rootElement = document.createElement("map");  
document.appendChild(rootElement);  

Element em = document.createElement("string");  
em.setAttribute("name", "FirstName");  
em.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Rita"));  
rootElement.appendChild(em);  

em = document.createElement("string");  
em.setAttribute("name", "LastName");  
em.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Roy"));  
rootElement.appendChild(em);  


TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
            Properties outFormat = new Properties();
            outFormat.setProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
            outFormat.setProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");
            outFormat.setProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "no");
            outFormat.setProperty(OutputKeys.VERSION, "1.0");
            outFormat.setProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");
            transformer.setOutputProperties(outFormat);
            DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(document.getDocumentElement());
            OutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            StreamResult result = new StreamResult(output);
            transformer.transform(domSource, result);
            strXMLInput = output.toString();