Question

I need to send a XML file using POST to a web service. I have a client application that creates a XML file which stores all the information required to send to the web application, but I am not sure how to go about sending it.

My XML looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<Comment>
  <Poll_ID>2</Poll_ID>
  <Name>wpoon</Name>
  <Text>asdasdas</Text>
  <Timestamp>2012-10-14T10:30:25</Timestamp>
</Comment>

And the RESTful service I will be sending it to has the URL:

http://localhost:8080/TESTINGrestful/rest/polls/comment

Could anyone advise me how to do this, any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

There’s a good example here from Apache HttpClient:

DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost("http://localhost:8080/TESTINGrestful/rest/polls/comment");
StringEntity input = new StringEntity("<Comment>...</Comment>");
input.setContentType("text/xml");
postRequest.setEntity(input);
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(postRequest);