Question

I want to make a post request in Scala to this API http://api.atinternet-solutions.com/toolbox/reporting.asmx
I first did it with a curl like this :

curl -X POST -T post.txt -H "Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8" http://api.atinternet-solutions.com/toolbox/reporting.asmx -v 

and I got what I expected.

Now I want to call the API programatically with a simple HttpClient

val httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient()
def postRequest=new HttpPost("https://api.atinternet-solutions.com/toolbox/reporting.asmx")
postRequest.addHeader("Content-Type","application/soap+xml ; charset=utf-8")
postRequest.addHeader("SOAPAction","\"http://www.xiti.com/queryReport\"")
val file=new File("post.txt")
val fe=new FileEntity(file,"application/soap+xml;charset=utf-8")
postRequest.setEntity(fe)
val httpResponse=httpClient.execute(postRequest)
println(httpResponse.getStatusLine.toString)
val rspStr=Source.createBufferedSource(httpResponse.getEntity.getContent).mkString
println(rspStr)

but I get an HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
and printing the rspStr yields

"?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><soap:Fault><soap:Code><soap:Value>soap:Receiver</soap:Value></soap:Code><soap:Reason><soap:Text xml:lang="en">Server was unable to process request. ---&gt; Root element is missing.</soap:Text></soap:Reason><soap:Detail /></soap:Fault></soap:Body></soap:Envelope"

The post.txt looks like below, except I set the good information instead.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope">
  <soap12:Header>
    <NXHeader xmlns="http://www.xiti.com/">
      <GUID>string</GUID>
      <SecurityKey>string</SecurityKey>
      <Site>int</Site>
    </NXHeader>
  </soap12:Header>
  <soap12:Body>
    <queryReport xmlns="http://www.xiti.com/">
      <startDate>int</startDate>
      <endDate>int</endDate>
      <query>string</query>
      <param>string</param>
      <typereport>XML or CSV</typereport>
    </queryReport>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>

The curl action which is working is done from my scala project directory. I printed post.txt in scala and got the good content.

I cannot figure out what is going wrong. Thank you for your help

Answer 1

I found what was going wrong.
Replace

def postRequest 

by

val postRequest.

Tks again