Question

In my case, I have a soap response which has an “ArrayOfArrayOfString” type of values stored in it.

It is like an Array A[4][4].

A[0][0] -> ServiceId

A[0][1] -> ServiceName

A[0][2] -> ServiceImageURL

A[0][3] -> ServiceDecription

A[0][4] -> ServiceIconURL

and its all same upto A[4][4].

How can I handle this type of response in android?

Code is something like:

SoapObject request = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE, METHOD_NAME);        

        SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);
        envelope.dotNet = true;

        envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);

        HttpTransportSE transportSE = new HttpTransportSE(URL);
        transportSE.debug = true;

                                            Log.i("WebService", "msg:try_out");
    String[] columns = null;

    ArrayList<String> rows = new ArrayList<String>();

    try
    {
                                                    Log.i("WebService", "msg:try+in");
        transportSE.call(SOAP_ACTION, envelope);                            
                                                    Log.i("WebService", "msg:SoapObject");


        SoapObject response = (SoapObject)envelope.getResponse();           

                                                    Log.i("WebService", "Response");

try
            {
                // WhaT SHOULD I USE HERE to convert it to 2D Array//
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                e.printStackTrace();
                Log.v("CATCH BLOCK", e.getMessage());
            }
}
        catch (Exception e) 
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            Log.i("WebService", "msg:Exception error");
            Log.i("WebSerivce", e.getMessage());
            return e.getMessage();
        }

Please help me regarding this.

Answer 1

This is the perfect working code to parse the complex data…

I am only doing this for A[0][1-4] and according to my soap response modify the code according to ur soap response.

SoapObject result = (SoapObject)enevlop.getResponse();

            String str = result.getProperty(0).toString();
            // add a for loop for ur code and iterate it according to ur soap response and get all the node using getProperty(i);

            String str1 = lameParser(str);

            textView.setText(""+str1);

Now define lameParser() method:-

    public String lameParser(String input){

    String sName=input.substring(input.indexOf("sName=")+6, input.indexOf(";", input.indexOf("sName=")));

    int IGoals=Integer.valueOf(input.substring(input.indexOf("iGoals=")+7, input.indexOf(";", input.indexOf("iGoals="))));

    String sCountry=input.substring(input.indexOf("sCountry=")+9, input.indexOf(";", input.indexOf("sCountry=")));

    String sFlag=input.substring(input.indexOf("sFlag=")+6, input.indexOf(";", input.indexOf("sFlag=")));

    return sName+"\n"+Integer.toString(IGoals)+"\n"+sCountry+"\n"+sFlag;
 }