deserialization question

["Voigt, Ulrich" <Ul...@DDG.de>]

Hi!

I want to receive data, which is made available via SOAP. Unfortunately I
cannot access the SOAP-server directly (routing problems...), but I can get
the logs of continous http-SOAP-requests. Something like this:

POST /Services/inquireAll HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Length: 726
SOAPAction: Services#inquireAll

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
     .... application specific ....
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>


HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: xxx
Content-Type: text/xml; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Length: 5910
SOAPAction: Services#inquireAllResponse

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
    <inquireAllResponse>
      ... application specific ....
    </inquireAllResponse>
  </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>


I thought I could use the SOAP classes to deserialize the data out of the
response. But the classes I found in the org.apache.soap packages can only
be used, if you make a full http-SOAP request. 

Does anybody have an idea how to use the deserialize/unmarshalling mechanism
of SOAP without fulfill a complete SOAP-request?

thanks in advance
Ulrich

Re: deserialization question

[Scott Nichol <sn...@scottnichol.com>]

You are right: the deserialization classes are very dependent on other classes in the code.  You might be able to use them with some work, but I am not sure it would be worth it.

You might have better luck with some more general XML <-> Java technology, such as a JAXB implementation or even something like Castor.

Scott Nichol

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Voigt, Ulrich" <Ul...@DDG.de>
To: <so...@ws.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 9:24 AM
Subject: deserialization question


> Hi!
> 
> I want to receive data, which is made available via SOAP. Unfortunately I
> cannot access the SOAP-server directly (routing problems...), but I can get
> the logs of continous http-SOAP-requests. Something like this:
> 
> POST /Services/inquireAll HTTP/1.0
> Content-Type: text/xml; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Length: 726
> SOAPAction: Services#inquireAll
> 
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
>   <SOAP-ENV:Body>
>      .... application specific ....
>   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> 
> 
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Server: xxx
> Content-Type: text/xml; charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Length: 5910
> SOAPAction: Services#inquireAllResponse
> 
> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope
> xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
>   <SOAP-ENV:Body>
>     <inquireAllResponse>
>       ... application specific ....
>     </inquireAllResponse>
>   </SOAP-ENV:Body>
> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
> 
> 
> I thought I could use the SOAP classes to deserialize the data out of the
> response. But the classes I found in the org.apache.soap packages can only
> be used, if you make a full http-SOAP request. 
> 
> Does anybody have an idea how to use the deserialize/unmarshalling mechanism
> of SOAP without fulfill a complete SOAP-request?
> 
> thanks in advance
> Ulrich
> 
>