Hi I am investigating using the Flickr API with axis SOAP and am still at an early stage. My first block is this The flickr API asks for a different version of the soap-envelope to that generated by Axis, but generates correct Schema and Schema instance. Is this my problem? Am I doing this the hard way, or should I be able to do this easier with my own wsdl file and if so how would this look? Is axis the right tool to use or should I go with apache SOAP or java Webservices sdk?
Here is the example flickr SOAP request The SOAP Server Endpoint URL is http://www.flickr.com/services/soap/ To request the flickr.echo service, send an envelope like this: <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://www.w3.org/2001/06/soap-envelope"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance"; xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"; > <s:Body> <x:FlickrRequest xmlns:x="urn:flickr"> <method>flickr.echo</method> <name>value</name> </x:FlickrRequest> </s:Body> </s:Envelope> Here is the documentation for the test.echo Flickr API Documentation spacer image flickr.test.echo A testing method which echo's all paramaters back in the response. Arguments api_key (Required) You API application key. See here for more details. Example Response <method>echo</method> <foo>bar</foo> Error Codes 100: Invalid API Key The API key passed was not valid or has expired. Here is my code package thehallfamily.soap; import java.net.URL; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.soap.SOAPBody; import org.apache.axis.client.Call; import org.apache.axis.client.Service; import org.apache.axis.message.SOAPBodyElement; import org.apache.axis.soap.SOAPConstants; import org.apache.axis.message.SOAPEnvelope; import org.apache.axis.utils.XMLUtils; import org.apache.axis.schema.SchemaVersion; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.utils.NameSpace; /** * @author keith * * TODO To change the template for this generated type comment go to * Window - Preferences - Java - Code Style - Code Templates */ public class SoapConnector { public static String doit() throws Exception { //Create a call Service service = new Service(); Call call = (Call) service.createCall(); call.setTargetEndpointAddress( new URL("http://www.flickr.com/services/soap/";) ); DocumentBuilder builder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(). newDocumentBuilder(); Document doc = builder.newDocument(); SOAPEnvelope env = new SOAPEnvelope(SOAPConstants.SOAP12_CONSTANTS, SchemaVersion.SCHEMA_1999) ; //create the body SOAPBody body = env.getBody(); Element requestElem = doc.createElementNS("urn:flickr", "x:FlickrRequest"); //create the method parameters Element methodElem = doc.createElement("method"); Node requestValue = doc.createTextNode("flickr.test.echo"); methodElem.appendChild(requestValue); //add to body requestElem.appendChild(methodElem); //next method parameter Element nameElem = doc.createElement("api_key"); //real key not included here Node valueValue = doc.createTextNode("xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"); nameElem.appendChild(valueValue); //add to body requestElem.appendChild(nameElem); SOAPBodyElement bodyElement = new SOAPBodyElement(requestElem); body.addChildElement(bodyElement); System.out.println( XMLUtils.ElementToString(env.getAsDOM()) ); //invoke SOAP call SOAPEnvelope returnenv = call.invoke( env ); return( XMLUtils.ElementToString(returnenv.getAsDOM()) ); } public static void main(String[] args) { try{ System.out.println( doit()); }catch(Exception e){ e.printStackTrace(); } } } Here is the output <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/soap-envelope"; xmlns:xsd="http://www. w3.org/1999/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance";> <soapenv:Body><ns1:FlickrRequest xmlns:ns1="urn:flickr"><method>flickr. test.echo</method><api_key>xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</api_key></ns1: FlickrRequest> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope> AxisFault faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}VersionMismatch faultSubcode: faultString: Version Mismatch faultActor: faultNode: faultDetail: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace: AxisFault faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}VersionMismatch faultSubcode: faultString: Version Mismatch faultActor: faultNode: faultDetail: Version Mismatch at org.apache.axis.message.EnvelopeBuilder.startElement(EnvelopeBuilder.java:141) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.startElement(DeserializationContextImpl. java:976) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(AbstractSAXParser. java:533) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl. java:330) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl$NSContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl. java:779) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl. java:1794) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl. java:368) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration. java:834) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration. java:764) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java: 148) at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java: 1242) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:375) at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationContextImpl. java:242) at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:538) at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:376) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2583) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2553) at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1753) at thehallfamily.soap.SoapConnector.doit(SoapConnector.java:65) at thehallfamily.soap.SoapConnector.main(SoapConnector.java:70) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl. java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java: 25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:78) Any help would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks Keith
