Re: wrting a soap response to file

From:
"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:40:30 -0700
Message-ID:
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jude.ulibarri@travelocity.com wrote:

On Aug 11, 2:12 pm, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschill...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

jude.uliba...@travelocity.com wrote:

On Aug 11, 1:29 pm, jude.uliba...@travelocity.com wrote:

On Aug 11, 12:32 pm, "Mike Schilling"
<mscottschill...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

jude.uliba...@travelocity.com wrote:

Hello:

I'm using AXIS to create a SOAP Envelope. I can successfully
send
this request to the web service and get a response back. But
now,
I
want to write the response to file. How is this done?


What form do you have the response in? If it's XML, you can use
a
java.xml.transform.Transformer to turn it into a byte stream and
write those bytes to a file. (Use a StreamResult constructed
from
a
File or a FileOutputStream.)


The response is in an AXIS SOAPEnvelope object. Let me look at
any
other return values that an axis.client.Call will return. I'll
also
try the Transformer class


The Transformer constructor takes an XML source and a result.
Well,
it doesn't recognize the SOAPEnvelope as an XML source.


SOAPEnvelope extends org.w3c.dom.Node, so this should work fine.

It goes something like (I'm not going to compile this, so watch out
for typos)

import java.xml.transform.*;
import java.xml.transform.dom.*;
import java.xml.transform.stream.*;

Transformer transformer =
TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
transformer.transform(
new DOMSource(envelope),
new StreamResult(new File(fileName)));


You ROCK!!

import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

Transformer transformer =
TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();

transformer.transform(new DOMSource(response), new StreamResult(new
File("response.xml")))

I only do JAVA on the side now. Been years since I've done anything
meaningful with it.

Thank you for all the help!!


Happy to have been of service.

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