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PStraszynski
Occasional Contributor
14 years ago

missing namespace text in XML - please help!

Hi there

I'm struggling to get my groovy code to produce the XML code that i need for my SOAP request.
I've basically taken an existing request that works - then stripped out the data that I wish to modify and then tried to replace it with data that I wish to use. (Not sure of the best method - but i've opted to use a groovy script?).

My problems seem to be related to namespaces - in my case it is named 'v1'


My request has this as it's first line :
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:v1="http://xxxxxx.com/dsselect/ExtractionService/v1/">

My Groovy code contains this extract, I'm trying to add a new child element that contains the namespace 'v1' within the tag name:

holder.removeDomNodes("//v1:Identifiers/*") // deletes some nodes before trying to replace them

org.w3c.dom.Element newXML = xmlUtils.addChildElement(holder.getDomNode("//v1:Identifiers"), "v1:InstrumentIdentifier", "")
log.info "Update 2 : " + holder.getXml()
org.w3c.dom.Element newelement = xmlUtils.addChildElement(newXML, "v1:IdentifierValue", fields[1]);
//log.info "Update 3 : " + holder.getXml()
newelement = xmlUtils.addChildElement(newXML, "v1:IdentifierType", fields[0]);

BUT
when i examine the tags that are inserted into my request the string "v1:" is missing , instead i get

<InstrumentIdentifier>
<IdentifierValue>AXAF.PA</IdentifierValue>
<IdentifierType>RIC</IdentifierType>
</InstrumentIdentifier>

My request won't work without the "v1". Can anyone please help me work out how to resolve this problem?

Really appreciate it - i've been struggling all day on this one

Jo

2 Replies

  • SmartBear_Suppo's avatar
    SmartBear_Suppo
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    14 years ago
    Hi Jo,

    The addChildElement method you are using doesn't support namespaces unfortunately, you will have to add the elements "manually";

    def parent = holder.getDomNode("//v1:Identifiers")
    def doc = parent.ownerDocument
    def ns = "http://xxxxxx.com/dsselect/ExtractionService/v1/"

    // create main parent
    def identifierChild = parent.appendChild( doc.createElementNS( ns , "InstrumentIdentifier" ))

    // crate value
    def valueChild = identifierChild.appendChild( doc.createElementNS( ns, "IdentifierValue" ))
    valueChild.appendChild( doc.createTextNode( fields[1] ))

    ....

    Hope this helps!

    /Ole
    SmartBear Software
  • PStraszynski's avatar
    PStraszynski
    Occasional Contributor
    14 years ago
    wow! - Thank you very much for a speedy response. I'll give this a go.

    Thanks - I'll post my problem here much sooner in future

    Jo