How to get parameter of SOAP operation

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HI,&nbsp;I want to read the methods of a webservice and show the user the methods and parameters in java.This is my code so far:&nbsp;WsdlProject project = new WsdlProject();WsdlInterface iface = WsdlInterfaceFactory.importWsdl(project,"http://www.webservicex.com/globalweather.asmx?WSDL", true)[0];Iterator&lt;com.eviware.soapui.model.iface.Operation&gt; i = iface.getOperationList().iterator();WsdlOperation op;while (i.hasNext()) {    op = (WsdlOperation) i.next();    System.out.println("Operation: " + op.getName());}Is it possible the get the parameters for an operation?Best regards,Peter&nbsp;

rupert_anderson · Accepted Answer

Hi Peter,&nbsp;I had a quick look and say you have a WSDL with operation defined like:&nbsp;...&lt;message name="GetInvoiceRequestMessage"&gt;&lt;part name="invoiceRef" element="inv:getInvoice"&gt;&lt;/part&gt;&lt;/message&gt;&lt;message name="GetInvoiceResponseMessage"&gt;&lt;part name="invoiceDocument" element="inv:InvoiceDocument"&gt;&lt;/part&gt;&lt;/message&gt;&lt;portType name="InvoicePortType"&gt;&lt;documentation&gt;Get An Invoice Using It's Invoice Number&lt;/documentation&gt;&lt;operation name="getInvoice"&gt;&lt;input name="GetInvoiceInput" message="tns:GetInvoiceRequestMessage"/&gt;&lt;output name="GetInvoiceOutput" message="tns:GetInvoiceResponseMessage"/&gt;&lt;/operation&gt;&lt;/portType&gt;&lt;binding name="InvoicePortBinding" type="tns:InvoicePortType"&gt;&lt;soap:binding style="document"transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http" /&gt;&lt;operation name="getInvoice"&gt;&lt;soap:operationsoapAction="http://soapui.cookbook.samples/getInvoiceRequest/request" /&gt;&lt;input name="GetInvoiceInput"&gt;&lt;soap:body use="literal" /&gt;&lt;/input&gt;&lt;output name="GetInvoiceOutput"&gt;&lt;soap:body use="literal" /&gt;&lt;/output&gt;&lt;/operation&gt;&lt;/binding&gt;...&nbsp;Then adding these lines of code to your code's while loop:&nbsp;while (i.hasNext()) {&nbsp;op = (WsdlOperation) i.next();&nbsp;System.out.println("Operation: " + op.getName());&nbsp;MessagePart[] messageParts = op.getDefaultRequestParts();&nbsp;System.out.println("Request Message Part Name: "+messageParts[0].getName());&nbsp;System.out.println("Request Message Part Type: "+messageParts[0].getPartType());&nbsp;System.out.println("Request Message Part Description: "+messageParts[0].getDescription());}&nbsp;Gives output:&nbsp;Operation: getInvoiceRequest Message Part Name: invoiceRefRequest Message Part Type: CONTENTRequest Message Part Description: invoiceRef of type [{http://soapui.cookbook.samples/schema/invoice}InvoiceRefType]&nbsp;Is this something like what you want?&nbsp;Note, if you actually wanted the request, this can be generated by adding the following lines:&nbsp;WsdlOperation operation = (WsdlOperation) iface.getOperationByName( "getInvoice" );WsdlRequest request = operation.addNewRequest( "getInvoice Request" );System.out.println("Request String Content: "+operation.createRequest( true ).toString());&nbsp;Gives:&nbsp;Request String Content: &lt;soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:inv="http://soapui.cookbook.samples/schema/invoice"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;soapenv:Header/&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;soapenv:Body&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;inv:getInvoice&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;inv:invoiceNo&gt;?&lt;/inv:invoiceNo&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/inv:getInvoice&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/soapenv:Body&gt;&nbsp;Hope this helps,Cheers,Rup

irxn · Answer

Hi,&nbsp;thanks for your answers, this goes in the right direction.&nbsp;I write a programm where the user gives a url to a wsdl, gets the parameter he has to set und makes the request.&nbsp;All dynamic at runtime.&nbsp;I have another question. I want to make a call to a webservice and get the result. But I am not able to pass some arguments. How should I archive this?&nbsp; WsdlOperation op = iface.getOperationAt(1);
                String soapVersion = iface.getSoapVersion().toString();
                String opName = op.getName();

System.out.println("OPERATION:"+opName);

WsdlRequest req = op.getRequestAt(0);

System.out.println("REQUEST :"+req.getName());

System.out.println("The request content is ="+req.getRequestContent());

System.out.println("The action is ="+req.getAction());

req.setEndpoint("http://www.webservicex.com/globalweather.asmx?WSDL");

String result="";

WsdlSubmitContext wsdlSubmitContext = new WsdlSubmitContext(req);
                wsdlSubmitContext.setProperty("CountryName", "Germany");
                wsdlSubmitContext.setProperty("CityName", "Berlin");

wsdlSubmitContext.put("CountryName", "Germany");
                wsdlSubmitContext.put("CityName", "Berlin");
                WsdlSubmit&lt;?&gt; submit = (WsdlSubmit&lt;?&gt;) req.submit(wsdlSubmitContext, false);

Response response = submit.getResponse();

result = response.getContentAsString();

System.out.println("The result ="+result);It seems the parameters are ignored. How can I add parameters to a call?&nbsp;Best regards&nbsp;&nbsp;

rupert_anderson · Answer

Also Peter, I am curious to know why you would like to generate this information for a WSDL? Is it part of some kind of documentation tool?Thanks,Rup

rupert_anderson · Answer

Hi,&nbsp;Interesting topic... OK, well, I was short of time and not sure if this is the neatest/proper solution, but I think I have the gist of what you want.&nbsp;&nbsp;In simple terms, I used XMLSlurper to parse and update the request XML content directly. Hope you'll forgive the mixed scripting, switch to Groovy, so the solution is a mixture, but works and may help you:&nbsp;....WsdlOperation operation = (WsdlOperation) iface.getOperationByName( "getInvoice" );WsdlRequest request = operation.addNewRequest( "getInvoice Request" );&nbsp;//Create the request and capture the XML contentString requestXMLString = operation.createRequest( true ).toString()&nbsp;System.out.println("Request String Content: "+requestXMLString);&nbsp;//Use XMLSlurper to pass and update the invoiceNo=7 in my getInvoice operationdef envelopeNode = new XmlSlurper().parseText(requestXMLString)envelopeNode.Body.getInvoice.invoiceNo=7&nbsp;//This is just to serialize the XML objects back to a request XML StringXmlUtil xmlUtil = new XmlUtil()requestXMLString = xmlUtil.serialize(envelopeNode)println( "modified request: g"+requestXMLString)&nbsp;//Update the SoapUI request content with the new updated XML request contentrequest.setRequestContent(requestXMLString)&nbsp;//Submit as you didWsdlSubmit submit = (WsdlSubmit) request.submit( new WsdlSubmitContext(), false );Response response = submit.getResponse();String content = response.getContentAsString();System.out.println( content );&nbsp;This gives output like:...Request String Content: &lt;soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:inv="http://soapui.cookbook.samples/schema/invoice"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;soapenv:Header/&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;soapenv:Body&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;inv:getInvoice&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;inv:invoiceNo&gt;?&lt;/inv:invoiceNo&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/inv:getInvoice&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/soapenv:Body&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Envelope&gt;modified request: g&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;&lt;soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;soapenv:Header/&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;soapenv:Body&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;inv:getInvoice xmlns:inv="http://soapui.cookbook.samples/schema/invoice"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;inv:invoiceNo&gt;7&lt;/inv:invoiceNo&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/inv:getInvoice&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/soapenv:Body&gt;&lt;/soapenv:Envelope&gt;13:35:46,315 DEBUG [HttpClientSupport$SoapUIHttpClient] Attempt 1 to execute request13:35:46,315 DEBUG [SoapUIMultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager$SoapUIDefaultClientConnection] Sending request: POST /ws/invoice/v1 HTTP/1.113:35:46,379 DEBUG [SoapUIMultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager$SoapUIDefaultClientConnection] Receiving response: HTTP/1.1 200 OK13:35:46,383 DEBUG [HttpClientSupport$SoapUIHttpClient] Connection can be kept alive indefinitely&lt;S:Envelope xmlns:S="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;S:Body&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;InvoiceDocument xmlns="http://soapui.cookbook.samples/schema/invoice"&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;invoiceNo&gt;7&lt;/invoiceNo&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;company&gt;Test Company&lt;/company&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;amount&gt;100.0&lt;/amount&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &lt;/InvoiceDocument&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;/S:Body&gt;&lt;/S:Envelope&gt;13:36:18,498 DEBUG [SoapUIMultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager$SoapUIDefaultClientConnection] Connection closed&nbsp;(Note this service is just a stub&nbsp;that returns the invoiceNo from the request, plus hardcoded Test Company and 100)&nbsp;Is this what you need?&nbsp;Cheers,Rup

irxn · Answer

Thanks,&nbsp;this is exactly what I needed. Now I can build the request on runtime.Thanks for your help.&nbsp;Best regards,Peter

rupert_anderson · Answer

Hi Peter,&nbsp;Great, glad it workd for you, good luck with creating your request builder tool! :-)&nbsp;If you're happy with the solution, please can you mark the solution as accpeted so that others may take more note of it?&nbsp;Thanks,Rupert

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