Web Services

                    Web services standards and technologies allow us to describe and deploy applications or services on a network in a consistent way so that they can be discovered and invoked in a secure and reliable manner. or   Web services is a software system. i.e. it consists of collection of programs.

                            or

                    Web service is a web Application, which can publish its function or message to the rest of the world. 

                 

 

SOAP MESSAGE FORMAT

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-envelope"
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://www.w3.org/2001/12/soap-encoding">

<SOAP-ENV:Header>
  ...
  ...
</SOAP-ENV:Header>

<SOAP-ENV:Body>

  ...
  ...
  <SOAP-ENV:Fault>
    ...
    ...
  </SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>

</SOAP_ENV:Envelope>

Description:

• Envelope: ( Mandatory )
  Defines the start and the end of the message.
  
• Header: ( Optional )
  Contains any optional attributes of the message used in processing the message, either at an intermediary point or at the ultimate end point.
  
• Body: ( Mandatory )
  Contains the XML data comprising the message being sent.
  
• Fault: ( Optional )
  An optional Fault element that provides information about errors that occurred while processing the message
  
  
  

  Getting stream using url

  private InputStream downloadUrl(String url) {
    HttpURLConnection con = null;
    URL url;
    InputStream is=null;
    try {
     url = new URL(url);
     con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
     con.setReadTimeout(10000 /* milliseconds */);
     con.setConnectTimeout(15000 /* milliseconds */);
     con.setRequestMethod("GET");
     con.setDoInput(true);
     con.addRequestProperty("Referer", "http://nsolution.in");
     // Start the query
     con.connect();
     is = con.getInputStream();
    }catch (IOException e) {
                          //handle the exception !
     e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return is;
   
   }

   Using Http
  

 public static InputStream getInputStreamFromUrl(String url) {
  InputStream content = null;
  try {
   HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
   HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
   // Execute HTTP Get Request
   HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
   content = response.getEntity().getContent();
                } catch (Exception e) {
   //handle the exception !
  }
  return content;

         

WSDL stands for  "Web Services Description Language"

• WSDL stands for Web Services Description Language
• WSDL is an XML based protocol for information exchange in decentralized and distributed environments.
• WSDL is the standard format for describing a web service.
• WSDL definition describes how to access a web service and what operations it will perform.
• WSDL is a language for describing how to interface with XML-based services.
• WSDL is an integral part of UDDI, an XML-based worldwide business registry.
• WSDL is the language that UDDI uses.
• WSDL was developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM.

    

UDDI stands for "Universal Description Discovery Integration

UDDI is an XML-based standard for describing, publishing, and finding Web services.

• UDDI stands for Universal Description, Discovery and Integration.
• UDDI is a specification for a distributed registry of Web services.
• UDDI is platform independent, open framework.
• UDDI can communicate via SOAP, CORBA, Java RMI Protocol.
• UDDI uses WSDL to describe interfaces to web services.
• UDDI is seen with SOAP and WSDL as one of the three foundation standards of web services.
• UDDI is an open industry initiative enabling businesses to discover each other and define how they interact over the Internet.

UDDI has two parts:

• A registry of all a web service's metadata including a pointer to the WSDL description of a service
• A set of WSDL port type definitions for manipulating and searching that registry

here is the simple example for calling webservices.

Hi , i will explain dom parsing with a simple example. but if we do this with sax or pull parsing is better because , dom parsing is for large documents. just for understanding and simplicity of dom code, i am doing this by using dom parsing.



package com.example.webservice;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
 private EditText cityname=null;
    private EditText countryname=null;
    String tempVal = "";
    String res="";
    private String mResult = "";
   private TextView tv;
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        cityname=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);
        countryname=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText2);
         tv=(TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
     
     
    }

    public String callWebservice(View v) {
       
       
     
try {
            URL mUrl = new URL("http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx");

            //HotelMenuDatabase database = new HotelMenuDatabase(context);
            GpsLogs.InfoLog("callWebService - before url connection ");
            URLConnection conn = mUrl.openConnection();
           
           
            // URLConnection conn = mUrl.openConnection();

            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
            conn.addRequestProperty("SOAPAction", "http://www.webserviceX.NET/GetWeather");

            conn.setDoOutput(true);
           
           

            OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(
                    conn.getOutputStream());
            String body1 = "", body2 = "";
            //Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "hi", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            GpsLogs.InfoLog("callWebService - before body ");
            try {
/*
                 body1="<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"   
                            +"<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV=\"
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\"  xmlns:SOAP-ENC=\"
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/\" xmlns:xsi=\"
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">"
                            +"<SOAP-ENV:Body>"
                            + "<m:saveInventory xmlns:m=\"http://service.com
\">"
                            +"<m:barId>"+ barcodeid.getText() +" </m:barId>"
                            +"<m:name>"+ name.getText() +"</m:name>"
                            +"<m:model>"+ model.getText() +"</m:model>"
                            +"<m:details>"+ details.getText()
+"</m:details>"
                            +"<m:price>"+ price.getText() +"</m:price>"
                            +"</m:saveInventory>"
                            +"</SOAP-ENV:Body>"
                        +"</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>";*/
               
               
                 /*body1=      "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"
                            + "<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=\"
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"
http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:soap=\"
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">"
                            + "<soap:Body>"
                            +"<saveInventory xmlns=\"http://service.com\">"
                            +"<barId>barcodeid.getText()</barId>"
                       +"< name>name.getText()</name>"
                      + "< model>model.getText()</model>"
                       +"< details>details.getText()</details>"
                       +"< price>price.getText()</ price>"
                    + "</ saveInventory>"
                   +"</soap:Body>"
                +" </soap:Envelope>";
                */

                 

               
           

                 
                 
                 
                 
                  body1=    "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>"
               +  " <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:soap=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">"
                   + "<soap:Body>"
                     + "<GetWeather xmlns=\"http://www.webserviceX.NET\">"
                       + "<CityName>hyderabad</CityName>"
                      +  "<CountryName>india</CountryName>"
                     + "</GetWeather>"
                    +"</soap:Body>"
                + " </soap:Envelope>";
               
            }
           
           
            catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            System.out.println("body1==" + body1);
            wr.write(body1);
           
         
         
            GpsLogs.InfoLog("callWebService - before flush " + body1);
            wr.flush(); // Get

            GpsLogs.InfoLog("callWebService - before bufferedReader ");
            BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    conn.getInputStream()));
            String line;
            while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
                mResult = mResult + line;
            }

            GpsLogs.InfoLog("mResult==" + mResult);

       

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return mResult;
   
    }

    private boolean domParseForResult(String parse) throws Exception {
        try {
            boolean flag = false;
            MenuItemBean resultBean;
            DocumentBuilderFactory dbf =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
            org.w3c.dom.Document doc = db.parse(new InputSource(
                    new StringReader(parse)));
            // normalize the document
            doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
            // get the root node
            NodeList nodeList =
doc.getElementsByTagName("GetWeatherResponse");
            int length = nodeList.getLength();
            // GpsLogs.InfoLog("total records is" + length);
            for (int j = 0; j < length; j++) {
                resultBean = new MenuItemBean();
                Node node = nodeList.item(j);
                // the node has three child nodes
                for (int i = 0; i < node.getChildNodes().getLength(); i++) {

                    Node temp = node.getChildNodes().item(i);

                    if
(temp.getNodeName().equalsIgnoreCase("GetWeatherResult")) {
                        String result = temp.getTextContent();
                        tv.setText(result);
                       
                        GpsLogs.InfoLog("result==" + result);
                        /*if (s.equalsIgnoreCase(result)) {

                            System.out.println("response" + result);
                            return true;
                        }*/
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
        return false;
    }
   

}



package com.example.webservice;

public class MenuItemBean {


public String resultBean;

}

package com.example.webservice;

import android.util.Log;

public class GpsLogs {

private static final String tag="weather";

public static void ExceptionLog(String ex)

{

Log.e(tag, ex);

}

public static void InfoLog(String info)

{

Log.i(tag, info);

}

}

activity_main.xml

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"

    android:layout_width="match_parent"

    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <EditText

        android:id="@+id/editText1"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"

        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"

        android:layout_marginTop="56dp"

        android:ems="10" >

        <requestFocus />

    </EditText>

    <EditText

        android:id="@+id/editText2"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/editText1"

        android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"

        android:layout_marginTop="29dp"

        android:ems="10" />

    <Button

        android:id="@+id/button1"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_below="@+id/editText2"

        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"

        android:layout_marginTop="23dp"

        android:onClick="callWebservice"

        android:text="Get Update" />

    <TextView

        android:id="@+id/textView1"

        android:layout_width="wrap_content"

        android:layout_height="wrap_content"

        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"

        android:layout_below="@+id/button1"

        android:layout_marginLeft="34dp"

        android:layout_marginTop="40dp"

        android:text=""

         />

</RelativeLayout>

Declare this permission in manifest file

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>