Executing web service operation with complex input - Please help

Question

Hi All,
I am working on invoking a web service through ADF. The request format for the webservice consists of multiple occurance of same element. Below is sample request. here <index> is repeating n number of times.
<soapenv:envelope>
<soapenv:Body>
          <ns6:StoreDocumentRequest>
               <ns6:docFileType>ABC</ns6:docFileType>
               <ns6:Metadata>
                    <ns6:index>
                         <ns6:indexType>Format_Type</ns6:indexType>
                         <ns6:indexValue>ACROBAT</ns6:indexValue>
                    </ns6:index>
                    <ns6:index>
                         <ns6:indexType>Buyer_No</ns6:indexType>
                         <ns6:indexValue>1234567</ns6:indexValue>
                    </ns6:index>
                    <ns6:index>
                         <ns6:indexType>Document_Type</ns6:indexType>
                         <ns6:indexValue>101A</ns6:indexValue>
                    </ns6:index>
                    <ns6:index>
                         <ns6:indexType>Capture_Location</ns6:indexType>
                         <ns6:indexValue>XYZ</ns6:indexValue>
                    </ns6:index>
               </ns6:Metadata>
               <ns6:Content>XXXXXXXXXXXX</ns6:Content>
          </ns6:StoreDocumentRequest>
     </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:envelope>
now I need to populate these values thrugh Operation binding in my managed bean class. I have also dragged these parameters and operation on my jsf page to get hold of those in my managed bean context. I am having following code in my managed bean to set these parameters.
BindingContainer bindings = BindingContext.getCurrent().getCurrentBindingsEntry();
OperationBinding storeDocumentBinding = bindings.getOperationBinding("StoreDocument");
storeDocumentBinding.getParamsMap().put("docFileType", filetype);
storeDocumentBinding.getParamsMap().put("Content", filecontents);
storeDocumentBinding.getParamsMap().put("indexType", filecontents);
storeDocumentBinding.getParamsMap().put("indexValue", filecontents);
storeDocumentBinding.getParamsMap().put("indexType", filecontents);
storeDocumentBinding.getParamsMap().put("indexValue", filecontents);
storeDocumentBinding.execute();
Here I am facing some issues:
1. The operation is not picking values put from ParamMap(). It is taking values as empty (as in my .jspx page form, I have made it hidden though). It takes value from my jspx page form, which is blank.
2. when I am manually entering values in the .jspx page form, for <indexValue> and <indexType> tags, it is taking only one value (last one) for creating the request.
3. the storeDocument() function is a SOAP based service. How can I check for SOAP response after operationBinding.execute(). I checked for response after execution, it sends an object as result. How to get a SOAP response from it.
I need to fetch few values from the SOAP response and display it on screen.
Please help me out. I am noob in ADF.
regards,
Rajan

Answer 1

Hi Puthanampatti,
I followed the link and did exactly as mentioned. Here is my code
public String downloadDocument(FacesContext context, OutputStream out) throws IOException {
BindingContext bctx = BindingContext.getCurrent();
BindingContainer bindings = bctx.getCurrentBindingsEntry();
OperationBinding retrieveDocumentBinding = bindings.getOperationBinding("RetrieveDocument");
DCIteratorBinding attachmentsIterator = (DCIteratorBinding)bindings.get("AttachmentsIterator");
String documentId = attachmentsIterator.getCurrentRow().getAttribute("Seq").toString();
System.out.println(customSoapProvider.getRequest()); // getting null here
AttributeBinding docFileTypeVal = (AttributeBinding)bindings.getControlBinding("docId");
docFileTypeVal.setInputValue(522117);
Object result = retrieveDocumentBinding.execute();
System.out.println(customSoapProvider.getResponse()); //getting null here
but I am getting a null response in the last line.
what am I missing here.
regards,
Rajan
Edited by: Rajan M on Jan 5, 2013 11:27 AM