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Getsy
Getsy

Reputation: 4905

iOS: Accessing wsdl service api from iOS client

I have a web service created through Eclipse. Created a web service method and wsdl for that class. I would like to know how can i access this web service api from my iOS client? For ex: my wsdl file is 'ReceiverClass.wsdl' and 'ReceiverClass.java class contains a method called 'RespondResult(..)'. I know about NSURLConnection, i'm asking how can i point to this url api?

Thank you!

Getsy.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7133

Answers (3)

Saqib Saud
Saqib Saud

Reputation: 2795

There is no easy solution, easiest one is to move away from SOAP.

Meanwhile you can try http://sudzc.com/ or you can write a simple wrapper yourself which will send and receive XML packets.

In example below, I observed the xml packets through "Poster" firefox plugin and made generic methods to make SOAP request. The biggest drawback is that I'm ignoring WSDL and I have to implement each method myself (unlike Java).

- (void) requestData:(NSString *) request withParameters:(NSDictionary*)parameters
          soapAction:(NSString*)soapAction serviceName:(NSString *)url
             success:(void (^)(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject))success
             failure:(void (^)(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error))failure
{
    NSString *packet = [self formatRequest:request WithParameters:parameters];
    NSData *envelope = [packet dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    NSMutableURLRequest *request1 = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url] cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:30.0];
    [request1 setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
    [request1 setHTTPBody:envelope];
    [request1 setValue:@"text/xml" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];

    AFHTTPRequestOperation * operation =  [[AFHTTPRequestOperationManager manager] HTTPRequestOperationWithRequest:request1 success:success failure:failure];
    operation.responseSerializer = [AFHTTPResponseSerializer serializer];
    [[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] addOperation:operation];

}

- (NSString*) formatRequest:(NSString*)request WithParameters:(NSDictionary *)parameters
{
    NSMutableString *packet = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
    [packet appendString:@"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>"
     "<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:soap12=\"http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope\">"
     "<soap12:Body>"];

    [packet appendFormat:@"<%@ xmlns=\"http://tempuri.org/\">",request];

    for (NSString *key in parameters) {
        [packet appendFormat:@"<%@>%@</%@>",key,[parameters objectForKey:key],key];
    }

    [packet appendFormat:@"</%@>",request];
    [packet appendString:@"</soap12:Body></soap12:Envelope>"];

    return packet;
}

Upvotes: 1

Vinay Jain
Vinay Jain

Reputation: 2634

You can use this iPhone Web Services Client. Also can refer to these tutorials.

SOAP Based Web Services Made Easy On The iOS Platform

Working with iOS and SOAP

Upvotes: 1

dpassage
dpassage

Reputation: 5453

You'll need a SOAP framework. There's not one built into iOS, but here's one which was the first hit on Github: https://github.com/priore/SOAPEngine.

Upvotes: 1

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