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Fabian Schneider
Fabian Schneider

Reputation: 809

Get SOAP element by tag with namespace in Java

I wondered how it was possible to get the content of a SOAP response body child when the child tag looks like this:

<sth:x>...</sth:x>

In the Oracle docs I found how to loop all Elements with a specific name. But therefore I need to create an Element first that specifies the name of the tag I want to search.

How do I create an element looking like the one above? I know how to make one like this:

<sth:id sth="asdf">

But that doesn't really work. Here is the server-response I attempt to read.

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <soapenv:Header/>
    <soapenv:Body>
        <ns5:loginResponse xmlns:ns5="x">
            <ns5:id>Value I am looking for</ns5:id>
            <ns5:rc>0</ns5:rc>
        </ns5:loginResponse>
     </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Thanks for your help :)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4376

Answers (2)

Arkadiusz Łukasiewicz
Arkadiusz Łukasiewicz

Reputation: 6366

Try this:

String xml = "YourXMl";
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource is = new InputSource(new StringReader(xml));
Document doc = builder.parse(is);
NodeList nodes =  doc.getDocumentElement().getElementsByTagNameNS("x","id");
System.err.println(nodes.item(0).getChildNodes().item(0).getNodeValue());

There are two important things factory.setNamespaceAware(true); - to turn on support for xml namespaces. doc.getDocumentElement().getElementsByTagNameNS("x","id"); To get element using namespace uri and element name. And here is <ns5:loginResponse xmlns:ns5="x"> declaration of namespace uri. x is uri ns5 is namespace.

Upvotes: 1

Fabian Schneider
Fabian Schneider

Reputation: 809

I found the answer:

The Element in question was within another SOAPBodyElement. So looping through both elements gave me the correct Value:

body = reply.getSOAPBody();
Iterator replyIt = body.getChildElements();

while(replyIt.hasNext()){
    SOAPBodyElement replysbe = (SOAPBodyElement) replyIt.next();
    Iterator replyIt2 = replysbe.getChildElements();
    SOAPElement sentSE = (SOAPElement) replyIt2.next();
    sessionID = sentSE.getValue();
}

Upvotes: 0

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