[Question] How to call SOAP web services

[Onkarn92]

tns version - 2.0.1
Platform - android

Hi, I want to use SOAP web services with SOAP request & response format in nativescript. In android there is soap library "ksoap2-android", but i didn't find any soap library in nativescript. I need to pass data in XML format. is there any plugin/library in nativescript for SOAP services?. I tried following code but didn't worked for me -

 var xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xmlHttp.open('POST','http://MY_DOMAIN_ADDRESS/WebService.asmx',true);
    var soapRequest =  '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>' +
                        '<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"'+
                        '<soapenv:Header/>'+
                        '<soapenv:Body>'+
                            '<web:GetUserLoginForApp>'+                          
                                '<web:UserName>USERNAME</web:UserName>'+                         
                                '<web:Password>PASSWORD</web:Password>'+
                            '</web:GetUserLoginForApp>'+
                        '</soapenv:Body>'+
                        '</soapenv:Envelope>' ;

                         xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
                            if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
                                if (xmlHttp.status == 200) {
                                    alert('done. use firebug/console to see network response');
                                }
                            }
                        }
       xmlHttp.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
            xmlHttp.send(soapRequest);

I did console.log, but output is null/UNKNOWN. I'm confused about the problem. Please help me :) Thanks

[NickIliev]

Hello @Onkarn92

Do you have actual SOAP service from which you can receive a response!?
For example I have used this test service from w3schools

http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx

And was able to receive a response with no problem.
For example in your code use this line:

xmlHttp.open('POST','http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx',true);

and also log the response from the service

        if (xmlHttp.readyState == 4) {
            console.log(xmlHttp.responseText);
            // ... more code follows

Of course you will have to modify your soapRequest to actually convert from Fahrenheit (in your case you will have to pass your login service) but still you will receive a response with html page 404 which is valid response

[therevills]

Hi, I've managed to call my WS but I dont know how to parse the reponseText. Could you please show me an example on parsing? I've found that NS has an XML Parser (https://docs.nativescript.org/cookbook/xml-parser#xml-module) but having trouble using it with TypeScript...

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