I am able to use an NSMutableURLRequest
with an NSURLConnection
to connect to a SOAP web service, as follows:
NSString *soapMessage = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<?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>"
"<CelsiusToFahrenheit xmlns=\"http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/\">"
"<Celsius>140.0</Celsius>"
"</CelsiusToFahrenheit>"
"</soap:Body>"
"</soap:Envelope>"];
NSData *soapData = [soapMessage dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx"];
NSMutableURLRequest *theRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
NSString *msgLength = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%lu", (unsigned long)[soapMessage length]];
[theRequest addValue: @"text/xml; charset=utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[theRequest addValue: @"http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/CelsiusToFahrenheit" forHTTPHeaderField:@"SOAPAction"];
[theRequest addValue:@"www.w3schools.com" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Host"];
[theRequest addValue: msgLength forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
[theRequest setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[theRequest setHTTPBody:soapData];
How could I do the same using AFNetworking or STHTTPRequest?
STHTTPRequest
//create request
STHTTPRequest *request = [STHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
//set header here
[request setHeaderWithName:@"Host" value:@"www.w3schools.com"];
[request setHeaderWithName:@"SOAPAction" value: @"http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/CelsiusToFahrenheit"];
[request setHeaderWithName:@"Content-Type" value:@"text/xml; charset=utf-8"];
//set body here
request.rawPOSTData = soapData;
//completion block
request.completionBlock = ^(NSDictionary *headers, NSString *body) {
NSLog(@"headers = %@\nbody = %@", headers, body);
//parse xml string object here as request is successfull
if (body.length > 0)
{
NSError *error= nil;
NSDictionary *dict = [XMLReader dictionaryForXMLString:body error:&error];
if (!error)
{
NSLog(@"XML Dictionary: %@",dict);
//do necessary requirement here
}
else
NSLog(@"Error while parsing xml data : %@",[error description]);
}
else
NSLog(@"No response from request");
};
//error block
request.errorBlock = ^(NSError *error) {
NSLog(@"%@",[error description]);
};
//start request
[request startAsynchronous];
AFNetworking
AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation = [[AFHTTPRequestOperation alloc] initWithRequest:theRequest];
operation.responseSerializer = [AFXMLParserResponseSerializer serializer];
[operation setCompletionBlockWithSuccess:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
//parse NSXMLParser object here if request successfull
if ([responseObject isKindOfClass:[NSXMLParser class]]) {
NSXMLParser *parser = (NSXMLParser *)responseObject;
NSDictionary *dict = [XMLReader dictionaryForNSXMLParser:parser];
NSLog(@"JSON: %@ : %@", responseObject,dict);
}
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}];
[[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] addOperation:operation];
Here XMLReader provides NSDictionary
of XMLData
using NSXMLParser
I haved added one more method in XMLReader
classes :
+(NSDictionary*)dictionaryForNSXMLParser:(NSXMLParser*)parser error:(NSError **)error
EDIT : Method Description
+ (NSDictionary *)dictionaryForNSXMLParser:(NSXMLParser *)xmlParser error:(NSError **)error
{
XMLReader *reader = [[XMLReader alloc] initWithError:error];
NSDictionary *rootDictionary = [reader objectWithNSXMLParser:xmlParser options:0];
return rootDictionary;
}
objectWithNSXMLParser
method.
- (NSDictionary *)objectWithNSXMLParser:(NSXMLParser *)xmlParser options:(XMLReaderOptions)options
{
// Clear out any old data
self.dictionaryStack = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
self.textInProgress = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
// Initialize the stack with a fresh dictionary
[self.dictionaryStack addObject:[NSMutableDictionary dictionary]];
[xmlParser setShouldProcessNamespaces:(options & XMLReaderOptionsProcessNamespaces)];
[xmlParser setShouldReportNamespacePrefixes:(options & XMLReaderOptionsReportNamespacePrefixes)];
[xmlParser setShouldResolveExternalEntities:(options & XMLReaderOptionsResolveExternalEntities)];
xmlParser.delegate = self;
BOOL success = [xmlParser parse];
// Return the stack's root dictionary on success
if (success)
{
NSDictionary *resultDict = [self.dictionaryStack objectAtIndex:0];
return resultDict;
}
return nil;
}