I'm building my first application in android which consumes a wcf service.I'm using ksoap2 to parse the response.The response is actually an array of objects defined in C#.I did this following this really helpful guide.Now my problem is that I need to consume a wcf service which returns again an array of objects in C# but this time some properties of these objects are other objects.So my question is how can I map the inner objects so that i can parse their properties?
In case I was unclear, I need to parse an object like this:
public class OutterObject {
private InnerObject1 io1;
private InnerObject2 io2;
}
Hope I was clear enough
Ok this is my simplified code i can't post all of it just the portion i think is at fault
SoapObject Request = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE, METHOD_NAME);
Request.addProperty("connString",args.get(0));
Request.addProperty("ClCode", args.get(1));
Request.addProperty("TeCode", args.get(2));
Request.addProperty("CourseDate", args.get(3));
SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);
envelope.dotNet = true;
envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);
envelope.addMapping(namespace, "SRV_WeekProgramm",newSRV_WeekProgramm().getClass());
envelope.addMapping(namespace, "Course", new Course().getClass());
envelope.addMapping(namespace, "StudentHours", new StudentHours().getClass());
HttpTransportSE androidHttpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(URL);
androidHttpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION, envelope);
Course response = (Course)envelope.bodyIn; //this is where it crashes
and this is the thrown exception: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.ksoap2.serialization.SoapObject cannot be cast to connectionInitializer.Course
Here is an example that worked for me.
This is response message type from web service
<message name="loginUserResponse">
<part name="code" type="xsd:int"/>
<part name="desc" type="xsd:string"/>
<part name="user" type="tns:user"/>
</message>
The method loginUser
definition
<operation name="loginUser">
<documentation>Login user.</documentation>
<input message="tns:loginUserRequest"/>
<output message="tns:loginUserResponse"/>
</operation>
Class UserResponse
(Outter) contains User
property:
public class UserResponse implements KvmSerializable {
public int code;
public String desc;
public User user;
public Object getProperty(int arg0) {
switch (arg0) {
case 0:
return code;
case 1:
return desc;
case 2:
return user;
default:
break;
}
return null;
}
public int getPropertyCount() {
return 3;
}
public void getPropertyInfo(int index, Hashtable arg1, PropertyInfo info) {
switch (index) {
case 0:
info.type = PropertyInfo.STRING_CLASS;
info.name = "code";
break;
case 1:
info.type = PropertyInfo.STRING_CLASS;
info.name = "desc";
break;
case 2:
info.type = User.class;
info.name = "user";
break;
default:
break;
}
}
public void setProperty(int index, Object value) {
switch (index) {
case 0:
this.code = Integer.parseInt(value.toString());
break;
case 1:
this.desc = value.toString();
break;
case 2:
this.user = (User) value;
default:
break;
}
}
}
And the User
class (Inner)
public class User implements KvmSerializable {
public int user_id;
public String username;
public String email;
public String password;
public User() {
}
public Object getProperty(int index) {
switch (index) {
case 0:
return user_id;
case 1:
return username;
case 2:
return email;
case 3:
return password;
default:
return null;
}
}
public int getPropertyCount() {
return 4;
}
public void getPropertyInfo(int index, Hashtable arg1, PropertyInfo info) {
switch (index) {
case 0:
info.type = PropertyInfo.INTEGER_CLASS;
info.name = "user_id";
break;
case 1:
info.type = PropertyInfo.STRING_CLASS;
info.name = "username";
break;
case 2:
info.type = PropertyInfo.STRING_CLASS;
info.name = "email";
break;
case 3:
info.type = PropertyInfo.STRING_CLASS;
info.name = "password";
break;
default:
break;
}
}
public void setProperty(int index, Object value) {
if(null == value)
value = "";
switch (index) {
case 0:
user_id = Integer.parseInt(value.toString());
break;
case 1:
username = value.toString();
break;
case 2:
email = value.toString();
break;
case 3:
password = value.toString();
break;
}
}
This is important: make sure you register the keys for both outter class and inner class.
envelope.addMapping(NAMESPACE, "loginUserResponse", UserResponse.class);
envelope.addMapping(NAMESPACE, "user", User.class);
Finally, you can get the result by casting:
HttpTransportSE androidHttpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(SERVER_URL); //open the requisition
androidHttpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION, envelope);// call
UserResponse response = (UserResponse)envelope.bodyIn;
Hope this help!