How to call a SOAP web service on Android [closed]

Question

I am having a lot of trouble finding good information on how to call a standard SOAP/WSDL web service with Android. All I've been able to find are either very convoluted documents and references to "kSoap2" and then some bit about parsing it all manually with SAX. OK, that's fine, but it's 2008, so I figured there should be some good library for calling standard web services.

The web service is just basically one created in NetBeans. I would like to have IDE support for generating the plumbing classes. I just need the easiest/most-elegant way to contact a WSDL based web service from an Android-based phone.

Answer 1

If you can use JSON, there is a whitepaper, a video and the sample.code in Developing Application Services with PHP Servers and Android Phone Clients.

Answer 2

To call a SOAP web Service from android , try to use this client

DON'T FORGET TO ADD ksoap2-android.jar in your java build path

public class WsClient {
    private static final String SOAP_ACTION = "somme";
    private static final String OPERATION_NAME = "somme";
    private static final String WSDL_TARGET_NAMESPACE = "http://example.ws";
    private static final String SOAP_ADDRESS = "http://192.168.1.2:8080/axis2/services/Calculatrice?wsdl";

    public String caclculerSomme() {

        String res = null;
        SoapObject request = new SoapObject(WSDL_TARGET_NAMESPACE,
                OPERATION_NAME);
        request.addProperty("a", "5");
        request.addProperty("b", "2");

        SoapSerializationEnvelope envelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(
                SoapEnvelope.VER11);
        envelope.dotNet = true;
        envelope.setOutputSoapObject(request);
        HttpTransportSE httpTransport = new HttpTransportSE(SOAP_ADDRESS);

        try {
            httpTransport.call(SOAP_ACTION, envelope);
            String result = envelope.getResponse().toString();
            res = result;
            System.out.println("############# resull is :" + result);
        } catch (Exception exception) {
            System.out.println("########### ERRER" + exception.getMessage());
        }

        return res;
    }
}