Dealing with XML API - Parsing the SOAP response.

[Christopher_Mal]

Not gonna really try and show off anything here - but the documentation for XML API is a bit foggy and I want to share this. I tried to use a few common XML API calls that are a bit of a challenge to find out about.

Lets pretend you get a SOAP response and you want to manually iterate through that response envelope that has this structure:

<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <s:Body>
      <ns0:Root xmlns:ns0="http://Schemas.SNResponse_RigData">
         <Status>Success</Status>
         <RigData>Whatever</RigData>
      </ns0:Root>
   </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Here are a few API calls you will need:

      this.fSoapDoc = new XMLDocument(requestXML);
      var soapBody = this.fSoapDoc.getNode("/Envelope/Body/Root");
     
      var nodelist = soapBody.getChildNodes();
      for (var i=0; i < nodelist.getLength(); i++) {
          var kidNode = nodelist.item(i);
          if (kidNode.getNodeType() == Packages.org.w3c.dom.Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
            var fieldName = Packages.com.glide.util.XMLUtil.getNodeNameNS(kidNode);
            var fieldValue = Packages.com.glide.util.XMLUtil.getAllText(kidNode);
            gs.log("FIELD NAME: " + fieldName, "cmaloy");
            gs.log("FIELD VALUE: " + fieldValue, "cmaloy");
          }        
      }

This is going to get the name and value of the Status and RigData fields.

In this sample we would print to our log file:

FIELD NAME: Status
FIELD VALUE: Success
FIELD NAME: RigData
FIELD VALUE: Whatever

Of course you can do whatever at this point. If your status is Failure you can notify or update the log (etc.)