Sending a SOAP request to a Web Service via URLConnection

You may want to test you web service by sending it a manually composed request and reading the XML returned. Here's how to do it (e.g. using BeanShell in jEdit):

The SOAP request

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"><soap:Body><getUserByEmail xmlns="http://service.w3.ibm.com"><iuser>jholy@example.com</iuser></getUserByEmail></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

The Java code

String soapXml =   // jEdit: = buffer.getText(0,buffer.getLength())
java.net.URL url = new java.net.URL("http://localhost:9081/myServiceWAR/services/MyService");
java.net.URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
// Set the necessary header fields
conn.setRequestProperty("SOAPAction", "http://localhost:9081/myServiceWAR/services/MyService");
conn.setDoOutput(true);
// Send the request
java.io.OutputStreamWriter wr = new java.io.OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(soapXml);
wr.flush();
// Read the response
java.io.BufferedReader rd = new java.io.BufferedReader(new java.io.InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { System.out.println(line); /*jEdit: print(line); */ }