GroovyWS and complex requests

Question

I've faced with a problem of sending complex requests with GroovyWS.

This is sample request generated by soapUI:

<soapenv:Envelope 
    xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    xmlns:dex="http://www.temp.com/com/dex" 
>
 <soapenv:Header/>
 <soapenv:Body>
  <dex:executeRequest>
     <!--Optional:-->
     <a>?</a>
     <!--Optional:-->
     <b>?</b>
     <!--Optional:-->
     <parameters>
        <!--Zero or more repetitions:-->
        <parameter>
           <!--Optional:-->
           <key>?</key>
           <!--Optional:-->
           <value>?</value>
        </parameter>
     </parameters>
     <!--Optional:-->
     <c>?</c>
     <!--Optional:-->
     <d>?</d>
  </dex:feedrequest>
 </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

the piece of groovy code:

def proxy = webService.getClient(grailsApplication.config.ws.endpoint);
proxy.processdRequest(?);

So what I should pass instead of ?.

Thanks for you help.

-vova.

Answer 1

GroovyWS dynamically creates classes for each of the argument types you need in order to pass data to the web service call. For instance, if the webservice call was:

public int passSomeArgs( Arg1Type a, Arg2Type b );

GroovyWS would dynamically create an Arg1Type class and an Arg2Type class, which you could access via a method on the proxy.

// this will instantiate an Arg1Type for you
def arg1 = proxy.create( "ns1.ns2.Arg1Type" );  
// this will instantiate an Arg2Type for you
def arg2 = proxy.create( "ns1.ns2.Arg2Type" );  

You can then populate the arg1/arg2 instance with data and make your call:

int ret = proxy.passSomeArgs( arg1, arg2 );

Note, there are probably some namespaces involved in the classes being created. I used the CXF logging that was printed as GroovyWS was processing the WSDL to see what CXF thought the class names should actually be.