Apache SOAP. Does vectorized parameter equal SOAP Body?

[John Davis]

I went ahead with Apache SOAP.
my code so far looks like this (there has been no testing yet)

  
// ***************************************************************************
//   CREATE THE SOAP BODY, the XML element containing the huge character array
// ***************************************************************************

StringBufferfeedData= new StringBuffer (500);

String  returnedString  =  feedObject.getGLfeedString();

feedData.append ("<settledExpenseItems>");
feedData.append ( returnedString.toCharArray() );
feedData.append ("</settledExpenseItems>");

// **************************************************
//  OK.  feedData now contains the body of our SOAP
//  message.  now, all we gotta do is wrap it in a
//  SOAP envelope and header,  and send it, probably
//  with XML-RPC
// **************************************************

System.out.println ("SOAP Body =  " + feedData);

// ***************************************************************
//  OK.  GET A CALL OBJECT TO BE USED FOR THE SOAP REQUEST
// ***************************************************************

Call call = new Call ();

// ***************************************************************
//  OK . SET UP THE CALL WITH THE URI AND METHOD TO BE RUN
//  DOWN AT STANLEY
// ***************************************************************
call.setTargetObjectURI ("urn:wjs-stockquotes");

call.setMethodName ("getGLfeed"); 

// ****************************************************************
//  NOW SETUP FOR SERIALIZATION AND ENCODING
// ****************************************************************

call.setSOAPMappingRegistry (new SOAPMappingRegistry());

call.setEncodingStyleURI (Constants.NS_URI_SOAP_ENC); 

// ******************************************************************
//  SETUP A PARAMETER
// ******************************************************************

Vector params = new Vector ();

params.addElement (new Parameter ("feedBuffer", StringBuffer.class,null, null));

call.setParams (params);

// *********************************************************************
//   OK.  SOAP this request to the Server
// *********************************************************************

URLserversURL=  null;

try
{
serversURL= new URL ("http://serversURL.jsp");
}
catch (java.net.MalformedURLException ex)
{
System.err.println ("java.net.MalformedURLException encountered = " + ex);
}

// ***************************************************************************
//    Invoke the SOAP call
// ***************************************************************************

try
{
Response resp = call.invoke (serversURL ,"http://someurl.jsp"); 
}
catch (org.apache.soap.SOAPException ex)
{
System.err.println ("org.apache.soap.SOAPException encountered = " + ex);
}

In this code, when I added my content (a StringBuffer to the parameter Vector, did that have the effect of making my StringBuffer equal to the SOAP Body?

[John Davis]

I ran this SOAP request to a SOAP Server which printed out what it got. I am happy to say that the content of my Vector parameter showed up as the SOAP-Body.