How do I call doPost?

[M Jay]

I am required to use a servlet which has an implementation for both doGet and doPost. However I am required to call the doPost method by "posting" an xml file(or SOAP message). Any idea how I can do that? some code illustration will be greatly appreciated.

[Vicky Pandya]

you can call doPost from doGet() if that's what you are asking.

[Bear Bibeault]

What mechanism are you using to initiate the request?

[M Jay]

Basically I have a set of parameters that I need to pass to a servlet. Previously I was passing them by calling the servlet like

this "http://localhost:8080/.../Servlet?param1=?¶m2=?"

So I assume the above calls the doGet method of the servlet.

Now I am required to implement a doPost method for the same servlet, which would receive those parameters in an XML file. So I am sending the attributes via SOAP to the doPost. This is the code for the class that initiates the request:

 public class SOAPcall{
 
    public static String postRequest( String URLstring, String nameParam, String areaParam, String facilityParam, String postcodeParam ) {
            String returnValue = "";
       try {
 
   // Create the connection and the message factory.
            SOAPConnectionFactory scf = SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
            SOAPConnection connection = scf.createConnection();
            MessageFactory msgFactory = MessageFactory.newInstance();
 
            // Create a message
            SOAPMessage msg = msgFactory.createMessage();
 
            // Create an envelope in the message
            SOAPEnvelope envelope = msg.getSOAPPart().getEnvelope();
    msg.setProperty(SOAPMessage.WRITE_XML_DECLARATION,"true");
    msg.setProperty(SOAPMessage.CHARACTER_SET_ENCODING,"UTF-8");
 
          // Get hold of the the body
            SOAPBody body = envelope.getBody();
  SOAPElement mess =  body.addChildElement(envelope.createName("message"));
  mess.addAttribute(envelope.createName("name"), "map");
  SOAPElement name = mess.addChildElement(envelope.createName("name"));
            name .addTextNode(nameParam);
             SOAPElement area =  mess.addChildElement(envelope.createName("area"));
             area.addTextNode(areaParam);
              SOAPElement facility = mess.addChildElement(envelope.createName("facility"));
               facility.addTextNode(facilityParam);
               SOAPElement postcode = mess.addChildElement(envelope.createName("postcode"));
               postcode.addTextNode(postcodeParam);
 
            URL endpoint
                = new URL(URLstring );
 
            msg.saveChanges();
 
            System.out.println("-----------javax xml soap saaj-------");
           System.out.println("----------- Request Message ----------\n");
            msg.writeTo(System.out);
            
            SOAPMessage reply = connection.call(msg, endpoint);
 
            System.out.println("\nReceived reply from: "+endpoint);
 
            System.out.println("----------- Reply Message ----------\n");
 
            reply.writeTo(System.out);
 
            connection.close();
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            ex.printStackTrace();
        }
 return returnValue;
    }