Looking for Help with marshalling XML to send to web server

[Mike Curtis]

Hello
i am newish to Programming and i am hoping that someone might be able to point me in the right direction. i have been able to write an app that will pull data from a web server and allow me to parse it. but i am running into issues with doing it in the reverse direction.  my code is below

	public static void main(String[] args) throws JAXBException {
		String username = "name";
		String password = "password";
		String https_url = "https://www.server.com";
		HttpGetReq hgr = new HttpGetReq();		
		JAXBContext jaxbctx = JAXBContext.newInstance("package");		
		Unmarshaller unm = jaxbctx.createUnmarshaller();
		Users us = (Users)(unm.unmarshal(hgr.StreamSource(https_url, username, password)));
		for (int i=0;us.getUser().size()>i;i++) {
			System.out.println(us.getUser().get(i).getAlias());
			hgr.setURL("");
			AlternateExtensions ae =(AlternateExtensions)unm.unmarshal(hgr.StreamSource(https_url+us.getUser().get(i).getAlternateExtensionsURI(), username, password));
			for (int x=0;x<ae.getAlternateExtension().size();x++){
				System.out.println(" -->"+ae.getAlternateExtension().get(x).getIdIndex()+" = "+ae.getAlternateExtension().get(x).getDtmfAccessId());
				
			}
		}
		Marshaller m = jaxbctx.createMarshaller();
		AlternateExtensions sae =(AlternateExtensions)m.marshal(arg0, arg1);
	}

	public StreamSource StreamSource(String https_url,String username,String password) throws JAXBException{
		HttpGet con = new HttpGet();
		String Response = con.Get(https_url+RESTURL, username, password);
		StreamSource streamSource = new StreamSource(new StringReader(Response));
		return streamSource;		
	}	
       public String Get(String https_url,String username,String password){
		disableCertificateValidation();
		StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); 
		URL url;
		try {
			url = new URL(https_url);
			HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();
			byte[] message = (username+":"+password).getBytes("UTF-8");
			String encoded = javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(message);
			con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic "+encoded);
			con.setRequestMethod("GET");
//			int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();

//			System.out.println("Sending 'GET' request to URL " + url);
//			System.out.println("Response Code:" + responseCode);

			BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
			String inputLine;

			while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
				sb.append(inputLine);
			}
			in.close();
				
		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	    return sb.toString(); 
	}
    public static void disableCertificateValidation() {
    	// Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
    	TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { 
    	    new X509TrustManager() {
    	      public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() { 
    	        return new X509Certificate[0]; 
    	      }
          public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {}
    	      public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {}
    	}};
    	// Ignore differences between given hostname and certificate hostname
    	HostnameVerifier hv = new HostnameVerifier() {
    	   public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) { return true; }
    	};

    	// Install the all-trusting trust manager
    	 try {
    	    SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
    	    sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new SecureRandom());
    	    HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
    	    HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(hv);
        	 } catch (Exception e) {}
    }

[Dave Tolls]

What are the exact issues you are running into.
Also, when posting code, could you put it in code tags?  There's a button at the top of the reply box.

[Mike Curtis]

i am trying to find a document that is written for someone with out a ton of programming experience. that explains how to take your unmarshaled object, marshal it, then then feed it back into code that is like this

			HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();
			byte[] message = (username+":"+password).getBytes("UTF-8");
			String encoded = javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(message);
			con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic "+encoded);
	        con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/xml");
    	    con.setRequestMethod("PUT");
	        con.setDoInput(true);
		    con.setDoOutput(true);
		    con.getOutputStream();
		    OutputStream output = new BufferedOutputStream(con.getOutputStream());
		    output.write(payload.getBytes());
		    output.flush();

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

Please always use the code button; I have edited your code with it and doesn't it look better
Line 80 looks dangerous, with an empty catch. You might suffer an exception and not know anything about it.

[Mike Curtis]

just as a follow up i found the answer i was looking for. to marshal my XML i needed the following

	public void SetAlternateExtension(Http h, AlternateExtensions.AlternateExtension aer) throws JAXBException{
		aer.setAlternateExtensionAdvancedURI(null);
		aer.setLocationObjectId(null);
		aer.setLocationURI(null);
		aer.setObjectId(null);
		aer.setIdIndex(index);
		JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance("com.ccg.cuc");
		Marshaller jaxbMarshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
		jaxbMarshaller.setProperty( Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true );
		StringWriter  sw = new StringWriter();
		jaxbMarshaller.marshal(new JAXBElement<AlternateExtensions.AlternateExtension>(new QName("AlternateExtensions","AlternateExtension"), AlternateExtensions.AlternateExtension.class, aer), sw);
		
		h.PUT(sw);
	}

i also needed to make the following URLconnection to be able to make the request

		this.METHOD="PUT";
		disableCertificateValidation();
		URL url;
		try {
			url = new URL(URL+RESTURL);
			HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();
			byte[] message = (USERNAME+":"+PASSWORD).getBytes("UTF-8");
			String encoded = javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(message);
			con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic "+encoded);
	        con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/xml");
    	    con.setRequestMethod("PUT");
	        con.setDoInput(true);
		    con.setDoOutput(true);
		    if (DEBUG==true){
		    	System.out.println("Sending "+METHOD+" request to URL " + url);
		    	System.out.println(sw.toString());
		    }

		    OutputStream os = con.getOutputStream();
	        BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(
	                new OutputStreamWriter(os));
                
		    con.connect();
	        writer.write(sw.toString());
	        writer.flush();
	        writer.close();
	        os.close();

			int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
			System.out.println(" Response Code:" + responseCode);
			if (DEBUG==true){
				detailOutput(con);
			}
	        
		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		
	}