How to Handle SOAP Response

[segadson]

Hello (vCO Beginner),

I am using the SOAP Plugin and trying to figure out how to handle the response from the a SOAP host Here is the Log that I am getting from the SOAP response

[2014-05-09 12:53:43.124] [I] out parameters...

[2014-05-09 12:53:43.135] [I] out parameters available:

[2014-05-09 12:53:43.136] [I]   + parameter name: 'GetRequestStatusResult', value: '<Response>

  <OutputParameters>

    <ServiceRequestID>SR138917  </ServiceRequestID>

    <ServiceRequestStatus>DEPLOYING OS</ServiceRequestStatus>

    <ServiceRequestCreated>5/9/2014 3:20:25 PM</ServiceRequestCreated>

    <ServiceRequestCompleted></ServiceRequestCompleted>

    <CurrentActivity>MA138921</CurrentActivity>

    <CurrentActivityTitle>DEPLOYING OS</CurrentActivityTitle>

    <ActivityStartUTC>05/09/2014 15:32</ActivityStartUTC>

    <ActivityEndUTC></ActivityEndUTC>

    <DurationTotalSeconds></DurationTotalSeconds>

    <AverageDurationSeconds></AverageDurationSeconds>

    <SecondsOffAverage></SecondsOffAverage>

    <EstimatedCompletionUTC></EstimatedCompletionUTC>

  </OutputParameters>

  <Warnings></Warnings>

  <Exceptions></Exceptions>

</Response>'

Will it be best to try and just parse the text or try and use another method with vCO

[iiliev]

Hi,

Parsing it with E4X is pretty easy. For example, here is a snippet showing how to parse and fetch the value of 'ServiceRequestCreated' element:

var content = ...; // the XML text value of GetRequestStatusResult parameter above ( '<Response> ...  </Response>' )
var doc = new XML(content); // parse the whole response
System.log(" service request created on -> " + doc.OutputParameters.ServiceRequestCreated);

[Dan_Linsley · Accepted solution]

If you haven't yet, take a look at the com.vmware.libarary.soap.processOutParameters action.  It is the action that generated the log you have shown us.  It generates a Properties object (key, value pairs) which has the value for each resulting parameter.

In your case, assuming "outProps" is the output of the action mentioned above, you can use:

var getRequestStatusResult = outProps.get("GetRequestStatusResult");

And parse the XML with E4X as Ilian has shown.

[segadson]

Hey I have a question.  How come when i use that information I can log the correct information but i cant set that information as a variable so I can use it elsewhere in the workflow