Posting XML SOAP Requests With jQuery

Posted February 16, 2010 at 10:10 AM by Ben Nadel

Tags: ColdFusion, Javascript / DHTML

Reader Comments

do you have a sample of this using PHP?
thanks.

@Jing,

I don't know much of anything about PHP.

can you please point me to the jquery documentation on the following
# // Create our SOAP body content based off of
# // the template.
# var soapBody = soapTemplate.html().replace(
# new RegExp( "\\$\\{[^}]+\\}", "i" ),
# zip.val());

inparticular the replace method and RegExp object.

I have not been able to find either at http://api.jquery.com/

Thank You

@Jason,

The RegExp object and the replace method are parts of the core Javascript language; they are not part of jQuery.

I there,

Thanks for your post, it's great!
I'm doing something similar but the request needs to be done through ssl and the client needs to send a certificate too. Do you have any idea of how the JavaScript code can be changed to reflect this?

cheers

@Miguel,

Have you tried just switching to an HTTPS address? As long as the page that contains the jQuery is also HTTPS, I can't see why an SSL connection would fail (in theory - not sure if this is true).

I had read a previous blog post of yours about the troubles you were having with getHTTPRequestData and "Premature end of file" errors. Did you resolve or work around that? If yes, how? Tx!

@Matt,

I *did* find a work-around to the problem... sort of. It's wicked complex and very robust, but it seems to work. I used to intercept "ColdFusion-as-a-Service" requests to grab incoming SOAP images manipulation requests and add my own watermark to the images before they were returned.

http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1774-Intercepting-ColdFusion-As-A-Service-SOAP-And-RESTful-Component-Requests.htm

It came down to actually grabbing the SOAP request, examining it, and then RE-posting it to the local server for the actual processing (then intercepting the return, mutating it, and returning it manually).

Like I said - way overly complicated; but, it's the only thing I could ever come up with.

How does the code below change if there are more than one parameters to pass (i.e. not only zip):

I flagged the regex and just did something like this:

Hi Ben,
Could you show us how to work with just a subset of the returned XML. I managed to get your jquery/ajax example working, but it's a huge SOAP XML return with "soap:envelope" and "table:diffgr" etc crapola all over the place and I want to just get down to the data that matters.

Without the jquery/Ajax, I managed to narrow down the xml to the subset I needed using:

Can I do something similar in the jQuery?

@Paul,

Definitely your replace() function is totally fine. There's really no need to use a regular expression in this case; I am just so used to using them. I am glad you got it working.

I am not sure what you are asking about the XML ? Are you talking about handling it on the server-side?

it's work on ie(9) if i comment

/********************/
beforeSend: function( xhr ){
// Pass the target URL onto the proxy.
xhr.setRequestHeader(
"SOAPTarget",
"http://www.webservicex.net/Rate.asmx"
);

// Pass the action onto the proxy.
xhr.setRequestHeader(
"SOAPAction",
"http://www.webserviceX.NET/Get_rateby"
);
},
/**********************/

but don't work on firefox(3.6.17) and Google Chrome(12.0))

Hi,
I'm using this to access a java/glassfish web service.

The code is quite simple, it's only to test it.

The content of my soapBody is working (in php) but here the response is the content of your ColdFusion proxy.

What am I doing wrong ?

Oh and there is no soapAction header because the field is empty in my wsdl.

I'm studying it now and I'm glad finding this article, very helpful for me.

Hi, i'm trying to call a php soap webservice with a jQuery.ajax call using. i found this article and use your approach to make the call.

now the call response me "XML error on line 1 col 61 byte 61 not well-formed (invalid token)" in the "SOAP-ENV:Parser"

i have this php webservice

http://choizez.com/modules/mod_SurveyStream/webservice.php/

with a method "getSurveyList" that accept two parameters "start" and "count" (both int) and return a multi-array

i use the same method from php and it returns me a correct response

the "data" field in jQuery ajax call is:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<getSurveyList xlns="http://choizez.com/modules/mod_SurveyStream/webservice.php/">
<start>0</start>
<count>10</count>
</getSurveyList>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

i'm trying to solve it but i've no luck and low experience with soap, any suggest?

I am not geing any data. Getting an error.
Kindly Help :

I am having snippet_1.cfm in my local system folder named "A_Test" and HTML file "Result_Test" under the same folder.
And having jquery-1.4.1.js file under the "A_Test" folder.

I am giving the path :
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.4.1.js"></script>

url: "./snippet_1.cfm"

Please suggest.

Here is the proxy implementation in PHP.

This does not error check but works with the exact same jquery call.

<?php
$action = $_SERVER['HTTP_SOAPACTION'];
$target = $_SERVER['HTTP_SOAPTARGET'];
$soap_body = file_get_contents('php://input');

$headers = array(
"Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
"Accept: text/xml",
"Cache-Control: no-cache",
"Pragma: no-cache",
"SOAPAction: ".$action,
"Content-length: ".strlen($soap_body),
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $target);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $soap_body);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo($response);
?>

Hello Ben,

Thanks for this great tutorial, been trying to follow but it I get soap_proxy.cfm as my response in the firebug.

Where am I going wrong: Below is my code;

*************************************************

function getToken(username, password, appId)
{

var soapMessage =
'soap12:Envelope
soap12:Body
AdminLogin xmlns="http://www.omnibridge.com/SDKWebServices/Core"
UserName'+username+'UserName
Password'+password+'Password
ApplicationID'+appId+'pplicationID
AdminLogin
soap12:Body
soap12:Envelope';

$.ajax({
beforeSend:
function( xhr ){
// Pass the target URL onto the proxy.
xhr.setRequestHeader(
"SOAPTarget",
"http://api.fm-web.co.za/webservices/CoreWebSvc/CoreWS.asmx"
);

// Pass the action onto the proxy.
xhr.setRequestHeader(
"SOAPAction",
"http://www.omnibridge.com/SDKWebServices/Core/AdminLogin"
);
},
url: 'http://localhost/supr/soap_proxy.cfm',
type: "POST",
dataType: "xml",
data: soapMessage,
processData: false,
contentType: "text/xml; charset=\"utf-8\"",
success: function(returnedXMLResponse){
$('CoreLoginResult', returnedXMLResponse).each(function()
{
var feedback = $(this).find("Indicator").text();
alert(feedback);
});
} // End Success
});
return false;
}

************************************************

I welcome any help!

Thanks

hi i was try your code sample but aget this error "500 Internal Server Error" , can you help me?

By the way, if you need help testing your SOAP service, a good tool to use is SoapUI. It's written in Java and is a free download from http://www.soapui.org

Hi, i'm trying to configure this env in my desktop but alway get the same parseerror tag... whatever SOAPTarget I try to connect... I believe its some colddusion issue i have not configured...
the errors are:

Any idea how could i solve this? may the cf proxy need something to be configured i have missed?

TY

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