Android Client : Web service - what's the correct SOAP_ACTION, METHOD_NAME, NAMESPACE, URL I should use?

Question

if I want to use the following Web service (help.be is just an example, let's say it does exist): http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php (it's written in PHP=client's choice, not .NET) with the following WSDL :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<definitions xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" name="webservice_help" targetNamespace="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" xmlns:tns="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" xmlns:impl="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" xmlns:xsd1="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"&gt;
  <portType name="webservice_helpPortType">
    <operation name="webservice_help">
      <input message="tns:Webservice_helpRequest"/>
    </operation>
    <operation name="getLocation" parameterOrder="input">
      <input message="tns:GetLocationRequest"/>
      <output message="tns:GetLocationResponse"/>
    </operation>

    <operation name="getStationDetail" parameterOrder="input">
      <input message="tns:GetStationDetailRequest"/>
      <output message="tns:GetStationDetailResponse"/>
    </operation>
    <operation name="getStationList" parameterOrder="input">
      <input message="tns:GetStationListRequest"/>
      <output message="tns:GetStationListResponse"/>
    </operation>
  </portType>

  <binding name="webservice_helpBinding" type="tns:webservice_helpPortType">
    <soap:binding style="rpc" transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/&gt;
    <operation name="webservice_help">
      <soap:operation soapAction="urn:webservice_help#webservice_helpServer#webservice_help"/>
      <input>
        <soap:body use="encoded" namespace="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/&gt;
      </input>
    </operation>
    <operation name="getLocation">

      <soap:operation soapAction="urn:webservice_help#webservice_helpServer#getLocation"/>
      <input>
        <soap:body parts="input" use="encoded" namespace="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/&gt;
      </input>
      <output>
        <soap:body parts="return" use="encoded" namespace="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/&gt;
      </output>
    </operation>
    <operation name="getStationDetail">

      <soap:operation soapAction="urn:webservice_help#webservice_helpServer#getStationDetail"/>
      <input>
        <soap:body parts="input" use="encoded" namespace="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/&gt;
      </input>
      <output>
        <soap:body parts="return" use="encoded" namespace="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/&gt;
      </output>
    </operation>
    <operation name="getStationList">

      <soap:operation soapAction="urn:webservice_help#webservice_helpServer#getStationList"/>
      <input>
        <soap:body parts="input" use="encoded" namespace="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/&gt;
      </input>
      <output>
        <soap:body parts="return" use="encoded" namespace="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php" encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"/&gt;
      </output>
    </operation>
  </binding>

  <message name="Webservice_helpRequest"/>
  <message name="GetLocationRequest">
    <part name="input" type="xsd:array"/>
  </message>
  <message name="GetLocationResponse">
    <part name="return" type="xsd:array"/>
  </message>
  <message name="GetStationDetailRequest">
    <part name="input" type="xsd:array"/>

  </message>
  <message name="GetStationDetailResponse">
    <part name="return" type="xsd:string"/>
  </message>
  <message name="GetStationListRequest">
    <part name="input" type="xsd:array"/>
  </message>
  <message name="GetStationListResponse">
    <part name="return" type="xsd:string"/>

  </message>
  <service name="webservice_helpService">
    <port name="webservice_helpPort" binding="tns:webservice_helpBinding">
      <soap:address location="http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php"/&gt;
    </port>
  </service>
</definitions>

What is the correct SOAP_ACTION, METHOD_NAME, NAMESPACE, URL I should use below ?

I've tried with this :

public class Main extends Activity {
/** Called when the activity is first created. */

private static final String SOAP_ACTION_GETLOCATION = "getLocation";
private static final String METHOD_NAME_GETLOCATION = "getLocation";            
private static final String NAMESPACE = "http://www.help.be/webservice/";
private static final String URL = "http://www.help.be/webservice/webservice_help.php";

TextView tv;

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.TextView01);

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    SoapObject request_location = new SoapObject(NAMESPACE, METHOD_NAME_GETLOCATION);       
    request_location.addProperty("login", "login");         // -> string required 
    request_location.addProperty("password", "password");   // -> string required
    request_location.addProperty("serial", "serial");       // -> string required
    request_location.addProperty("language", "fr");         // -> string required (available « fr,nl,uk,de ») 
    request_location.addProperty("keyword", "Braine");      // -> string required

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    SoapSerializationEnvelope soapEnvelope = new SoapSerializationEnvelope(SoapEnvelope.VER11);
    //soapEnvelope.dotNet = true;                           // don't forget it for .NET WebServices !
    soapEnvelope.setOutputSoapObject(request_location);


    AndroidHttpTransport aht = new AndroidHttpTransport(URL);

    try { 
        aht.call(SOAP_ACTION_GETLOCATION, soapEnvelope); 

        // Get the SAOP Envelope back and then extract the body 
        SoapObject resultsRequestSOAP = (SoapObject) soapEnvelope.bodyIn; 

        Vector XXXX = (Vector) resultsRequestSOAP.getProperty("GetLocationResponse"); 

        int vector_size = XXXX.size(); 
        Log.i("Hub", "testat="+vector_size);

        tv.setText("OK");  

    } catch(Exception E) { 
        tv.setText("ERROR:" + E.getClass().getName() + ": " + E.getMessage());
        Log.i("Hub", "Exception E");
        Log.i("Hub", "E.getClass().getName()="+E.getClass().getName()); 
        Log.i("Hub", "E.getMessage()="+E.getMessage()); 
    } 
    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

}

}

I'm not sure of the SOAP_ACTION, METHOD_NAME, NAMESPACE, URL I have to use? because soapAction is pointing to a URN instead of a traditional URL and it's PHP and not .NET ...

also, I'm not sure if I have to use request_location.addProperty("login", "login");
of request_location.addAttribute("login", "login"); ?

=>

<message name="GetLocationRequest">
<part name="input" type="xsd:array"/>

What would you say ?

Txs for your help.

H.

EDIT : Here is some code working in PHP - I simply want to have the same but in Android/JAVA :

<?php

ini_set("soap.wsdl_cache_enabled", "0"); // disabling WSDL cache 

$request['login'] = 'login';
$request['password'] = 'password';
$request['serial'] = 'serial';
$request['language'] = 'fr';

  $client= new SoapClient("http://www.test.be/webservice/webservice_test.wsdl");    

print_r( $client->__getFunctions());

?><hr><h1>getLocation</h1>
<h2>Input:</h2>
<?
$request['keyword'] = 'Bruxelles';
print_r($request);
?><h2>Result</h2><?
 $result = $client->getLocation($request);
 print_r($result);

?>

Answer 1

Hi, Here's a sample...

String SOAP_ACTION = "http://tempuri.org/Add"; 
        String METHOD_NAME = "Add"; 
        String NAMESPACE = "http://tempuri.org/"; 
        String URL = "http://www.html2xml.nl/Services/Calculator/Version1/Calculator.asmx"; 

The wsdl for the above example can be found at : http://www.html2xml.nl/Services/Calculator/Version1/Calculator.asmx?WSDL

In your case, METHOD_NAME = "getStationDetail" or METHOD_NAME = "getStationList" or METHOD_NAME = "getLocation"

Answer 2

I want to use GetCitiesByCountry method GetCitiesByCountry

What's the correct SOAP_ACTION, NAMESPACE?