I am working with the iPhone SDK and I have to process a webservice response I receive from an external service.
The response data consists of an XML string that was UTF8-encoded to a byte array.
This byte array is converted to string
This string is put into a XML wrapper element
The wrapper is returned via an HTTP response
Therefore I need to know how to convert the response data back to the XML string it used to be. Unfortunately, I cannot change the way my response is created, so I have to deal with it somehow.
Example of the raw data I get from the webservice:
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body><ExportBytesResponse xmlns="http://knowledgepark-ag.com/webservices/">
<ExportBytesResult>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</ExportBytesResult>
</ExportBytesResponse></s:Body>
How do I get back my old xml string representation hidden inside these raw bytes?
Any help is highly appreciated, I feel just stupid right now for not being able to come up with a solution.
Best Regards,
David
ExportBytesResponse is Base64 encoded, so you must first decode that node using something like this.
That will give you an NSString containing the XML. Then you can use NSXMLParser to parse your data.
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I am developing ios app which is getting data from Google endpoint ,the data is base 64 encoded on the server to a custom java object, which is then returned by the endpoint method.
On the iOS side I am able to receive the data and print the data using the generated client code.
I am facing a problem and I am unable to decode the data back in to the GTL**** endpoint auto generated class.
The decoded data shows up with some hex numbers:
My Code:
let respo2 = GTLDecodeBase64(responce) as? GTLEndpointStatusCollection
I also tried decoding using the swift classes:
let respo = NSData(base64EncodedString: responce, options: NSDataBase64DecodingOptions(rawValue: 0))
The input is base64 encoded : rO0ABXNyABNqYXZhLnV0aWwuQXJyYXlMaXN0eIHSHZnHYZ......
The desired output should have been readable data,
but instead im getting:
<aced0005 73720013 6a617661 2e757469 6c2e4172 7261794c.....
I even tried encoding, decoding the base64 decoded data with NSUTF8
but no use.
What am I doing wrong? Is it possible for data encoded on Server in Java (with custom Java objects) to be decoded back ? (I understand Google endpoint does the serialization/deserialization in between)
Thanks in advance.
You should use JSON for serialization rather than manually converting the object to a bytestring and base64 encoding it. If you are using the Endpoints libraries this is automatically done for you, simply by returning the object in your method. See the docs here for an example and the rest of the Endpoints docs for more details. To consume the API you can use the generated iOS libraries which also do this for you as per the examples here. You won't actually see any JSON unless you inspect the HTTP traffic or use the API Explorer.
It sounds like you might just be doing more work than is needed by pre-encoding the object, rather than just letting Endpoints do it for you. If you really need to manually serialize an object to some property you can use a library on the Endpoints side like Jackson to serialize the object to a string property and NSJSONSerialization on the client to convert it back to an object.
I want to post uiimage into soap service and input image is into binary formate
"<ExpenseDetailReceipt>%#</ExpenseDetailReceipt>"
and send this appdelegate.imgBMeal data
appdelegate.imgBMeal=UIImagePNGRepresentation(appdelegate.imgMeal);
as image but there is some problem and I get please send data in correct formate
please help me how to do this
Soap is basically an xml which is a string. Hence, your UIImagePNGRepresentation(appdelegate.imgMeal) method which does not return a string fails. The output of the UIIagePNGRepresentation() is an NSData object which you can covert to a string by using Base64 encoding. (You may use any other encoding of your choice). For more about coverting NSData to NSString using Base64 encoding, there is an SO link with many answers.. here. You may also need to check with your service provider about the encoding decoding parts.
I wondered if anyone knows how best to unmarshall a response from a JAX-RS/Jersey client that is returning a response from paypal. The response is URI encoded in name/value pairs. I ask because I've already written some code that unmarshalls a google geocode response, given a class hierarchy it automagically transforms the JSON response into objects, but alas I've not been able to do similar with this simpler problem.
TIMESTAMP=2011%2d06%2d03T13%3a22%3a17Z&CORRELATIONID=f708c43c1d078&ACK=Success&VERSION=56%
Thanks for any help.
You're going to need to do something like this: Parsing query strings on Android.
I built an iPhone app that is getting information from a server (this is also a server that I built).
The data from the server is XML and I use the XML parser to parse the message.
What I want is to add an image to be sent from the server, and I am asking if I can add binary data of such an image to the XML message. For example 10 tags will be text and 1 tag will be binary (the image). So when the XML parser gets to the binary tag, it inserts the data to NSDATA object and the rest of the tags will be inserted to NSString.
Does the XML parser of Cocoa can handle this situation?
If not, what do you think will be the easiest way to do this with one connection to the server so that the data from the server is sent once.
To transfer binary data wrapped in XML, encode it using e.g. Base64, which turns your binary data into characters that won't mess up your XML.
You can transfer the image data, encoded using Base64. There is this NSData category by Matt Gallagher that adds Base64 decoding support to NSData (dateFromBase64String). You can find it on his Cocoa with love website.
Mind you that encoding images in Base64 adds about 33% in file size.
I have some string values that are retrieved from json data. I need a process of converting this strings to xml format and Post it to a url
If it's inside iPhone SDK you will have to parse the string to convert it to XML, unless you can just post the xml as-is.
Anyway. To parse the XML, you have basically two easy options:
NSXMLParser
libxml2 (my preferred choice, don't know why)
Then you can use NSURLConnection class to post the information to the desired XML. There are a lot of Stackoverflow questions already covering this issue you can search and use.
You can also look at an example here.