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ravs316ravs316 

Call web service using POST help needed!!

Hi all, I have problems calling a web service using the POST method. I think that I have the idea of how to do it...:S but Im not sure. Here is my code

 

 

public static String sendContent(String url,String parameters)
{
Http h = new Http();
HttpRequest req = new HttpRequest();
req.setEndpoint(url); //this is the http://myws/
req.setMethod('POST');
req.setBody(parameters);this is like parameters="var1=value1&var2=value2&var3=value3"

req.setHeader('Content-type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
req.setHeader('Content-length', String.valueOf(parameters.length()) );
HttpResponse res = h.send(req);
return res.getBody();
}

 

 

Now when i execute this the res.getBody() throws me the following error:

 

 <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1' ?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <SOAP-ENV:Fault> <faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Server</faultcode> <faultstring>Unknown exception</faultstring> <faultactor>server name:listen port</faultactor> <detail><appSpecific>Unknown Exception has occurred</appSpecific> </detail> </SOAP-ENV:Fault> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

 

 I don't really know if I'm setting the headers correctly or what is missing so Ill really appreciate your help.

 

Thank you for your time 

jeffdonthemicjeffdonthemic
It may have to do with your encoding. Check out the example on the following blog post:

http://blog.jeffdouglas.com/2009/03/16/restful-web-service-callout-using-post/

Jeff Douglas
Appirio
http:blog.jeffdouglas.com
paul-lmipaul-lmi

is the an error being thrown by SF, or just the response to your callout?  try throwing

 

system.debug('response: ' + res);

 

into your code to debug.

cheenathcheenath

You are getting back a SOAP Fault from the external server.

So it seems you are doing a form POST to a soap web service

endpoint. You will have to construct and send a soap request.