au.edu.anu.portal.portlets.sakaiconnector.support
Class WebServiceSupport

java.lang.Object
  au.edu.anu.portal.portlets.sakaiconnector.support.WebServiceSupport

public class WebServiceSupport
extends Object

A set of services for making Web Service calls

Author:

Steve Swinsburg (steve.swinsburg@anu.edu.au)

Constructor Summary

WebServiceSupport()

Method Summary

static String

call(String endpoint, String method, Map<String,Map<String,String>> params) Make a web service call to the given endpoint, calling the method and using the params supplied

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

WebServiceSupport

public WebServiceSupport()

Method Detail

call

public static String call(String endpoint,
                          String method,
                          Map<String,Map<String,String>> params)

Make a web service call to the given endpoint, calling the method and using the params supplied

Parameters:

endpoint - wsdl url

method - method to call

params - LinkedHashMap of params: 1. Must be in order required to be sent 2. Must be keyed on the parameter name to be sent, must match the webservice param exactly or it will fail 3. Should contained a single Map of items, containing 'value' and 'type' keys 4. The type attribute will be converted and supported values are string or boolean, case insensitive

Returns:

the response, or null if any exception is thrown.