Extracting the Price List

This section demonstrates (1) retrieving the price list that is contained in response, the SOAPMessage object returned by the method call, and (2) returning the price list as a PriceListBean.

The code creates an empty Vector object that will hold the coffee-name and price elements that are extracted from response. Then the code uses response to access its SOAPBody object, which holds the message’s content.

Vector<String> list = new Vector<String>();

SOAPBody responseBody = response.getSOAPBody();

The next step is to retrieve the SOAPBodyElement object. The method getChildElements returns an Iterator object that contains all the child elements of the element on which it is called, so in the following lines of code, it1 contains the SOAPBodyElement object bodyEl, which represents the price-list element.

Iterator it1 = responseBody.getChildElements();
 while (it1.hasNext()) {
     SOAPBodyElement bodyEl = (SOAPBodyElement)it1.next();

The Iterator object it2 holds the child elements of bodyEl, which represent coffee elements. Calling the method next on it2 retrieves the first coffee element in bodyEl. As long as it2 has another element, the method next will return the next coffee element.

    Iterator it2 = bodyEl.getChildElements();
    while (it2.hasNext()) {
        SOAPElement child2 = (SOAPElement)it2.next();

The next lines of code drill down another level to retrieve the coffee-name and price elements contained in it3. Then the message getValue retrieves the text (a coffee name or a price) that the SAAJ coffee supplier added to the coffee-name and price elements when it gave content to response. The final line in the following code fragment adds the coffee name or price to the Vector object list. Note that because of the nested while loops, for each coffee element that the code retrieves, both of its child elements (the coffee-name and price elements) are retrieved.

        Iterator it3 = child2.getChildElements();
        while (it3.hasNext()) {
            SOAPElement child3 = (SOAPElement)it3.next();
            String value = child3.getValue();
            list.addElement(value);
        }
    }
}

The final code fragment adds the coffee names and their prices (as a PriceListItem) to the ArrayList priceItems, and prints each pair on a separate line. Finally it constructs and returns a PriceListBean.

ArrayList<PriceItemBean> items = new ArrayList<PriceItemBean>();
for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i = i + 2) {
    PriceItemBean pib = new PriceItemBean();
    pib.setCoffeeName(list.elementAt(i).toString());
    pib.setPricePerPound(new BigDecimal(list.elementAt(i + 1).toString()));
    items.add(pib);
    System.out.print(list.elementAt(i) + "        ");
    System.out.println(list.elementAt(i + 1));
}

Date today = new Date();
Date endDate = DateHelper.addDays(today, 30);
GregorianCalendar todayCal = new GregorianCalendar();
todayCal.setTime(today);
GregorianCalendar cal = new GregorianCalendar();
cal.setTime(endDate);
plb = new PriceListBean();
plb.setStartDate(DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(todayCal));

List<PriceItemBean> priceItems = new ArrayList<PriceItemBean>();
Iterator<PriceItemBean> i = items.iterator();
while (i.hasNext()) {
    PriceItemBean pib = i.next();
    plb.getPriceItems().add(pib);
}

plb.setEndDate(DatatypeFactory.newInstance().newXMLGregorianCalendar(cal));