I need to consume a SOAP web service which, naturally, sends its response in XML, since I'm developing a Appcelerator Titanium mobile app I would prefer the response in JSON. After looking online I converted the response using this Javascript code, it mostly worked but returned results such as the following:
{
SOAP-ENV:Body : {
ns1:linkAppResponse : {
ns1:result : {
#text : true;
};
ns1:uuid : {
#text : a3dd915e-b4e4-43e0-a0e7-3c270e5e7aae;
};
};
};
}
Of course the colons and hashes in the caused problems so I adjusted the code to do a substring on the name and drop off anything before the ':', then a stringified the resulting JSON, removed all the hashes and parsed the JSON again. This is a bit messy for my liking but I end up with something usable.
Here is the xmlToJson code I'm using:
// Changes XML to JSON
function xmlToJson(xml) {
// Create the return object
var obj = {};
if (xml.nodeType == 1) {// element
// do attributes
if (xml.attributes.length > 0) {
obj[@attributes] = {};
for (var j = 0; j < xml.attributes.length; j++) {
var attribute = xml.attributes.item(j);
obj[@attributes][attribute.nodeName] = attribute.nodeValue;
}
}
} else if (xml.nodeType == 3) {// text
obj = xml.nodeValue;
}
// do children
if (xml.hasChildNodes()) {
for (var i = 0; i < xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
var item = xml.childNodes.item(i);
var nodeName = item.nodeName.substring(item.nodeName.indexOf(:) + 1);
if ( typeof (obj[nodeName]) == undefined) {
obj[nodeName] = xmlToJson(item);
} else {
if ( typeof (obj[nodeName].push) == undefined) {
var old = obj[nodeName];
obj[nodeName] = [];
obj[nodeName].push(old);
}
obj[nodeName].push(xmlToJson(item));
}
}
}
return obj;
};
module.exports = xmlToJson;
Which results in the following JSON:
{
Body : {
linkAppResponse : {
result : {
text : true;
};
uuid : {
text : 9022d249-ea8a-47a3-883c-0f4cfc9d6494;
};
};
};
}
While this returns a JSON object I can use, I would prefer to have the resulting JSON in the following form:
{
result : true;
uuid : 9022d249-ea8a-47a3-883c-0f4cfc9d6494;
};
Mostly so it's less verbose and I can simply call json.result in order check if the query was successful instead of json.Body.linkAppResponse.result.text
Any help is greatly appreciated.
