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Is there any method to create radio button in com.ibm.cics.server

The java API for CICS is here. Does anyone know if there any method to put a couple of radio buttons to a web form using this API?
Here's my code to create radio button
HttpRequest req = HttpRequest.getHttpRequestInstance();
String msg = "ZEUSBANK ANTI-FRAUD CHECK BY SHE0008.<br> "
+ "When investigation is complete. Tick the check box and submit.<br>";
String template = "<form><input type=\"radio\"> YES<br><input type=\"radio\"> NO<br></form>";
HttpResponse resp = new HttpResponse();
Document doc = new Document();
doc.createText(msg);
doc.appendFromTemplate(template);
resp.setMediaType("text/plain");
resp.sendDocument(doc, (short)200, "OK", ASCII);
But when I run it on a browser, it print plain text and doesn't convert html tag.

Fixed it, I just change media type from text/plain to text/html and it works.

As you've already discovered, you needed to send the request with the text/html content type.
If you're planning to do more Java web-based work through CICS Java, you might want to investigate the embedded WebSphere Liberty. It adds support for Java EE features, which includes JSF, JSP and Servlets, which can make web development in Java a lot easier.

Tri,
I haven't used CICS for 15 years, so I doubt I'm an expert anymore. But looking quickly at the API, it seems like all the presentation logic would be in your regular Java code. You would then format appropriate messages and invoke the CICS API to update the server & get a response.
There doesn't seem to be any 'BMS-related' methods at all (which is a good thing).
The only 'field' method I see is com.ibm.cics.server.FormField but that only has get() methods, not set().
Are you just starting with Java CICS, or are you just stuck on this particular issue? If you have some sample code of what you are trying, post it so we can see if anyone has any ideas.
HTH, Jim

Adding custom step definitions to Karate framework

I have a need to extract a field parsed from a "complex" response header and use that value later in the test.
It seems that the "header" keyword in Karate is set up for setting request headers, not parsing response headers.
Is there a way to add a custom step definition maintaining access to the scenario variable stores? It appears the variable stores are private in the StepDefs class, and there doesn't seem to be a way to extend it easily.

You can get access to the response headers. Please look at the documentation for responseHeaders.
That said, the match header short-cut is most likely what you are looking for.
Karate's philosophy is that you never need to write custom step-definitions.
edit: some examples, sounds like you just need to do some string manipulation of the Location header ? You can freely mix JS code into Karate expressions.
* def location = responseHeaders['Location'][0]
# assume location = 'foo?bar=baz'
* def bar = location.substring(location.indexOf('bar=') + 4)

TwilioRestClient for java not working

I have been trying to use the TwilioRestClient.Builder class in order to send out an sms using my Twilio number.
I have been using this piece of code within a MessageCreator class:
messageCreator = new TwilioMessageCreator(
newTwilioRestClient.Builder(credentials.getAccountSid(),credentials.getAuthToken())
.build()
);
However, when I use this piece of code in another class, I receive this exception:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/ProtocolVersion com.twilio.http.TwilioRestClient$Builder.<init>(TwilioRestClient.java:66)
This seems to indicate some problem with the TwilioRestClient.Builder() method, but I am unable to identify the issue.
I hope I can get an answer to this!

It is possible you are using version 6.x at the moment, the example of TwilioRestClient.Builder you are looking at is for version 7.x of the java library.
You can check here how you send messages with version 6.x: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/sending-messages
Please let me know if this helps.

PHP how to consume SOAP web services?

I'm very new in using web services. Appreciate if anyone can help me on this.
In my PHP codes, I'm trying to use the SOAP web services from another server (JIRA, java). The JIRA SOAP API is shown here.
$jirasoap = new SoapClient($jiraserver['url']);
$token = $jirasoap->login($jiraserver['username'], $jiraserver['password']);
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "issuekey");
I found that my codes have no problem to call the functions listed on that page. However, I don't know how to use the objects returned by the API calls.
My question are:
In my PHP codes, how can I use the methods in the Java class objects returned by SOAP API calls?
For example, the function $remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($a, $b) will return a RemoteIssue. Based on this (http://docs.atlassian.com/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/com/atlassian/jira/rpc/soap/beans/RemoteIssue.html), there are methods like getSummary, getKey, etc. How can I use these functions in my codes?
Based on some PHP examples I found from the internet, it seems that everyone is using something like this:
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "issuekey");
$key = $remoteissue->key;
They are not using the object's methods.
Refer to this example, it seems that someone is able to do this in other languages. Can it be done in PHP too?
The problem I'm facing is that, I am trying to get the ID of an Attachment. However, it seems that we can't get the Attachment ID using this method: $attachmentid = $remoteattachment->id;. I am trying to use the $remoteattachment->getId() method.
In PHP codes, after we made a SOAP API call and received the returned objects, how do we know what data fields are available in that object?
For example,
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "issuekey");
$summary = $remoteissue->summary;
How do we know ->summary is available in $remoteissue?
When i refer to this document (http://docs.atlassian.com/rpc-jira-plugin/latest/com/atlassian/jira/rpc/soap/beans/RemoteIssue.html), I don't see it mention any data fields in RemoteIssue. How do we know we can get key, summary, etc, from this object? How do we know it is ->summary, not ->getsummary? We need to use a web browser to open the WSDL URL?
Thanks.

This question is over one year old, but to share knowledge and provide an answer to people who have this same question and found this page, here are my findings.
The document mentioned in the question is an overview of the JiraSoapService interface. This is a good reference for what functions can be called with which arguments and what they return.
If you use Java for your Jira SoapClient the returned objects are implemented, but if you use PHP, the returned objects aren't of the type stated in this documentation and do not have any of the methods mentioned. The returned objects are instances of the internal PHP class stdClass, which is a placeholder for undefined objects. The best way to know what is returned is to use var_dump() on the objects returned from the SoapCalls.
$jirasoap = new SoapClient($jiraserver['url']);
$token = $jirasoap->login($jiraserver['username'], $jiraserver['password']);
$remoteissue = $jirasoap->getIssue($token, "PROJ-1");
var_dump($remoteissue);
/* -- You will get something like this ---
object(stdClass)#2 (21) {
["id"]=> string(3) "100"
["affectsVersions"]=> array(0) { }
["assignee"]=> string(4) "user"
...
["created"]=> string(24) "2012-12-13T09:27:49.934Z"
...
["description"]=> string(17) "issue description"
....
["key"]=> string(6) "PROJ-1"
["priority"]=> string(1) "3"
["project"]=> string(4) "PROJ"
["reporter"]=> string(4) "user"
["resolution"]=> NULL
["status"]=> string(1) "1"
["summary"]=> string(15) "Project issue 1"
["type"]=> string(1) "3"
["updated"]=> string(24) "2013-01-21T16:11:43.073Z"
["votes"]=> int(0)
}
*/
// You can access data like this:
$jiraKey = $remoteissue->key;
$jiraProject = $remoteissue->project;

The document you referred to in #2 is to a Java implementation and really doesn't give you any help with PHP. If they do not publish a public API for their service (which would be unusual), then using the WSDL as a reference will let you know what objects and methods are accepted by the service and you can plan your method calls accordingly.
The technique you used to call getIssue(...) seems fine, although you should consider using try...catch in case of a SoapException.

I have used Jira SOAP in .NET project and IntelliSense hinted me what fields are available for returned object.
You can use something like VS.Php for Visual Studio or Php for Visual Studio if you are using Visual Studio.
Or you can choose one of the IDEs from here with support of IntelliSense.

Sending custom object as a parameter for a web-service

How can one specify a custom object as a parameter for the web-service's method when invoking through SOAP message?
Say I have this code:
SOAPElement operation = body.addChildElement("MyMethod", "", trgNamespace);
SOAPElement value = operation.addChildElement("arg0");
value.addTextNode("i need to send here a custom object not a string")
request.saveChanges();
The addTextNode sends a string whereas I need to send my own object as a parameter for invocation.

You have to serialize your object to transfer it over the line. Serialization is often done using XML or JSON, see the following link for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serialization
That should get you on the right path.

Maybe try higher level and use wsdl-based stubs generator for java? It's Axis wsdl to java

I could think of another approach
You can send that custom object as a binary data (I assume your object is serialize-able). Then encode that data in say Base64 encoding.
There is similar problem asked earlier. Plz check out this link. This seems most relevant to your problem.
Another link mentioned in the above posting gives nice overview of handling these type of problems in general.