Thread: SM 7.11 web service authentication with java??

Hey kids,
I am trying to write a web service client in java to consume an SM 7.11 web service. I can't for the life of me figure out where the heck to put the username and password. The example code found in "<SM HOME>\webservices\sample\sm7webservices\Axis2Sampl e" uses method found in ServiceUtility.java:

Code:

  
public static void initServiceAuthentication(Stub servicePort, Map arguments) {
  String username = (String) arguments.get(ARGUMENT_USERNAME);
  String password = (String) arguments.get(ARGUMENT_PASSWORD);

  HttpTransportProperties.Authenticator authenticator = new Authenticator();
  List<String> auth = new ArrayList<String>();
  auth.add(Authenticator.BASIC);
  authenticator.setAuthSchemes(auth);
  authenticator.setUsername(username);
  authenticator.setPassword(password);
  authenticator.setPreemptiveAuthentication(true);

  servicePort._getServiceClient().getOptions().setProperty(
  HTTPConstants.AUTHENTICATE, authenticator);
}

Doing some searching of the other files, this method is called as so:

Code:

    
    IncidentManagementStub stub = new IncidentManagementStub(address);
    
    // set connection: close
    Header hdr = new Header(HTTPConstants.HEADER_CONNECTION, HTTPConstants.HEADER_CONNECTION_CLOSE);
    ArrayList<Header> headers = new ArrayList<Header>();
    headers.add(hdr);
    stub._getServiceClient().getOptions().setProperty(HTTPConstants.HTTP_HEADERS, headers);
    stub._getServiceClient().getOptions().setProperty(Constants.Configuration.ENABLE_MTOM,
        Constants.VALUE_TRUE);
    ServiceUtility.initServiceAuthentication(stub, arguments);

Ok, sweet. But wtf is an IncidentManagementStub? Obviously that is not a native object and I can only find imports and references of this object.
Any ideas on where this is coming from?
Has anyone else found a different way of doing authentication with java and SM 7.11?
I know with SOAPUI in SM 7.11 you have to set the basic authentication in the header. But I don't see any available objects that have anything to do with authentication.

Ideas?

The java examples expect the username and password on the command line when calling them, as "-username blah -password blah".

Yep, I suspect that is where these two lines come in:

Code:

  
  String username = (String) arguments.get(ARGUMENT_USERNAME);
  String password = (String) arguments.get(ARGUMENT_PASSWORD);

But I need to understand how they get from the command line to the SOAP message.

Check the ArgumentUtility.java file

Code:

/*
 * (C) Copyright Hewlett-Packard Company, LP - All Rights Reserved.
 */
package com.hp.sm.webservice.sample;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * A utility class for parsing command line arguments.
 */
public class ArgumentUtility
{

  /**
   * Parses the given arguments based on the given list of valid required
   * arguments, filling the given map with the argument's value.
   *
   * @param arguments The command line arguments to parse
   * @param validArguments A list of valid required arguments
   * @param argumentValues Map of argument to value
   */
  public static void parseArguments(String[] arguments, List validArguments,
      Map<String, String> argumentValues)
  {
    if (arguments.length == 0 && validArguments.size() != 0) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("No arguments given.");
    }

    for (int index = 0; index < arguments.length; index++)
    {
      String argument = arguments[index];
      String value = null;

      index++;
      if (index < arguments.length)
      {
        value = arguments[index];
      }
      else
      {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("No value for argument '" + argument
            + "' provided.");
      }

      if (validArguments.contains(argument))
      {
        argumentValues.put(argument, value);
      }
      else
      {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid argument '" + argument
            + "'.");
      }
    }

  }
}

Thanks for the replies leonv. I am not being very clear. Sorry.

I am writing a custom web services client and I don't know where to set the user name and password. Here is my code thus far.

Code:

    BomgarUpdatesService.BomgarUpdates_Service serv = new BomgarUpdatesService.BomgarUpdates_Service();
    BomgarUpdatesService.BomgarUpdates port = serv.getBomgarUpdates();


    StringType s = new StringType();
    BomgarUpdatesInstanceType instance = new BomgarUpdatesInstanceType();

    s.setValue("test");
    instance.setLSID(s);

    s.setValue("IM10001");
    instance.setExternalKey(s);

    s.setValue( "NEW");
    instance.setStatus(s);

    BomgarUpdatesModelType model = new BomgarUpdatesModelType();
    model.setInstance(instance);


    InsertBomgarUpdatesRequest req = new InsertBomgarUpdatesRequest();
    req.setModel(model);

    InsertBomgarUpdatesResponse res = port.insertBomgarUpdates(req);

But none of the object have any place to put any credentials/authentication/username/pw. I was referencing the sample code to see how they did it, but it is not helpful because I don't know where this "IncidentManagementStub" object comes from.

I looked at the php examples in this forum and that code sticks the username/pw in the soap header, but I am unsure how to reference the soap header in java. In my experience that is abstracted out by java objects.

Any ideas?

Well..... This seems to be a problem with Netbeans not properly generating the "Stubs". I created a new project using eclipse and a few new classes were created. One being a "IncidentManagement_BindingStub" that happens to have the necessary methods to set the username and password. Damn. I really like netbeans