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Deserialize Google Web Kit Response (Java) and Java Servlets

I have a monolithic legacy application that I need to read and submit data to. It's using Google Web Kit and Java Servlets.
I have access to the source code, but I'm new to both Servlets and GWT.
I'm trying to encapsulate a rest client in my project that can communicate with GET/POST rest calls to the legacy server.
I've been able to send a POST request using Postman, and then used Reactive Spring 5.0 framework to sending that request.
When I try to deserialize the response, I'm running into a ton of errors.
How would I deserialize this payload?
7|0|7|http://localhost:8080/testproject/
|29F4EA1240F157649C12466F01F46F60|
com.test.client.GreetingService|greetServer|java.lang.String|
myInput1|myInput2|1|2|3|4|2|5|5|6|7|
I've searched all day, and followed a few blogs like these:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eG0YocsYYbNAtivkLtcaiEE5IOF5u4LUol8-LL0TIKU/edit#
https://blog.gdssecurity.com/labs/2009/10/8/gwt-rpc-in-a-nutshell.html
I'm not sure code wise how I can serialize them into my own object for my new service.
static WebClient webClient = WebClient.create();
public static void main(String[] args) {
Mono<String> body = Mono.just("7|0|7|http://localhost:8080/testproject/|29F4EA1240F157649C12466F01F46F60|com.test.client.GreetingService|greetServer|java.lang.String|myInput1|myInput2|1|2|3|4|2|5|5|6|7|");
Mono<String> response = webClient.post()
.uri("http://localhost:8080/testproject/")
.header("Content-Type", "text/x-gwt-rpc;charset=UTF-8")
.header("X-GWT-Module-Base", "http://localhost:8080/testproject/")
.header("X-GWT-Permutation", "29F4EA1240F157649C12466F01F46F60")
.cookie("JSESSIONID", "2BCEBF12GE2C3A0335F5012812A73638")
.body(body, String.class)
.retrieve()
.bodyToMono(String.class);
String unBlocked = response.block();
System.out.println(unBlocked);
//OK[1,1,["java.lang.Integer/3438228391"],0,2]
try {
ServerSerializationStreamReader streamReader = new ServerSerializationStreamReader(
Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(), null);
streamReader.prepareToRead(unBlocked);
System.out.println(streamReader.readObject());
} catch ( Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Error:
com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.IncompatibleRemoteServiceException: This application is out of date, please click the refresh button on your browser. ( Malformed or old RPC message received - expecting version between 5 and 7 )
I've tried every version of GWT because of the malformed RCP message.
Also, I tried to stick it into a string, which I'm sure is failing on its own.

You are trying to decode the server response with the code meant decode the client request. At present they use a different format for historical reasons - note how the response starts with "//OK", but the request has the version/flags/stringcount "7|0|7" beginning.
In at least a small part this is because when a client calls a server, it needs to describe what version it is speaking and where the server should find the file listing the set of classes that the client expects are allowed to be serialized. When the server responds, since the client already told it about the typed that can be serialized, it doesn't need to tell the client the same thing again.
Reading the com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.impl.ClientSerializationStreamReader class and its docs will show the response format and how it can be decoded into objects. There is presently no server-side code that I'm aware of that is intended to do this job, but could probably be written with fairly little difficulty, just some persistence.

Accessing OneNote API from Java

I am interested in writing a Java application that can access my OneNote notebooks via the OneNote API. I am not sure how to gain access to that API from within Java. Can anybody point me to an example of how to get started here? I use Eclipse as my development environment.

This as straightforward process.
The 3 steps would be:
1) create a OneNote application on the OneNote developper's page. More info here https://dev.onedrive.com/app-registration.htm. This is a one time action.
2) your java application should then provide an authentification mechanism and a tolken-refresh mechanism.
See this post for more info on the authentification mechanism part : Getting a OneNote token with Java. This post is about the OAuth 2.0 flow 'Authorization code grant flow'. More info here https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh243647.aspx#flows
3) your java application calls adhoc API Rest methods to retreive the needed informations.
Example to retrieve all your notebooks (using OkHttp for Http requests):
private final static String NOTEBOOKS_ENDPOINT = "https://www.onenote.com/api/v1.0/me/notes/notebooks";
public Notebooks readAllNoteBooks() {
try {
if (client == null)
client = new OkHttpClient();
Request request = createOneNoteRequest(a_valid_tolken, NOTEBOOKS_ENDPOINT);
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
JsonObject content = UrlHelper.parseResponse(response);
System.out.println(content);
return Notebooks.build(content.get("value"));
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
public static Request createOneNoteRequest(String mAccessToken, String url) {
Request.Builder reqBuilder = new Request.Builder();
reqBuilder.url(url);
reqBuilder.header("Authorization", "Bearer " + mAccessToken);
return reqBuilder.build();
}
NoteBooks and NoteBook are 2 tiny classes matching the key attributes from the OneNote objects.

Microsoft has provided REST apis for accessing One note functionalities like creating and accessing notes. See OneNote Rest API reference.

singrass,
In addition to the above replies, the Android OneNote API sample may also help you. There is no OneNote application class that you can create (unless you want to create your own). You simply call the API through the HttpClient. If you are unfamiliar on how to call REST APIs in Java in general, this thread may help you.
-- James

SOAP web service calls from Javascript

I'm struggling to successfully make a web service call to a SOAP web service from a web page. The web service is a Java web service that uses JAX-WS.
Here is the web method that I'm trying to call:
#WebMethod
public String sayHi(#WebParam(name="name") String name)
{
System.out.println("Hello "+name+"!");
return "Hello "+name+"!";
}
I've tried doing the web service call using the JQuery library jqSOAPClient (http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jqSOAPClient).
Here is the code that I've used:
var processResponse = function(respObj)
{
alert("Response received: "+respObj);
};
SOAPClient.Proxy = url;
var body = new SOAPObject("sayHi");
body.ns = ns;
body.appendChild(new SOAPObject("name").val("Bernhard"));
var sr = new SOAPRequest(ns+"sayHi",body);
SOAPClient.SendRequest(sr,processResponse);
No response seems to be coming back. When in jqSOAPClient.js I log the xData.responseXML data member I get 'undefined'. In the web service I see the warning
24 Mar 2011 10:49:51 AM com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.server.WSHttpHandler handleExchange
WARNING: Cannot handle HTTP method: OPTIONS
I've also tried using a javascript library, soapclient.js (http://www.codeproject.com/kb/Ajax/JavaScriptSOAPClient.aspx). The client side code that I use here is
var processResponse = function(respObj)
{
alert("Response received: "+respObj);
};
var paramaters = new SOAPClientParameters();
paramaters.add("name","Bernhard");
SOAPClient.invoke(url,"sayHi",paramaters,true,processResponse);
I've bypassed the part in soapclient.js that fetches the WSDL, since it doesn't work
(I get an: IOException: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine on the web service side). The WSDL is only retrieved for the appropriate name space to use, so I've just replaced the variable ns with the actual name space.
I get exactly the same warning on the web service as before (cannot handle HTTP method: OPTIONS) and in the browser's error console I get the error "document is null". When I log the value of req.responseXML in soapclient.js I see that it is null.
Could anyone advise on what might be going wrong and what I should do to get this to work?

I found out what was going on here. It is the same scenario as in this thread: jQuery $.ajax(), $.post sending "OPTIONS" as REQUEST_METHOD in Firefox.
Basically I'm using Firefox and when one is doing a cross domain call (domain of the address of the web service is not the same as the domain of the web page) from Firefox using AJAX, Firefox first sends an OPTIONS HTTP-message (before it transmits the POST message), to determine from the web service if the call should be allowed or not. The web service must then respond to this OPTIONS message to tell if it allows the request to come through.
Now, the warning from JAX-WS ("Cannot handle HTTP method: OPTIONS") suggests that it won't handle any OPTIONS HTTP-messages. That's ok - the web service will eventually run on Glassfish.
The question now is how I can configure Glassfish to respond to the OPTIONS message.
In the thread referenced above Juha says that he uses the following code in Django:
def send_data(request):
if request.method == "OPTIONS":
response = HttpResponse()
response['Access-Control-Allow-Origin'] = '*'
response['Access-Control-Allow-Methods'] = 'POST, GET, OPTIONS'
response['Access-Control-Max-Age'] = 1000
response['Access-Control-Allow-Headers'] = '*'
return response
if request.method == "POST":
# ...
Access-Control-Allow-Origin gives a pattern which indicates which origins (recipient addresses) will be accepted (mine might be a bit more strict than simply allowing any origin) and Access-Control-Max-Age tells after how many seconds the client will have to request permission again.
How do I do this in Glassfish?

Have you actually tested that ws is working properly?
You can use SoapUI for inspecting request/response etc.
When you confirm that ws is working from SoapUI, inspect what is format of raw Soap message. Then try to inspect how it looks before sending with .js method, and compare them.
It might help you understand what is wrong.

Check if this helps
http://bugs.jquery.com/attachment/ticket/6029/jquery-disable-firefox3-cross-domain-magic.patch
it's marked as invalid
http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/6029
but it might give you some hint
On the other hand, instead to override proper settings for cross-domain scripting might be better if you can create and call local page that will do request to ws and return result.
Or even better, you can create page that will receive url as param and do request to that url and just return result. That way it will be more generic and reusable.

Can't download with HttpClient with a different server port

I am using Apache's HttpClient via httpclient-fluent-builder to download a http page.
This is the code:
...
try {
response = Http.get("http://fr3.ah.fm:9000/played.html")
.use(client) // use this HttpClient (required)
.charset("windows-1252") // set the encoding... (optional)
.asString();
} catch (IOException e) {
Log.d(TAG, "Error: "+e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
}
Log.i(TAG, ""+ response );
...
Problem is that I get org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException
It's something with the host:port/url, beacause it works with urls without ports. I also get this same error with another Httphelper class than fluent-builder. Firewall is off.
Logcat: http://pastebin.com/yMMvvdQ3

Found out what it was via this post that it was the Shoutcast server...
You should be able to connect to 8000
with your web browser and get the DNAS
status page. If, on the other hand,
you connect to that port with a media
player, it'll return the direct MP3
stream. (Unfortunately, in an
incredibly boneheaded piece of design,
the way SHOUTcast decides which to
respond with is by sniffing your
User-Agent header for something
beginning with Mozilla, so if you're
using an alternative browser or
blocking your UA you'll not be able to
get the status, and if the stream's
down you might just get nothing.)
Drove me crazy.. But it's an easy fix. I just added.
.header("User-Agent", "UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0")

try to set the uri using HttpHost and use it in HttpClient.execute().
I have not tried it..

Implementing Java's getResponseCode() in C?

If it's any help, there is also a similar class in C#'s WebRequest. Although I do not want it in java or .NET, i am wondering how to implement this in native C/C++ code (for windows).
for reference:
try {
URL url=new URL("http://google.ca");
HttpURLConnection con=(HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
con.connect();
int code = con.getResponseCode();
System.out.println(code);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
System.err.println("Error reading URL.");
}
prints out:
200
meaning "OK"
I understand I probably need to use sockets and send a User-Agent string, but I haven't a clue where to begin. Whenever I learn a new language the first thing I like to do is try porting my code to it, but this one has stumped me.
Any help is appreciated

There is no HTTP support in standard C library.
So you have two options - use 3rd-party HTTP library, such ar libcurl, or handle HTTP yourself:
open socket
resolve hostname
connect to server
build HTTP request
send request to server
receive HTTP response
parse response and get response code from it.