Post XML Data to Externally Available Suitelet

Customer wants to POST XML Data to an Externally Available Suitelet using an application (Java, .Net etc.).

The sample code below demonstrates how to do this in Java. Notice that the XML contains some Chinese characters. This code also demonstrates how to deal with it.

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.net.*;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {

try {
//Build the XML String
StringBuilder XML = new StringBuilder();
XML.append("<Customer>");
XML.append("<InternalId>106</InternalId>");
XML.append("<Phone>+8621 8028840805</Phone>");
XML.append("<Fax>+8621 8058840806</Fax>");
XML.append("<Email>czhang@exc.com.cn</Email>");
XML.append("<Comments>大公司制作，在美国首演</Comments>");
XML.append("</Customer>");

//Convert the StringBuilder object to a String object
String XMLString = XML.toString();
System.out.println(XMLString);

//Convert the String object to bytes and encode it in UTF-8
byte[] EncodedXMLBytes = XMLString.getBytes("UTF-8");

//Connect to the Suitelet
URL url = new URL("https://forms.netsuite.com/app/site/hosting/scriptlet.nl?script=159&deploy=1&compid=TSTDRV501653&h=178b45e757bb5f2b2976");
HttpsURLConnection connection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();

connection.setUseCaches(false);
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setDoOutput(true);

//Set the Headers correctly
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/xml;charset=UTF-8");

//Submit the Request
DataOutputStream output = new DataOutputStream( connection.getOutputStream());
output.write(EncodedXMLBytes);
output.flush();
output.close();

//Get the output
System.out.println("Response Code: " + connection.getResponseCode());
System.out.println("Response Message: " + connection.getResponseMessage());

connection.disconnect();
}
catch(Exception e){
System.out.println("Error has occurred");
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}


Below is the code for the suitelet that parses the XML Data.

function postSuitelet(request,response) {
nlapiLogExecution('DEBUG', 'Method is: ', request.getMethod());
try {

//Get the XML String from the Request
var XMLRequest = request.getBody();
nlapiLogExecution('DEBUG', 'Name is: ', XMLRequest);
if(request.getMethod() == 'POST' && (XMLRequest != null || XMLRequest != '')) {
var xmlDoc = nlapiStringToXML(XMLRequest); //Conver the XML String to XML Document\

//Parse the XML Data
var customerNode = nlapiSelectNode(xmlDoc, "//*[name()='Customer']");
var customerInternalId = nlapiSelectValue(customerNode, "//*[name()='InternalId']");
var phoneNum = nlapiSelectValue(customerNode, "//*[name()='Phone']");
var faxNum = nlapiSelectValue(customerNode, "//*[name()='Fax']");
var email = nlapiSelectValue(customerNode, "//*[name()='Email']");
var comments = nlapiSelectValue(customerNode, "//*[name()='Comments']");

//Update the Record
var customerRec = nlapiLoadRecord('customer', customerInternalId);
customerRec.setFieldValue('phone', phoneNum);
customerRec.setFieldValue('fax', faxNum);
customerRec.setFieldValue('email', email);
customerRec.setFieldValue('comments', comments);

//Submit the record
nlapiSubmitRecord(customerRec, true, true);
}
}
catch (e){
throw nlapiCreateError('SUITELET_ERROR', e.name + ' ' + e.message, false);
}
 

And here is the result: