Manipulating SharePoint list items with Android (JAVA) and NTLM Authentication

Posted by on July 23, 2011 Leave a comment (4) Go to comments

Android LogoRegarding to my previous post about manipulation of SharePoint list items with PHP I have been struggling with the same problem to connect SharePoint Web Services to Android even longer. I was able to come up with a solution quite fast but the SharePoint site had to be enabled for anonious access. And another issue here: you can just read the SharePoint Web Service. Don’t forget to include KSOAP2 library as external JAR.

I was browsing for some kind of a solution for quite some time. And if there were some kind of directions towards a probable solution I was not developer enough to figure it out on my own.

The sample without the need of authentication I was able to figure out with help from article in stackoverflow.com. If you google a bit you will find quite a bunch of articles about changing temparature or about the halloworld webservice. Both of them hosted in http://tempuri.org. The article is talking about calling a .NET WebService to change Celsius to Farenheit and vice versa. Anyways… was a very good start.

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package com.balavec.ws;

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.method.ScrollingMovementMethod;
import android.widget.TextView;

public class wsActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
   
    TextView tv;
   
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
       
        tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        tv.setMovementMethod(ScrollingMovementMethod.getInstance());
       
       
        HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://localhost/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx");

        try {
            StringEntity se = new StringEntity( "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><GetListItems xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/"><listName>quotes</listName><rowLimit>50</rowLimit></GetListItems></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>", HTTP.UTF_8);
            se.setContentType("text/xml");
            httppost.setEntity(se);

            HttpResponse httpresponse = httpclient.execute(httppost);
            HttpEntity resEntity = httpresponse.getEntity();
            tv.setText("Status OK: \n" + EntityUtils.toString(resEntity));

        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
            tv.setText("Status NOT OK: \n" + e.getMessage());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
            tv.setText("Status NOT OK: \n" + e.getMessage());
        }
       
    }
}

But if you want to lock your Web Services (SharePoint Lists) behind NTLM (windows) authentication, you will have to include KSOAP2 and JCIFS library.

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package com.balavec.ws;

import java.io.IOException;
import jcifs.ntlmssp.Type1Message;
import jcifs.ntlmssp.Type2Message;
import jcifs.ntlmssp.Type3Message;
import jcifs.util.Base64;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.entity.StringEntity;
import org.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMScheme;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.params.CoreProtocolPNames;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpConnectionParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.text.method.ScrollingMovementMethod;
import android.widget.TextView;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScheme;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthSchemeFactory;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.NTCredentials;
import org.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngine;
import org.apache.http.impl.auth.NTLMEngineException;

public class wsActivity extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
       
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
           
        TextView tv = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.textView1);
        tv.setMovementMethod(ScrollingMovementMethod.getInstance());
               
        HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();        
        ((AbstractHttpClient) httpclient).getAuthSchemes().register("ntlm",new NTLMSchemeFactory());

        NTCredentials creds = new NTCredentials("username", "password", "", "domain");

        ((AbstractHttpClient) httpclient).getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(AuthScope.ANY, creds);
        HttpConnectionParams.setConnectionTimeout(httpclient.getParams(), 5000);
       
        HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://localhost/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx");
        httppost.getParams().setBooleanParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.USE_EXPECT_CONTINUE, false);
       
        try {
            StringEntity se = new StringEntity( "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><GetListItems xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/soap/"><listName>quotes</listName><rowLimit>50</rowLimit></GetListItems></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>", HTTP.UTF_8);
            se.setContentType("text/xml");
            httppost.setEntity(se);

            HttpResponse httpresponse = httpclient.execute(httppost);
            HttpEntity resEntity = httpresponse.getEntity();

            tv.setText("Status OK: \n" + EntityUtils.toString(resEntity));
   
        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            tv.setText("Status NOT OK: \n" + e.getMessage());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            tv.setText("Status NOT OK: \n" + e.getMessage());
        }
    }
 
    // JCIFSEngine
    public class JCIFSEngine implements NTLMEngine {

        public String generateType1Msg(
                String domain,
                String workstation) throws NTLMEngineException {

            Type1Message t1m = new Type1Message(
                    Type1Message.getDefaultFlags(),
                    domain,
                    workstation);
            return Base64.encode(t1m.toByteArray());
        }

        public String generateType3Msg(
                String username,
                String password,
                String domain,
                String workstation,
                String challenge) throws NTLMEngineException {
            Type2Message t2m;
            try {
                t2m = new Type2Message(Base64.decode(challenge));
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                throw new NTLMEngineException("Invalid Type2 message", ex);
            }
            Type3Message t3m = new Type3Message(
                    t2m,
                    password,
                    domain,
                    username,
                    workstation, 0);
            return Base64.encode(t3m.toByteArray());
        }

    }

    //NTLM Scheme factory
    public class NTLMSchemeFactory implements AuthSchemeFactory {

        public AuthScheme newInstance(final HttpParams params) {
            return new NTLMScheme(new JCIFSEngine());
        }
       
    }

}
Android, SharePoint 2010, SOAP, Web Services