Free Web Services - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v2.13, by Herong Yang
NDFDgenByDay - Response Message Sample
This section provides a response message sample of NDFDgenByDay Web service.
The response message of NDFDgenByDay Web service contains an XML document that provides weather forecast for the given location by days with temperature, probability of Precipitation, sky condition, and hazards condition.
After running the "Request 1" sample in the previous tutorial, look at the response window. You will see the response message of "NDFDgenByDay" in SOAP 1.1 format:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:NDFDgenByDayResponse
xmlns:ns1="http://graphical.weather.gov/xml/DWMLgen/wsdl/ndfdXML.wsdl">
<dwmlByDayOut xsi:type="xsd:string"><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?>
<dwml version="1.0" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation=
"http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/DWMLgen/schema/DWML.xsd">
<head>
<product srsName="WGS 1984" concise-name="dwmlByDay"
operational-mode="official">
<title>NOAA's National Weather Service Forecast by 12 Hour Period</title>
<field>meteorological</field>
<category>forecast</category>
<creation-date refresh-frequency="PT1H">2020-10-10T23:35:07Z</creation-date>
</product>
<source>
<more-information>http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/xml/
</more-information>
<production-center>Meteorological Development Laboratory
<sub-center>Product Generation Branch</sub-center>
</production-center>
<disclaimer>http://www.nws.noaa.gov/disclaimer.html</disclaimer>
<credit>http://www.weather.gov/</credit>
<credit-logo>http://www.weather.gov/images/xml_logo.gif</credit-logo>
<feedback>http://www.weather.gov/feedback.php</feedback>
</source>
</head>
<data>
<location>
<location-key>point1</location-key>
<point latitude="35.40" longitude="-97.60"/>
</location>
<moreWeatherInformation applicable-location="point1">
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?textField1=35.40&textField2=-97.60
</moreWeatherInformation>
<time-layout time-coordinate="local" summarization="12hourly">
<layout-key>k-p24h-n3-1</layout-key>
<start-valid-time period-name="Saturday">2020-08-22T06:00:00-05:00
</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2020-08-22T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time period-name="Sunday">2020-08-23T06:00:00-05:00
</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2020-08-23T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
<start-valid-time period-name="Monday">2020-08-24T06:00:00-05:00
</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2020-08-24T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
</time-layout>
...
<time-layout time-coordinate="local" summarization="12hourly">
<layout-key>k-p3d-n1-4</layout-key>
<start-valid-time>2020-08-21T18:00:00-05:00</start-valid-time>
<end-valid-time>2020-08-24T18:00:00-05:00</end-valid-time>
</time-layout>
<parameters applicable-location="point1">
<temperature type="maximum" units="Celsius" time-layout="k-p24h-n3-1">
<name>Daily Maximum Temperature</name>
<value>33</value>
<value>31</value>
<value>30</value>
</temperature>
<temperature type="minimum" units="Celsius" time-layout="k-p24h-n3-2">
<name>Daily Minimum Temperature</name>
<value>23</value>
<value>22</value>
<value>19</value>
</temperature>
<probability-of-precipitation type="12 hour"
units="percent" time-layout="k-p12h-n6-3">
<name>12 Hourly Probability of Precipitation</name>
<value>25</value>
<value>7</value>
<value>27</value>
<value>25</value>
<value>19</value>
<value>16</value>
</probability-of-precipitation>
<weather time-layout="k-p12h-n6-3">
<name>Weather Type, Coverage, and Intensity</name>
<weather-conditions weather-summary="Chance Thunderstorms">
<value coverage="chance" intensity="none"
weather-type="thunderstorms" qualifier="none"/>
<value coverage="chance" intensity="light"
additive="and" weather-type="rain showers" qualifier="none"/>
</weather-conditions>
<weather-conditions weather-summary="Partly Sunny"/>
<weather-conditions weather-summary="Chance Thunderstorms">
<value coverage="chance" intensity="none"
weather-type="thunderstorms" qualifier="none"/>
<value coverage="chance" intensity="light"
additive="and" weather-type="rain showers" qualifier="none"/>
</weather-conditions>
<weather-conditions weather-summary="Chance Thunderstorms">
...
</weather-conditions>
</weather>
<conditions-icon type="forecast-NWS" time-layout="k-p12h-n6-3">
<name>Conditions Icons</name>
<icon-link>http://www.nws.noaa.gov/weather/images/fcicons/sct.jpg
</icon-link>
...
</conditions-icon>
<hazards time-layout="k-p3d-n1-4">
<name>Watches, Warnings, and Advisories</name>
<hazard-conditions xsi:nil="true"/>
</hazards>
</parameters>
</data>
</dwml>]]></dwmlByDayOut>
</ns1:NDFDgenByDayResponse>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
The response tells us that the weather is going to be warm, 25 to 33 degrees Celsius, for the next 3 days and almost no chance of rain.
Click the "Raw" vertical tab. You will see the entire HTTP response including header lines:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Red Hat) X-NIDS-ServerID: www5.mo X-SOAP-Server: NuSOAP/0.9.5 (1.123) Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 1682 Content-Type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1 Vary: Accept-Encoding Cache-Control: max-age=171 Connection: keep-alive (response XML...)
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