topic Re: Receive XML on a REST Endpoint Testing in ArcGIS GeoEvent Server Questions

Receive XML on a REST Endpoint Testing

MeleKoneya — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:33:09 GMT

I have crated an Receive XML on a REST Endpoint connector and am trying to get an XML file to process in the service below

I sending an XML via Python to see if anything comes through but have not seen it working as there is nothing in in/out and sample route shows nothing.

This is how I am sending the XML with python in ArcGIS Pro

# GeoEvent Server details
geoevent_server_url = "https://ourserver:6143" # Replace with your server URL
input_connector_name = "SFD_ipad_XML" # Replace with your input connector name
receiver_url = f"{geoevent_server_url}/geoevent/rest/receiver/{input_connector_name}"

# XML data to send
xml_data = """
<<location data>
<latitude>[33.49419124478499]</latitude>
<longitude>[-111.8995224018715]</longitude>
<date>[Jul 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM]</date>
<device_id>[EPCRM365_191 (APIPAD00096)]</device_id>
</location data>
"""

# Set the headers for the request
headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/xml"
}

try:
# Send the POST request
response = requests.post(receiver_url, data=xml_data, headers=headers, verify=False) # verify=False for self-signed certs

# Check the response status
if response.status_code == 200:
print("XML data successfully sent to GeoEvent Server.")
else:
print(f"Error sending XML data. Status code: {response.status_code}")
print(f"Response content: {response.text}")

except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
print(f"An error occurred: {e}")
XML data successfully sent to GeoEvent Server.

This is my first attempt at using this connector, so I may be missing something obvious. Thank you for any assistance.

Mele

Re: Receive XML on a REST Endpoint Testing

JeffSilberberg — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 02:42:18 GMT

@MeleKoneya

At least two things look suspicious in your XML Data block -

There are two << opening brackets instead of one. Shouldn't it be <location data>

Also, you enclosed the Lat & lon data in Square Brackets, which is not standard XML..

Check your Logs, and maybe add a temporary output to a text file, that you can then open and see if your XML document made it all the way in.

Re: Receive XML on a REST Endpoint Testing

MeleKoneya — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:29:01 GMT

@JeffSilberberg Thank you for seeing my poor formatting. I think you are on to something for sure as know I can see the file getting passed through the connector. I think I still need to fix a few things and will try the suggestion of written it to a text file to see if I am missing something else in the format. Thanks again!