sakaiSiteHideResources.sh

#!/bin/sh
exec scala "$0" "$@"
!#

import scala.xml.{Elem,XML}

class SoapClient {
    private def error(msg: String) = {
        println("SoapClient error: " + msg)
    }

    def wrap(xml: Elem) : String = {
        val buf = new StringBuilder
        buf.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n")
        buf.append("<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:web=\"http://webservices.sakaiproject.org/\">\n")
        buf.append("<soapenv:Header/>\n")
        buf.append("<soapenv:Body>\n")
        buf.append(xml.toString)
        buf.append("\n</soapenv:Body>\n")
        buf.append("</soapenv:Envelope>\n")
        buf.toString
    }

    def sendMessage(host: String, req: Elem) : Option[Elem] = {
        val url = new java.net.URL(host)
        val outs = wrap(req).getBytes
        val conn = url.openConnection.asInstanceOf[java.net.HttpURLConnection]
        try {
            conn.setRequestMethod("POST")
            conn.setDoOutput(true)
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", outs.length.toString)
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml")
            conn.getOutputStream.write(outs)
            conn.getOutputStream.close
            Some(XML.load(conn.getInputStream))
        }
        catch {
            case e: Exception => error("post: " + e)
                error("post:" + scala.io.Source.fromInputStream(conn.getErrorStream).mkString)
                None
        }
    }
}

object SoapCall {

    def makeXml(sessionid: String, siteid: String, hidden: String) =
        <web:siteHideResources>
            <sessionid>{ sessionid }</sessionid>
            <siteid>{ siteid }</siteid>
            <hidden>{ hidden }</hidden>
        </web:siteHideResources>;

    def doHttpCall(xml: Elem) {
        val host = "http://localhost:8080/sakai-ws/soap/contenthosting"

        val cli = new SoapClient
        println("##### request:\n" + cli.wrap(xml))
        val resp = cli.sendMessage(host, xml)
        if (resp.isDefined) {
            println("##### response:")
            (resp.get  \\ "return").foreach(elem => { println(elem.text) })
        }
    }

    def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
        doHttpCall(makeXml(args(0), args(1), args(2)))
    }
}

SoapCall.main(args)

This is a sample script to use call it with the following params
./soapSiteHideResources sessionid siteid true|false
i.e.
./soapSiteHideResources 197ce6a3-3ac8-4ec0-a59f-c08bff541f7f mercury true

A successful request would look something like:

##### request:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:web="http://webservices.sakaiproject.org/">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<web:siteHideResources>
            <sessionid>197ce6a3-3ac8-4ec0-a59f-c08bff541f7f</sessionid>
            <siteid>mercury</siteid>
            <hidden>true</hidden>
        </web:siteHideResources>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

##### response:
success