Completing Connection Properties for Web Services
You need a detailed understanding of the web service that the Business Importer will connect to, using your adapter.
The following properties can be set when importing from a web service.
Properties | Notes |
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URL | This is HTTP URL of the web service. |
Login | Account name with which to connect to the web service. Note: Some web services do not require authentication, in which case you do
not need to specify account and password.
|
Password | The password (if required) for the account connecting to the web service. |
Web service function or SOAP message | Set to one of:
Function call example:
GetAllPurchaseOrders results in
the following SOAP request:
Alternatively, if the SOAP request requires specific syntax or
parameters, you can enter the full SOAP request. For example:
|
SOAP element | A string containing the name of the element to be read in the Web
Service response. When the importer receives a response from the server,
the full SOAP message is received, and the Business Importer may
not know which of several XML elements contains the data to import. The
Business Importer attempts to find elements in the following
order (and reads data from the first one of these found):
|
SOAP header values | A string containing the values to be added to the Web Service request header. The values must be formatted as follows:
For
example:
|
Timeout | The number of seconds to wait before giving up on a a query from the
data source. A value of 0 means there is no limit and the
adapter will wait indefinitely for the query to finish. A value of
-1 means that the server-determined default time out
should be used. |
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