Configuring a Web Service Input Source

In this task you choose a web service as the source for your Input Source element.

Follow these steps:

Double-click an Input Source element. The Input Source Properties dialog appears.
In the Input Source Properties dialog, click Choose. The Input Source Chooser wizard appears.
Select the option A web service operation and click Next.

On the Web Service Input Source page, specify the information about the web service that you want to call, using the table below as a guide.

Option	Description
WSDL Location	Enter or browse to the WSDL file for the web service you want to call. If the file is: On an HTTP server, enter an “http://” URL In the data catalog, browse to it using the Browse Data Catalog button or enter an “avaki://” URL In your local file system, browse to it using the Browse Local File System button or enter a “file://” URL
Use “wrapped” mode	If your web service uses the document/literal (as opposed to rpc/encoded) format, check this box to use the “wrapped” mode for passing parameters. If you have trouble calling a document/literal web service, try changing the value of this checkbox. If the web service uses the rpc/encoded format, this option has no effect.

Option

Description

WSDL Location

Enter or browse to the WSDL file for the web service you want to call. If the file is:

On an HTTP server, enter an “http://” URL
In the data catalog, browse to it using the Browse Data Catalog button or enter an “avaki://” URL
In your local file system, browse to it using the Browse Local File System button or enter a “file://” URL

Use “wrapped” mode

If your web service uses the document/literal (as opposed to rpc/encoded) format, check this box to use the “wrapped” mode for passing parameters. If you have trouble calling a document/literal web service, try changing the value of this checkbox. If the web service uses the rpc/encoded format, this option has no effect.

Click Next to continue.
On the Web Service Response page, indicate which part of the SOAP response you want this input source to return.
- The entire SOAP response
  Return the SOAP message and any attachments.
- Only the SOAP part of the response
  Return the SOAP message with no attachments.
- The nth attachment (0-based index)
  Return the specified attachment but not the SOAP message. If the web service returns multiple attachments, you can enter a number in the text box to specify the zero-based index number of the attachment to return. For example, if the web service returns four attachments and you only want the fourth, enter 3 in the text box.
Click Finish to close the wizard.

Next

If this Input Source doesn’t supply data in a relational result set format, configure a transform for the data. Otherwise, configure error handling for this Input Source.