Sounds like you need the 3rd party to send you some example XML payloads to compare against. This way you will know exactly what they are looking for. One thing to watch out for is you can't have a CDATA inside another CDATA (that is against the XML specifications).
Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Harrodine Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WebService - XML formatted in a char field question ? Hi Fred, Thanks for your reply. I tried first of all with no CDATA and in the logfiles, i can see the <arg0> and </arg0> with my XML following and it looks fine to me but still errors. I then tried with the <![CDATA[ at the top and then the ]]> at the end and again, still errors. Finally, i tried with <![CDATA[ at the top and put it on a line of its own and yes, you guessed it, still fails ! I have the plugins tracing at level 100 and the 3 log files ... Sean -----Original Message----- From: "Grooms, Frederick W" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, 10 August, 2009 14:47:10 Subject: Re: WebService - XML formatted in a char field question ? Most of the time when I see this type of WSDL (arg0 and arg1) I have to enclose my XML in a CDATA structure. i.e. <arg0><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <MY_XML> <ATTR1>VALUE</ATTR1> . . . </MY_XML>]]> </arg0> With the plugin logging turned on and set to 100 ( Plugin-Log-Level:100 ) in the ar.conf (ar.cfg in windows) you can see the XML in the log. See the Configuring manual the "AR System configuration files" section. Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sean Harrodine Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 7:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: WebService - XML formatted in a char field question ? Hi all, I've been having issues creating a web service out to a third party solution (IBM Maximo) so i thought i would try the following...... 1 - create a basic form with just 2 fields, i called "OUTBOUNDXML", 1 called "REPLY" 2 - load their WSDL into a filter to run on SUBMIT 3 - in the filter, click the "Input Mappings" button where i now see an "XML Data Type" of "arg0", so i map this field to the "OUTBOUNDXML" field on my form 4 - similarily, in the "Output Mappings", i see an "XML Data Type" of "return" so i map this to field "REPLY" on my form 5 - and finally, i create an entry in the Form and put some XML formatted data in the "OUTBOUNDXML" and submit, hoping that i get a successful reply back. So, i submit the record and the system waits for a second or 2 before yes i get a reply back, but its an error and our 3rd party company are saying that they cant see any data. So, question........ Should this work, namely, formatting the data in a character field in an "XML format" and sending through to ??? I wanted to do this purely as a back to basics style test to just prove that their side is working ok. All help gretefully received. Sean
