Invoking an integration service from Linux

[Jon Moore]

Just a quick note. I wanted to kick off some processing in Ebase from a Linux server (i) from a shell script, and (ii) with minimal need to deploy software to the server for the purpose. So no ebasetrigger scripts, etc.

The simplest solution I found depends on curl, which seems to be standard in most Linux distributions, and invokes a SOAP web service. It looks something like:

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WS_URL='http://localhost:3030/ufs/cxf/MY_FORM'
...
REQUEST=`tempfile`
RESPONSE=`tempfile`
cat > $REQUEST << EOT
<xml>
<soap>
     <soap>
           <message>
                <item>
                     <data1>$DATA1</data1>
                     <data2>$DATA2</data2>
                </item>
           </message>
     </soap>
</soap>
EOT
curl \
     -H "Content-Type&#58; text/xml;charset=utf-8" \
     -H "SOAPAction&#58;" \
     -d @$REQUEST \
     -X POST "$WS_URL" \
     > $RESPONSE

(Note: previewing this, the forum seems to remove the namespaces and prefixes from the above XML, but the principle should be obvious - I just copied the sample XML produced in the Xi designer for testing the web service and stuck in some shell variables where appropriate.)

Of course, depending on where the DATA1 and DATA2 variables come from, they may need to be XML encoded (untested):

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sed "s/\&/\&amp;/;s/>/\&gt;/;s/</\&lt;/;s/'/\&apos;/"

Also, I should apparently have provided a SOAPAction corresponding to the Integration Resource operation name, but I have only one operation (and it's the default), so maybe that doesn't matter.

[Steve]

Hi Jon,

Thanks for the message. I have never tried this before from a shell script. It is an interesting idea for batch processing

The SOAP action, this is only required when there is more than one operation for the web service (Integration Service), as this is used as a routing mechanism to make sure the correct operation (Integration Resource) is invoked.

Kind regards

Steve

[cathleenwitmer]

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