AW: Building a C# EXE for us

[Rudolf Bargholz]

Hi John,

SoapSonar Enterprise was not able to call the WCF Web Service successfully. The web service always returned an error message from the server, so a call was made, but something is missing. Some parameter is probably missing, but I am not able to find out which.

I have found someone who will look into making us a .NET class library that we can call from Studio next week. Thanks for the link to this great tool. Pity it did not work for this web service. I only found one tool, WCFStorm, which was specifically designed to talk with WCF web services and does not return us the full XML sent to the service.

Regards

Rudolf

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] Im Auftrag von John Boehme
Gesendet: Sonntag, 10. Januar 2010 00:45
An: 'OmnisDev List - English'
Betreff: RE: Building a C# EXE for us

Hi Rudolph,

The personal edition of SoapSonar doesn't do ssl, which the services I
connected to required, but it did provide a form where you could enter data
into the inputs of the request and it would show you the xml that you would
send to the service. Does it not do that for the WCF service?

Once you have the xml, then that's when you use the internet explorer
control or java object directly from Omnis to make the request using ssl.

John Boehme
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Integral Consulting Services
Bothell, WA
940.597.3046
www.integralservices.biz
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com
>> [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] On Behalf
>> Of Rudolf Bargholz
>> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:25 PM
>> To: OmnisDev List - English
>> Subject: AW: Building a C# EXE for us
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> We have a WSDL, but all the other tools we normally use to
>> test and analyze web services fail against a WCF web
>> service, or don't provide us with a trace of the XML sent to
>> the web service.
>>
>> The SoapSonar Personal Edition cannot be used as the web
>> service is built using WCF, WCF requires the use of
>> SSL/HTTPS. This is a limitation of the Personal Edition.
>> Still waiting for a link to the Enterprise Edition. Thanks
>> for the tip.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rudolf
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com
>> [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] Im Auftrag
>> von John Boehme
>> Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Januar 2010 19:57
>> An: 'OmnisDev List - English'
>> Betreff: RE: Building a C# EXE for us
>>
>> Hi Rudolph,
>>
>> If it is a true web service that they are providing, then
>> what they should be able to provide you is a wsdl file. If
>> they can't do this, you should tell them to get of their
>> arses and generate one. This is an xml file that describes
>> the interface for the web service that is used by automated
>> tools for connecting to the web service.
>>
>> Once you have that, you can use a free tool called
>> SoapSonar, that will analyze the wsdl file and provides a
>> neat interface that will give you sample xml packages that
>> can be sent to the web services. The free version of
>> SoapSonar doesn't make calls to a secure web service, but,
>> it will still provide the sample xml packages to be sent.
>> You can then use these sample xml packages to formulate your
>> request, and send the package to the web service using the
>> Windows internet explorer control, or I've heard, you can
>> use a java object if you're on a Mac. Once you're sending
>> the appropriate packages, you'll be able to see what they
>> are returning and parse the xml appropriately.
>>
>> I've done this a couple of times so far. It's pretty
>> straight forward to communicate to a web service once you
>> have the definition of the interface (the wsdl file). The
>> only external you need is the internet explorer contol (or
>> java object) that will make the request with ssl. You can
>> use oXML, or not, to put together the package and view the
>> response package.
>>
>> Hope this helps. Good luck.
>>
>> John Boehme
>> ----------------------------
>> Integral Consulting Services
>> Bothell, WA
>> 940.597.3046
>> www.integralservices.biz
>> ----------------------------
>>
>>
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com
>> >> [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] On
>> Behalf Of Rudolf
>> >> Bargholz
>> >> Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 9:44 AM
>> >> To: OmnisDev List - English
>> >> Subject: NO: Building a C# EXE for us
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> A customer of ours has a new web service written in C#
>> using WCF. We
>> >> need to be able to call the web service, pass parameters to the
>> >> service and receive the response in order to process the
>> response in
>> >> Omnis Studio. Is there anyone out there that would be
>> able to take
>> >> the demo C#, compile the demo, and then convert the code
>> to a simple
>> >> EXE file where we could pass the necessary web service
>> parameters as
>> >> an XML file as a parameter to the EXE and specify a
>> return file name
>> >> where the response is stored. The one web service we need
>> to call has
>> >> one parameter. The web service uses username
>> authentication and SSL,
>> >> which makes sniffing the packets to find out what XML I
>> need to send
>> >> via WebWin very difficult.
>> >>
>> >> The web service client functionality in Studio is
>> limited, so I am
>> >> trying to find an alternative. soapUI failed me, in this
>> case, and
>> >> other web service testing tools had their problems. And I doubt
>> >> developing xcomps in C# is supported.
>> >>
>> >> Anyone out there interested.
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >>
>> >> Rudolf Bargholz