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If storing the message or ID, if they are store in a jobinfo they will be available in any error handling process where errors are
being forwarded. In all cases, if your process continues after the error, the contents of the variables selected in this window
will be available for the rest of your process, or whenever they are overwritten.
SOAP Client Plug-in
SOAP Client tasks can be used as input, output and action tasks, although their basic function is to generate output. SOAP (Sim-
ple Object Access Protocol) is a light protocol that defines a standard XML format used to communicate among systems across
different architectures, languages, and operating systems.
A SOAP request is an XML-based Remote Procedure Call (RPC) sent using the HTTP transport protocol. The payload of the
SOAP packet is an XML document that specifies the call being made and the parameters being passed.
Web services, a SOAP class of applications, expose their services via the Internet in a manner that lets other applications
access them, as well as use and combine them as required.
In order to access and successfully use Web services, client applications must know how to get them, what operations they
support, what parameters they expect, as well as what they return. SOAP servers make this information available via WSDL
(Web Service Description Language) files.
To configure a given SOAP Client task in the PlanetPress Suite Workflow Tools Configuration program, you must first get its
WSDL file (note that you cannot download the WSDL file over an HTTPS connection, so you should use an HTTP connection to
get the file and then switch back to a secure connection). This lets you know which services the SOAP server provides, as well
as each service’s methods and namespaces.
If firewalls control communication between the SOAP client and the Web servers, they must be configured so as not to block
client-server communication.
In the case of "string" type data, SOAP Client tasks normalize all line endings to a single line feed character.
Task Properties
General tab
l WSDL address: Enter the URL address of the WSDL file, or choose a previously selected address from the drop-
down list.
The WSDL Address of a PlanetPress Workflow SOAP server is the following: http://127.0-
.0.1:8080/wsdl/isoapact (assuming you are on the same machine and did not change the default
HTTP port).
l Get: Click to get the WSDL file from the SOAP server and populate the Service box below.
l Service: Choose an available Web service from this drop-down list to populate the Method box below. You may also
enter the service name directly if the WSDL file cannot be found.
l Method: Choose an available method from this drop-down list. This populates the Namespace box below. You may
also enter the method name directly.
l Namespace: You may choose an available namespace to prevent ambiguity between identically named elements or
attributes. You may also enter a namespace directly.
l Resolve: Click to apply the options you chose above and to display the arguments of the chosen method in the Argu-
ments box below.
l As script: Click to apply the options you chose above and to display information on the chosen Web service in Java-
Script format in a script viewer. You should use this option if the Web service is too complex to be interpreted correctly
by the SOAP Client plugin.