8.5
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Welcome to PReS Workflow 8.5
- System Requirements
- Basics
- Features
- The Nature of PReS Workflow
- About Branches and Conditions
- Configuration Components
- Connect Resources
- About Data
- About Documents
- Debugging and Error Handling
- The Plug-in Bar
- About Printing
- About Processes and Subprocesses
- Using Scripts
- Special Workflow Types
- About Tasks
- Task Properties
- Variable Properties
- Working With Variables
- About Configurations
- About Related Programs and Services
- The Interface
- Copyright Information
- Legal Notices and Acknowledgements
SOAP Client Plug-In
SOAP Client Plug-In tasks can be used as input, output and action tasks, although their basic function is to
generate output. SOAP (Simple 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 Plug-In task in the PReS Workflow 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 name spaces.
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 Plug-In tasks normalize all line endings to a single line feed
character.
Properties
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WSDL address: Enter the URL address of the WSDL file, or choose a previously selected address
from the drop-down list.