I have a requirement where I need to run an RFC from an ETL (Datastage) job. It can be done by executing a unix command also, of course (the Datastage server is unix). I don't think they have the SAP plug-in for Datastage, though.
I've tried and succeeded using the startrfc command fired as a unix script, but the client's preferred solution would be using SOAP - whih I don't know much about, but I do have the URL for the RFC. Now, only if I knew how to use it...
Any ideas? Experiences? Tutorials? I'm grasping at straws at this point. This is quite, quite different from stuff I'm used to.
Any and all help much appreciated!
Like Ben said,
You should ask the SAP responsible for an SOAP endpoint in their system.
If you or the SAP staff are looking for an explanation how to expose a RFC as Web Service, there are a lot of articles about it on the SAP Developer Network.
E.g. this one: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/f02b33fc-9eb1-2c10-0599-f2ef9fb5c5b6?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true
If you have a URL pointing to the RFC it sounds like they may have exposed it as a web service. If this is the case you can just tack a ?wsdl on the end of the URL and use the WSDL to generate a web service proxy on the DataStage side.
Related
I'm new in this technology, so please excuse me for the question.
I have a WSO2 ESB configured on server. I managed to configure different Proxy Services one by one, the thing i'd like to do, since they are all child of one service to put them into one proxy and use it with parameters.
Something like:
http://localhost:8290/services/URL1/{id}
http://localhost:8290/services/URL2/{id}
I can't find comprehensive explanation on how to do this.
Could someone provide me with the proxy source example with more then one endpoint defined there, if it is possible.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Liudmila
You can use REST apis , there you can use url mapping and url templates as you want.
check the document[1]
https://docs.wso2.com/display/ESB470/Getting+Started+with+REST+APIs#GettingStartedwithRESTAPIs-URLmappings
I downloaded the example application and was surprised to see quite complex web request building and handling.
Unfortunately I have not been able to find even one scrap of documentation about the service.
I tried using AddServiceReference in VS and svcutil.exe on the end points (both the http general one and the https region specific ones) which I found in the example project (again I couldn't find them listed anywhere on the web) and both seamed to find a wsdl of sorts which they both used to create wrapper classes. But neither one created an app.config
and no mater what kind of binding I set up for them, I can not get the client to communicate.
Is there any documentation for the service?
Is there a way to use it with WCF?
Thank you
Rabbi,
i have the same thing here, there are some non MS sites discussing this:
- http://www.britishdeveloper.co.uk/2012/05/export-and-back-up-your-sql-azure.html
- http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/287597/Sql-Azure-Import-Export-Service-bacpac-dac-Extract
There is also a DacSample site, but that doc is bit messed up, mixing the DAC client tools with the hosted solution. if i read the doc correctly and follow the links i end up going in circles. Not funny :)
Good luck!
Pete
I know very little about web programming but I need to establish a license generation web service to provide licenses to users of my desktop software.
I have managed to create a working & debugged SOAP service on a Win2003 server but now I have discovered that the interface that I need to provide to my payment processor must be REST.
How would you recommend I deal with this, given that I simply don't have the time to learn PHP and rewrite my web service etc. I could bypass the SOAP altogether and easily create an executable which receives the license parameters and returns an encrypted license, but it's the web interface bit that I am stuck on. I will probably subcontract someone to write a utility for this on elance, but I don't know what to ask for.
Manu thanks,
Michael
You can expose the same service as SOAP based as well as RESTful. Axis2 with WSDL 2.0 has support for this.
Please see this article RESTful Web Services with Apache Axis2 - explains things in detail..
Thanks..
There's no easy conversion from SOAP to REST. SOAP WebServices RESTful APIs use different approaches. I think it is very easy to do with Ruby on Rails (which will take care of 90% of RESTful APi for you). All you need is to implement your logic.
Sinatra example:
get '/hi' do
"Hello World!"
end
Greetings!
I've spent some time researching how to communicate with SAP from a PHP web application, but the documentation is more than spare. The ways I found are:
Creating IDoc files, some sort of proprietary plain-text format. But how do I stick them in SAP when they are created on the webserver?
Coding a Windows Application using the SAP BAPI. This way, you have full control and access - but also a lot of pain.
Accessing the RFC (Remote Function Calls), preferrably via SOAP. This would be the best way to connect to a web app.
What I could not find out is: what is the easiest way to connect? Which versions of SAP support SOAP? Anything I've missed?
Thanks for your help!
How you connect to SAP is dependent on what version of SAP, your SAP license and what you're connecting with and what you are trying to do.
If you are trying to access SAP standard functionality - i.e. Read or Update a SAP Service Order, the standard BAPI should allow you to do what you need. (Note that a BAPI is just an RFC with a standard API, which is released for customer use by SAP).
There are various connectors to SAP, but for newer releases of SAP (2004s and later) many RFC function modules are exposed as webservices, which should be ideal for your purposes.
You may have to ask an ABAP developer (or even a non-developer with SAP experience) to help you find which RFC's are available and whether they are exposed as webservices. (If not an ABAP developer should be able to wrap BAPI as a webservice with a simplified interface).
If you are trying to do something that SAP have not provided prior functionality for, or perhaps access custom developed objects you will definitely need the assistance of an ABAP developer to exposes an RFC to you.
Depending on your system setup there may be some system administration tasks to be done in order to allow you to access the SAP system. Whether by RFC or otherwise. (Useful transactions to search for are SICF and SOAMANAGER). The SAP Basis administrator may also need to set up some RFC connections for you.
If your company uses SAP PI/XI or a non-SAP integration engine, it may be easier to connect but that would be in very limited cases.
I've used IDOCs before for single message transfer, but I'm not sure that it would have any advantage over BAPI's or webservices for any Business Type transactions. Although IDOCs have been around for a while and may be quite stable if standard ones exist.
I have to admit that I've only scratched the surface around connecting to SAP, but I hope this is useful.
The third option is the easiest.
Accessing the RFC (Remote Function
Calls), preferrably via SOAP.
I'm an experienced client application developer (C++/C#), but need to come up to speed quickly on writing server side code to perform RESTful interactions. Specifically, I need to learn how to exchange data with OpenSocial containers via the RESTful API.
The RESTWiki is a very good resource and then there is the classic "How I explained REST to my Wife".
However, don't forget to go read about it directly from the source, it is not as difficult a read as it may first seem.
And I am assuming you will be doing REST over HTTP so this will come in very handy.
Lastly, considering OpenSocial supports the Atom Publishing Protocol, this will be useful.
Enjoy.
RESTful Web Services
I found this this to be a good introduction to RESTful web apps, although it doesn't refer to OpenSocial containers.