Executing BAM weservice from SOAP UI

In This blog I am going to show how to execute a BAM webservice using SOAP UI.


To do this you need following
1. Up and Running BAM server: To verify that launch http://<server>:<port>/OracleBAMWS/WebServices/DataObjectOperationsByName. If you are asked to provide a username/password it means service is running.
2. Username/password: Second thing you need is a username/password. By default all BAM services are secured using http basic authentication. You need a username/password to execute them.
3. SOAP UI

Here are the steps to do it
1. Launch SOAP UI
2. Create a SOAP UI project:

    

   You will be asked for username/password twice. (One for accessing wsdl and other for associated xsd.)

   Project should look like

3. Run a service operation: Right click on service operation (say Get) and select 'New Request'

Next screen shows request xml text on one side and a blank page on next side for response.
There are few question marks in request. We need to replace them with appropriate parameter.


We can use  http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/integration.1111/e10224/bam_app_webserv.htm#BABDBGBE document to get  more information about service operations and their respective parameters.

As per document for Get service

keysCSV (xsd:string): Comma separated column IDs that must be used as keys

Sales Number, Sales Area

xmlPayload (xsd:string): The payload specifies what to get from the data object. For the DataObjectOperationsByName web service the data object name is specified in the payload, for example:

<DataObject Name="Employees" Path="/Samples"> 
     <Contents> 
         <Row> 
            <Column Name="Salesperson" Value="Greg Masters"/> 
         </Row> 
    </Contents> 
</DataObject>

Key here is that xmlPayload has xml syntax and we need to pass it as a parameter. To do that we need to escape it. We can use any xml escaping site. I used http://www.freeformatter.com/xml-escape.html to escape above xmlPayload. Escaped xml text I got is

&lt;DataObject Name=&quot;Employees&quot; Path=&quot;/Samples&quot;&gt;      &lt;Contents&gt;          &lt;Row&gt;             &lt;Column Name=&quot;Salesperson&quot; Value=&quot;Greg Masters&quot;/&gt;          &lt;/Row&gt;     &lt;/Contents&gt; &lt;/DataObject&gt; 

Now put keysCSV and xmlPayload in SOAP UI.

 Last thing that we need to do is to provide username/password.

      Select 'Auth' tab below request section and create a Besic authorization. Provide username/password

Now click on green run icon above request panel. You should see below screen with response.

 

 Thats it.