Defining some global properties.

> Nicolas,
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 3:01 AM, Nicolas Modrzyk <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > My application is accessing a number of webservices.
> > I would like to take the urls of those webservices out of the xpl and
> > factorize them in an external file. The file is static and won't
> > change throughout the lifetime of the application. The content will
> > just be edited at deployment time.
> >
> > What would be an easy way to achieve that without overhead for the application.
> > Is there an example somewhere ?
>
> I would create an XML file somewhere in your resources (say
> oxf:/config.xml) that contains those URLs in some simple format you
> choose. In your XForms I assume you will be using this in submissions,
> in the action attribute. Then instead of
> action="http://intalio.com/end-world-hunger" you would write
> action="{doc('oxf:/config.xml')/config/end-world-hunger}" (assuming
> your configuration contains <config> <end-world-hunger>
> http://intalio.com/end-world-hunger </end-world-hunger> </config>).
>
> If you are using a nightly build, it is even simpler: you can define
> those in properties.xml and use the new XPath function
> xxforms:property().
>
> Alex
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>

> This is exactly what I am looking for !!
> Except this is not exactly working for me. :)
>
> I am using delegation as described in:
> http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/integration-webservices
>
> My service call is looking like:
>  <p:processor name="oxf:delegation">
>                 <p:input name="interface">
>                     <config>
>                         <service id="callWS" type="webservice"
> endpoint="{doc('oxf:/config/services.xml')/services/tmsuri}">
>                             <operation name="callWSName" soap-action="callWS"/>
>                         </service>
>                     </config>
>                 </p:input>
>                 <p:input name="call" href="#..."/>
>                 <p:output name="data" id="output"/>
>             </p:processor>
>
> But the value for endpoint is not processed and is passed as is.
> Can I get 1 more hint that will help to end the world hunger ? :)
>
> Nicolas,
>
>
>
> On 1/24/08, Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Nicolas,
> >
> > On Jan 23, 2008 3:01 AM, Nicolas Modrzyk <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > > My application is accessing a number of webservices.
> > > I would like to take the urls of those webservices out of the xpl and
> > > factorize them in an external file. The file is static and won't
> > > change throughout the lifetime of the application. The content will
> > > just be edited at deployment time.
> > >
> > > What would be an easy way to achieve that without overhead for the application.
> > > Is there an example somewhere ?
> >
> > I would create an XML file somewhere in your resources (say
> > oxf:/config.xml) that contains those URLs in some simple format you
> > choose. In your XForms I assume you will be using this in submissions,
> > in the action attribute. Then instead of
> > action="http://intalio.com/end-world-hunger" you would write
> > action="{doc('oxf:/config.xml')/config/end-world-hunger}" (assuming
> > your configuration contains <config> <end-world-hunger>
> > http://intalio.com/end-world-hunger </end-world-hunger> </config>).
> >
> > If you are using a nightly build, it is even simpler: you can define
> > those in properties.xml and use the new XPath function
> > xxforms:property().
> >
> > Alex
> > --
> > Orbeon Forms - Web 2.0 Forms, open-source, for the Enterprise
> > http://www.orbeon.com/
> >
> >
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> >
>

> This is exactly what I am looking for !!
> Except this is not exactly working for me. :)
>
> I am using delegation as described in:
> http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/integration-webservices
>
> My service call is looking like:
>  <p:processor name="oxf:delegation">
>                 <p:input name="interface">
>                     <config>
>                         <service id="callWS" type="webservice"
> endpoint="{doc('oxf:/config/services.xml')/services/tmsuri}">
>                             <operation name="callWSName" soap-action="callWS"/>
>                         </service>
>                     </config>
>                 </p:input>
>                 <p:input name="call" href="#..."/>
>                 <p:output name="data" id="output"/>
>             </p:processor>

> Nicolas,
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 11:04 PM, Nicolas Modrzyk <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > This is exactly what I am looking for !!
> > Except this is not exactly working for me. :)
> >
> > I am using delegation as described in:
> > http://www.orbeon.com/ops/doc/integration-webservices
> >
> > My service call is looking like:
> >  <p:processor name="oxf:delegation">
> >                 <p:input name="interface">
> >                     <config>
> >                         <service id="callWS" type="webservice"
> > endpoint="{doc('oxf:/config/services.xml')/services/tmsuri}">
> >                             <operation name="callWSName" soap-action="callWS"/>
> >                         </service>
> >                     </config>
> >                 </p:input>
> >                 <p:input name="call" href="#..."/>
> >                 <p:output name="data" id="output"/>
> >             </p:processor>
>
> You can use expressions like
> {doc('oxf:/config/services.xml')/services/tmsuri} (called AVTs) in
> some attributes in XForms and in XSLT. But the delegation processor
> doesn't recognize AVTs. So in this case you would have to either
> generate the "config" input of the delegation processor with XSLT, or
> simply put that configuration in a separate file and just have
> <p:input name="interface" href="/webservices-interface.xml">.
>
> In fact this processor is using a separate input for the interface for
> this very reason. It was assumed that many calls to the delegation
> processor would use the same interface, and that you would want to
> declare this interface in a file somewhere, and just refer to it
> whenever you need to call the delegation processor.
>
> Alex
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> Nicolas,
>
> On Jan 29, 2008 11:29 PM, Nicolas Modrzyk <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > We have approximately a dozen different service calls to do, most of
> > them from a single service providing server. (the service methods are
> > different, but the server serving them are the same)
>
> You can declare multiple services in the same "interface" document.
> For instance:
>
> <service id="end-world-hunger" type="webservice" style="rpc"
>         endpoint="http://intalio.com/end-world-hunger">
>     <operation nsuri="urn:avernet" name="operation1" .../>
>     <operation nsuri="urn:avernet" name="operation2" .../>
> </service>
>
> This way you don't repeat the endpoint. And that document can be a
> static document in your resources that you reference from everywhere
> else.
>
> > I was looking at just changing the base URL for the server hosting the
> > services I need to call, if you see what I mean.
> > So a URLResourceLocator with a servlet-like thing that would generate
> > the xml config for delegation would be good then ? What do you think ?
>
> I am not sure to understand: you would like to dynamically change the
> URL of the service?
>
> Alex
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>
>
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>

> Sorry for delay, been travelling all week.
> I just tried, and it works perfectly.
>
> One minor change is that you need to wrap the <sevice> tag with <config>
> tags.
> <config>
> <service id="end-world-hunger" ...>
>    <operation .../>
> </service>
> </config>
>
> and as you said, call it using:
> <p:input name="interface" href="oxf:/config/services.xml"/>
>
> This is great!
> Thanks a lot for your suggestion and help.