Problems exposing a webservice

> Hi David
>
> What's the purpose of the oxf:url-generator in your example pipelines?
>
> You seem to be generating the config input of the url-generator from the
> request body - so if you call it from the browser then I wouldn't expect the
> request body to contain a URL (the body would be empty), so that would
> explain the error.
>
> You might try adding a debug attribute to your url-generator config input,
> this will show the config input that the url-generator is using.  You might
> also try adding a debug attribute on the output of your request generator so
> you can see the raw request data.
>
> >From your examples it looks like you are expecting your web service to
> receive a URL in the request body - is that correct?
>
> Also, do you need to implement your web service as a SOAP service?  Or would
> a simple web service that receives and XML document POST-ed to it do the
> job?  If you don't need it to be a SOAP service it will be simpler to
> implement.
>
> One more point - you've used xml-serializer to provide the output, although
> this does follow the Orbeon examples it's now recommended to use a xml
> converter followed by the HTTP serializer to do this job.
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Georg Reichelt [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: 10 February 2010 09:49
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [ops-users] Problems exposing a webservice
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Orbeon Forms and currently trying to expose a webservice
> that is running an XPL-Pipeline. I already have implemented the Pipeline
> with Input from an XHTML-File, but now I want to run it as a Webservice.
> I read the help about exposing webservices (
> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/integration-webservices#d6e69 ) and
> tryied to just copy-paste the code. I thought that for the beginning it
> would be enough to just give back everything that is sent to the
> webservice with code like this: http://nopaste.info/abd8268692.html To
> test, weather the service is working, I just used the consuming
> webservice example described at the Orbeon Forms page. The
> traffic-Service of this example isn't working, too, because the server
> isn't online, so I changed it like this:
> http://nopaste.info/23e3e853db.html to test this webservice:
> http://soapclient.com/edgar.html.
> Unfortunately this isn't working at all, so it isn't returning anything
> but null. Because of this, I am unable to find out weather my webservice
> is working or not. If I just call it from browser, it says "URL
> generator found null URL for config: <config><url/></config>". I
> searched the old mailinglistentrys, but the only thing I found was
> http://n4.nabble.com/exposing-webservices-td26538.html#a26538, I
> configured it to run with idendity processor (like this:
> http://nopaste.info/58bb0f3a82.html), but it's just saying "URL
> generator found null URL for config: <config><url/></config>" when I
> call it from browser.
> Can anyone tell me how to make a working call of a webservice, that is
> exposed in Orbeon forms or what I'm making wrong to archieve that?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>  

> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks for your advices.
> I thought, the url-generator would do something that is important for
> handling the input, but he is just a example-thing you can do with input. I
> now have inserted the Java-Processor I would like to expose, and the code
> now looks like this: http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html At least, when I
> call it from browser, it shows the output of the Java-Processor without
> input.
>
> Now I am trying to use the Webservice. Unfortunately, the traffic example
> doesn't work, and the examples from
> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-delegation doesn't, either. The
> RPC-Example returns just null, and the other one returns an error. I tried
> to let both use my localhost-service, but the first just returned null.
> (example: http://nopaste.info/8b4904a5ef.html)
>
> I simply want - in the Service - expose an Java Program, that receives
> input, and then to use this Service with a given input from another service.
> Can you give me a hint, how to configure the exposing or the using, to get
> this aim?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> Steve Bayliss schrieb:
>>
>> Hi David
>>
>> What's the purpose of the oxf:url-generator in your example pipelines?
>>
>> You seem to be generating the config input of the url-generator from the
>> request body - so if you call it from the browser then I wouldn't expect
>> the
>> request body to contain a URL (the body would be empty), so that would
>> explain the error.
>>
>> You might try adding a debug attribute to your url-generator config input,
>> this will show the config input that the url-generator is using.  You
>> might
>> also try adding a debug attribute on the output of your request generator
>> so
>> you can see the raw request data.
>>
>> >From your examples it looks like you are expecting your web service to
>> receive a URL in the request body - is that correct?
>>
>> Also, do you need to implement your web service as a SOAP service?  Or
>> would
>> a simple web service that receives and XML document POST-ed to it do the
>> job?  If you don't need it to be a SOAP service it will be simpler to
>> implement.
>>
>> One more point - you've used xml-serializer to provide the output,
>> although
>> this does follow the Orbeon examples it's now recommended to use a xml
>> converter followed by the HTTP serializer to do this job.
>>
>> Regards
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Georg Reichelt [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent: 10
>> February 2010 09:49
>> To: [hidden email]
>> Subject: [ops-users] Problems exposing a webservice
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am new to Orbeon Forms and currently trying to expose a webservice that
>> is running an XPL-Pipeline. I already have implemented the Pipeline with
>> Input from an XHTML-File, but now I want to run it as a Webservice. I read
>> the help about exposing webservices (
>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/integration-webservices#d6e69 ) and tryied
>> to just copy-paste the code. I thought that for the beginning it would be
>> enough to just give back everything that is sent to the webservice with code
>> like this: http://nopaste.info/abd8268692.html To test, weather the service
>> is working, I just used the consuming webservice example described at the
>> Orbeon Forms page. The traffic-Service of this example isn't working, too,
>> because the server isn't online, so I changed it like this:
>> http://nopaste.info/23e3e853db.html to test this webservice:
>> http://soapclient.com/edgar.html.
>> Unfortunately this isn't working at all, so it isn't returning anything
>> but null. Because of this, I am unable to find out weather my webservice is
>> working or not. If I just call it from browser, it says "URL generator found
>> null URL for config: <config><url/></config>". I searched the old
>> mailinglistentrys, but the only thing I found was
>> http://n4.nabble.com/exposing-webservices-td26538.html#a26538, I configured
>> it to run with idendity processor (like this:
>> http://nopaste.info/58bb0f3a82.html), but it's just saying "URL generator
>> found null URL for config: <config><url/></config>" when I call it from
>> browser.
>> Can anyone tell me how to make a working call of a webservice, that is
>> exposed in Orbeon forms or what I'm making wrong to archieve that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>>
>
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> David,
>
> What you do in http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html to implement a
> service looks OK to me, so it is hard to say why it is not working for
> you. Would you be able to create a minimal example, maybe an "app"
> that we can put under resources/apps that would show the problem you
> are hitting?
>
> Alex
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:54 AM, David Georg Reichelt
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>  
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>> Thanks for your advices.
>> I thought, the url-generator would do something that is important for
>> handling the input, but he is just a example-thing you can do with input. I
>> now have inserted the Java-Processor I would like to expose, and the code
>> now looks like this: http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html At least, when I
>> call it from browser, it shows the output of the Java-Processor without
>> input.
>>
>> Now I am trying to use the Webservice. Unfortunately, the traffic example
>> doesn't work, and the examples from
>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-delegation doesn't, either. The
>> RPC-Example returns just null, and the other one returns an error. I tried
>> to let both use my localhost-service, but the first just returned null.
>> (example: http://nopaste.info/8b4904a5ef.html)
>>
>> I simply want - in the Service - expose an Java Program, that receives
>> input, and then to use this Service with a given input from another service.
>> Can you give me a hint, how to configure the exposing or the using, to get
>> this aim?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>> Steve Bayliss schrieb:
>>    
>>> Hi David
>>>
>>> What's the purpose of the oxf:url-generator in your example pipelines?
>>>
>>> You seem to be generating the config input of the url-generator from the
>>> request body - so if you call it from the browser then I wouldn't expect
>>> the
>>> request body to contain a URL (the body would be empty), so that would
>>> explain the error.
>>>
>>> You might try adding a debug attribute to your url-generator config input,
>>> this will show the config input that the url-generator is using.  You
>>> might
>>> also try adding a debug attribute on the output of your request generator
>>> so
>>> you can see the raw request data.
>>>
>>> >From your examples it looks like you are expecting your web service to
>>> receive a URL in the request body - is that correct?
>>>
>>> Also, do you need to implement your web service as a SOAP service?  Or
>>> would
>>> a simple web service that receives and XML document POST-ed to it do the
>>> job?  If you don't need it to be a SOAP service it will be simpler to
>>> implement.
>>>
>>> One more point - you've used xml-serializer to provide the output,
>>> although
>>> this does follow the Orbeon examples it's now recommended to use a xml
>>> converter followed by the HTTP serializer to do this job.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: David Georg Reichelt [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent: 10
>>> February 2010 09:49
>>> To: [hidden email]
>>> Subject: [ops-users] Problems exposing a webservice
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new to Orbeon Forms and currently trying to expose a webservice that
>>> is running an XPL-Pipeline. I already have implemented the Pipeline with
>>> Input from an XHTML-File, but now I want to run it as a Webservice. I read
>>> the help about exposing webservices (
>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/integration-webservices#d6e69 ) and tryied
>>> to just copy-paste the code. I thought that for the beginning it would be
>>> enough to just give back everything that is sent to the webservice with code
>>> like this: http://nopaste.info/abd8268692.html To test, weather the service
>>> is working, I just used the consuming webservice example described at the
>>> Orbeon Forms page. The traffic-Service of this example isn't working, too,
>>> because the server isn't online, so I changed it like this:
>>> http://nopaste.info/23e3e853db.html to test this webservice:
>>> http://soapclient.com/edgar.html.
>>> Unfortunately this isn't working at all, so it isn't returning anything
>>> but null. Because of this, I am unable to find out weather my webservice is
>>> working or not. If I just call it from browser, it says "URL generator found
>>> null URL for config: <config><url/></config>". I searched the old
>>> mailinglistentrys, but the only thing I found was
>>> http://n4.nabble.com/exposing-webservices-td26538.html#a26538, I configured
>>> it to run with idendity processor (like this:
>>> http://nopaste.info/58bb0f3a82.html), but it's just saying "URL generator
>>> found null URL for config: <config><url/></config>" when I call it from
>>> browser.
>>> Can anyone tell me how to make a working call of a webservice, that is
>>> exposed in Orbeon forms or what I'm making wrong to archieve that?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>      
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>
>
>
>  

> Hi,
>
> Yeah, I assume that the problem isn't the exposing of the webservice but the
> call, but I'm not shure. I uploaded a minimal example on
> www.the-fight-online.de/servicetest.zip. There are to files in the zip
> directory, one exposing the service (in the directory service) and one
> trying to use the service (in the directory servicecall). If those two are
> in resources/apps, the service seems to work (a call in a browser returns a
> xml-file with the request-data), but the call with some test data just
> returns null-data. Normaly, it should return the things I've sent (i changed
> it, now it contains just the identity-processor..). Can you tell me what I'm
> doing wrong?
>
> Best Regards,
> David
>
> Alessandro Vernet schrieb:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> What you do in http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html to implement a
>> service looks OK to me, so it is hard to say why it is not working for
>> you. Would you be able to create a minimal example, maybe an "app"
>> that we can put under resources/apps that would show the problem you
>> are hitting?
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:54 AM, David Georg Reichelt
>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your advices.
>>> I thought, the url-generator would do something that is important for
>>> handling the input, but he is just a example-thing you can do with input.
>>> I
>>> now have inserted the Java-Processor I would like to expose, and the code
>>> now looks like this: http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html At least, when I
>>> call it from browser, it shows the output of the Java-Processor without
>>> input.
>>>
>>> Now I am trying to use the Webservice. Unfortunately, the traffic example
>>> doesn't work, and the examples from
>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-delegation doesn't, either.
>>> The
>>> RPC-Example returns just null, and the other one returns an error. I
>>> tried
>>> to let both use my localhost-service, but the first just returned null.
>>> (example: http://nopaste.info/8b4904a5ef.html)
>>>
>>> I simply want - in the Service - expose an Java Program, that receives
>>> input, and then to use this Service with a given input from another
>>> service.
>>> Can you give me a hint, how to configure the exposing or the using, to
>>> get
>>> this aim?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>>>
>>> Steve Bayliss schrieb:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi David
>>>>
>>>> What's the purpose of the oxf:url-generator in your example pipelines?
>>>>
>>>> You seem to be generating the config input of the url-generator from the
>>>> request body - so if you call it from the browser then I wouldn't expect
>>>> the
>>>> request body to contain a URL (the body would be empty), so that would
>>>> explain the error.
>>>>
>>>> You might try adding a debug attribute to your url-generator config
>>>> input,
>>>> this will show the config input that the url-generator is using.  You
>>>> might
>>>> also try adding a debug attribute on the output of your request
>>>> generator
>>>> so
>>>> you can see the raw request data.
>>>>
>>>> >From your examples it looks like you are expecting your web service to
>>>> receive a URL in the request body - is that correct?
>>>>
>>>> Also, do you need to implement your web service as a SOAP service?  Or
>>>> would
>>>> a simple web service that receives and XML document POST-ed to it do the
>>>> job?  If you don't need it to be a SOAP service it will be simpler to
>>>> implement.
>>>>
>>>> One more point - you've used xml-serializer to provide the output,
>>>> although
>>>> this does follow the Orbeon examples it's now recommended to use a xml
>>>> converter followed by the HTTP serializer to do this job.
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: David Georg Reichelt [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent:
>>>> 10
>>>> February 2010 09:49
>>>> To: [hidden email]
>>>> Subject: [ops-users] Problems exposing a webservice
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am new to Orbeon Forms and currently trying to expose a webservice
>>>> that
>>>> is running an XPL-Pipeline. I already have implemented the Pipeline with
>>>> Input from an XHTML-File, but now I want to run it as a Webservice. I
>>>> read
>>>> the help about exposing webservices (
>>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/integration-webservices#d6e69 ) and
>>>> tryied
>>>> to just copy-paste the code. I thought that for the beginning it would
>>>> be
>>>> enough to just give back everything that is sent to the webservice with
>>>> code
>>>> like this: http://nopaste.info/abd8268692.html To test, weather the
>>>> service
>>>> is working, I just used the consuming webservice example described at
>>>> the
>>>> Orbeon Forms page. The traffic-Service of this example isn't working,
>>>> too,
>>>> because the server isn't online, so I changed it like this:
>>>> http://nopaste.info/23e3e853db.html to test this webservice:
>>>> http://soapclient.com/edgar.html.
>>>> Unfortunately this isn't working at all, so it isn't returning anything
>>>> but null. Because of this, I am unable to find out weather my webservice
>>>> is
>>>> working or not. If I just call it from browser, it says "URL generator
>>>> found
>>>> null URL for config: <config><url/></config>". I searched the old
>>>> mailinglistentrys, but the only thing I found was
>>>> http://n4.nabble.com/exposing-webservices-td26538.html#a26538, I
>>>> configured
>>>> it to run with idendity processor (like this:
>>>> http://nopaste.info/58bb0f3a82.html), but it's just saying "URL
>>>> generator
>>>> found null URL for config: <config><url/></config>" when I call it from
>>>> browser.
>>>> Can anyone tell me how to make a working call of a webservice, that is
>>>> exposed in Orbeon forms or what I'm making wrong to archieve that?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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> David,
>
> Thank you for the example; that really helps!
>
> 1) In servicecall/model2.xpl, for the output of the pipeline to be
> usable by the PFC, it needs to be named "data".
> 2) I would discourage you to use the delegation processor, as it is
> not maintained anymore. Instead, use the XForms submission processor,
> which reuses the xforms:submission.
>
> Here is the updated model2.xpl: http://gist.github.com/315242
> And the result indeed goes and comes back from the service:
> http://screencast.com/t/Njk5NWE2OT
>
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:49 AM, David Georg Reichelt
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>  
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yeah, I assume that the problem isn't the exposing of the webservice but the
>> call, but I'm not shure. I uploaded a minimal example on
>> www.the-fight-online.de/servicetest.zip. There are to files in the zip
>> directory, one exposing the service (in the directory service) and one
>> trying to use the service (in the directory servicecall). If those two are
>> in resources/apps, the service seems to work (a call in a browser returns a
>> xml-file with the request-data), but the call with some test data just
>> returns null-data. Normaly, it should return the things I've sent (i changed
>> it, now it contains just the identity-processor..). Can you tell me what I'm
>> doing wrong?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> David
>>
>> Alessandro Vernet schrieb:
>>    
>>> David,
>>>
>>> What you do in http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html to implement a
>>> service looks OK to me, so it is hard to say why it is not working for
>>> you. Would you be able to create a minimal example, maybe an "app"
>>> that we can put under resources/apps that would show the problem you
>>> are hitting?
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:54 AM, David Georg Reichelt
>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your advices.
>>>> I thought, the url-generator would do something that is important for
>>>> handling the input, but he is just a example-thing you can do with input.
>>>> I
>>>> now have inserted the Java-Processor I would like to expose, and the code
>>>> now looks like this: http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html At least, when I
>>>> call it from browser, it shows the output of the Java-Processor without
>>>> input.
>>>>
>>>> Now I am trying to use the Webservice. Unfortunately, the traffic example
>>>> doesn't work, and the examples from
>>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-delegation doesn't, either.
>>>> The
>>>> RPC-Example returns just null, and the other one returns an error. I
>>>> tried
>>>> to let both use my localhost-service, but the first just returned null.
>>>> (example: http://nopaste.info/8b4904a5ef.html)
>>>>
>>>> I simply want - in the Service - expose an Java Program, that receives
>>>> input, and then to use this Service with a given input from another
>>>> service.
>>>> Can you give me a hint, how to configure the exposing or the using, to
>>>> get
>>>> this aim?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>> Steve Bayliss schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>> Hi David
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the purpose of the oxf:url-generator in your example pipelines?
>>>>>
>>>>> You seem to be generating the config input of the url-generator from the
>>>>> request body - so if you call it from the browser then I wouldn't expect
>>>>> the
>>>>> request body to contain a URL (the body would be empty), so that would
>>>>> explain the error.
>>>>>
>>>>> You might try adding a debug attribute to your url-generator config
>>>>> input,
>>>>> this will show the config input that the url-generator is using.  You
>>>>> might
>>>>> also try adding a debug attribute on the output of your request
>>>>> generator
>>>>> so
>>>>> you can see the raw request data.
>>>>>
>>>>> >From your examples it looks like you are expecting your web service to
>>>>> receive a URL in the request body - is that correct?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, do you need to implement your web service as a SOAP service?  Or
>>>>> would
>>>>> a simple web service that receives and XML document POST-ed to it do the
>>>>> job?  If you don't need it to be a SOAP service it will be simpler to
>>>>> implement.
>>>>>
>>>>> One more point - you've used xml-serializer to provide the output,
>>>>> although
>>>>> this does follow the Orbeon examples it's now recommended to use a xml
>>>>> converter followed by the HTTP serializer to do this job.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: David Georg Reichelt [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent:
>>>>> 10
>>>>> February 2010 09:49
>>>>> To: [hidden email]
>>>>> Subject: [ops-users] Problems exposing a webservice
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am new to Orbeon Forms and currently trying to expose a webservice
>>>>> that
>>>>> is running an XPL-Pipeline. I already have implemented the Pipeline with
>>>>> Input from an XHTML-File, but now I want to run it as a Webservice. I
>>>>> read
>>>>> the help about exposing webservices (
>>>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/integration-webservices#d6e69 ) and
>>>>> tryied
>>>>> to just copy-paste the code. I thought that for the beginning it would
>>>>> be
>>>>> enough to just give back everything that is sent to the webservice with
>>>>> code
>>>>> like this: http://nopaste.info/abd8268692.html To test, weather the
>>>>> service
>>>>> is working, I just used the consuming webservice example described at
>>>>> the
>>>>> Orbeon Forms page. The traffic-Service of this example isn't working,
>>>>> too,
>>>>> because the server isn't online, so I changed it like this:
>>>>> http://nopaste.info/23e3e853db.html to test this webservice:
>>>>> http://soapclient.com/edgar.html.
>>>>> Unfortunately this isn't working at all, so it isn't returning anything
>>>>> but null. Because of this, I am unable to find out weather my webservice
>>>>> is
>>>>> working or not. If I just call it from browser, it says "URL generator
>>>>> found
>>>>> null URL for config: <config><url/></config>". I searched the old
>>>>> mailinglistentrys, but the only thing I found was
>>>>> http://n4.nabble.com/exposing-webservices-td26538.html#a26538, I
>>>>> configured
>>>>> it to run with idendity processor (like this:
>>>>> http://nopaste.info/58bb0f3a82.html), but it's just saying "URL
>>>>> generator
>>>>> found null URL for config: <config><url/></config>" when I call it from
>>>>> browser.
>>>>> Can anyone tell me how to make a working call of a webservice, that is
>>>>> exposed in Orbeon forms or what I'm making wrong to archieve that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          
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> David,
>
> Thank you for the example; that really helps!
>
> 1) In servicecall/model2.xpl, for the output of the pipeline to be
> usable by the PFC, it needs to be named "data".
> 2) I would discourage you to use the delegation processor, as it is
> not maintained anymore. Instead, use the XForms submission processor,
> which reuses the xforms:submission.
>
> Here is the updated model2.xpl: http://gist.github.com/315242
> And the result indeed goes and comes back from the service:
> http://screencast.com/t/Njk5NWE2OT
>
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:49 AM, David Georg Reichelt
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>  
>> Hi,
>>
>> Yeah, I assume that the problem isn't the exposing of the webservice but the
>> call, but I'm not shure. I uploaded a minimal example on
>> www.the-fight-online.de/servicetest.zip. There are to files in the zip
>> directory, one exposing the service (in the directory service) and one
>> trying to use the service (in the directory servicecall). If those two are
>> in resources/apps, the service seems to work (a call in a browser returns a
>> xml-file with the request-data), but the call with some test data just
>> returns null-data. Normaly, it should return the things I've sent (i changed
>> it, now it contains just the identity-processor..). Can you tell me what I'm
>> doing wrong?
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> David
>>
>> Alessandro Vernet schrieb:
>>    
>>> David,
>>>
>>> What you do in http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html to implement a
>>> service looks OK to me, so it is hard to say why it is not working for
>>> you. Would you be able to create a minimal example, maybe an "app"
>>> that we can put under resources/apps that would show the problem you
>>> are hitting?
>>>
>>> Alex
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:54 AM, David Georg Reichelt
>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your advices.
>>>> I thought, the url-generator would do something that is important for
>>>> handling the input, but he is just a example-thing you can do with input.
>>>> I
>>>> now have inserted the Java-Processor I would like to expose, and the code
>>>> now looks like this: http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html At least, when I
>>>> call it from browser, it shows the output of the Java-Processor without
>>>> input.
>>>>
>>>> Now I am trying to use the Webservice. Unfortunately, the traffic example
>>>> doesn't work, and the examples from
>>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-delegation doesn't, either.
>>>> The
>>>> RPC-Example returns just null, and the other one returns an error. I
>>>> tried
>>>> to let both use my localhost-service, but the first just returned null.
>>>> (example: http://nopaste.info/8b4904a5ef.html)
>>>>
>>>> I simply want - in the Service - expose an Java Program, that receives
>>>> input, and then to use this Service with a given input from another
>>>> service.
>>>> Can you give me a hint, how to configure the exposing or the using, to
>>>> get
>>>> this aim?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> David
>>>>
>>>> Steve Bayliss schrieb:
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>> Hi David
>>>>>
>>>>> What's the purpose of the oxf:url-generator in your example pipelines?
>>>>>
>>>>> You seem to be generating the config input of the url-generator from the
>>>>> request body - so if you call it from the browser then I wouldn't expect
>>>>> the
>>>>> request body to contain a URL (the body would be empty), so that would
>>>>> explain the error.
>>>>>
>>>>> You might try adding a debug attribute to your url-generator config
>>>>> input,
>>>>> this will show the config input that the url-generator is using.  You
>>>>> might
>>>>> also try adding a debug attribute on the output of your request
>>>>> generator
>>>>> so
>>>>> you can see the raw request data.
>>>>>
>>>>> >From your examples it looks like you are expecting your web service to
>>>>> receive a URL in the request body - is that correct?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, do you need to implement your web service as a SOAP service?  Or
>>>>> would
>>>>> a simple web service that receives and XML document POST-ed to it do the
>>>>> job?  If you don't need it to be a SOAP service it will be simpler to
>>>>> implement.
>>>>>
>>>>> One more point - you've used xml-serializer to provide the output,
>>>>> although
>>>>> this does follow the Orbeon examples it's now recommended to use a xml
>>>>> converter followed by the HTTP serializer to do this job.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Steve
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: David Georg Reichelt [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent:
>>>>> 10
>>>>> February 2010 09:49
>>>>> To: [hidden email]
>>>>> Subject: [ops-users] Problems exposing a webservice
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am new to Orbeon Forms and currently trying to expose a webservice
>>>>> that
>>>>> is running an XPL-Pipeline. I already have implemented the Pipeline with
>>>>> Input from an XHTML-File, but now I want to run it as a Webservice. I
>>>>> read
>>>>> the help about exposing webservices (
>>>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/integration-webservices#d6e69 ) and
>>>>> tryied
>>>>> to just copy-paste the code. I thought that for the beginning it would
>>>>> be
>>>>> enough to just give back everything that is sent to the webservice with
>>>>> code
>>>>> like this: http://nopaste.info/abd8268692.html To test, weather the
>>>>> service
>>>>> is working, I just used the consuming webservice example described at
>>>>> the
>>>>> Orbeon Forms page. The traffic-Service of this example isn't working,
>>>>> too,
>>>>> because the server isn't online, so I changed it like this:
>>>>> http://nopaste.info/23e3e853db.html to test this webservice:
>>>>> http://soapclient.com/edgar.html.
>>>>> Unfortunately this isn't working at all, so it isn't returning anything
>>>>> but null. Because of this, I am unable to find out weather my webservice
>>>>> is
>>>>> working or not. If I just call it from browser, it says "URL generator
>>>>> found
>>>>> null URL for config: <config><url/></config>". I searched the old
>>>>> mailinglistentrys, but the only thing I found was
>>>>> http://n4.nabble.com/exposing-webservices-td26538.html#a26538, I
>>>>> configured
>>>>> it to run with idendity processor (like this:
>>>>> http://nopaste.info/58bb0f3a82.html), but it's just saying "URL
>>>>> generator
>>>>> found null URL for config: <config><url/></config>" when I call it from
>>>>> browser.
>>>>> Can anyone tell me how to make a working call of a webservice, that is
>>>>> exposed in Orbeon forms or what I'm making wrong to archieve that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          
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> Hi,
>
> I solved the problem accitently by myself, it's easier than I thought: one
> just has to call /service/ and not /service. For everyone who has this
> problem in the future: on http://gist.github.com/317626 is a code how one
> can call something with error reporting. In my case, this code works,
> because the /service/ - Code is working, but if you're not shure, weather
> your service works, with events like this you can get it.
>
> Best Regards and thank you all for your help,
> David
>
> Alessandro Vernet schrieb:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> Thank you for the example; that really helps!
>>
>> 1) In servicecall/model2.xpl, for the output of the pipeline to be
>> usable by the PFC, it needs to be named "data".
>> 2) I would discourage you to use the delegation processor, as it is
>> not maintained anymore. Instead, use the XForms submission processor,
>> which reuses the xforms:submission.
>>
>> Here is the updated model2.xpl: http://gist.github.com/315242
>> And the result indeed goes and comes back from the service:
>> http://screencast.com/t/Njk5NWE2OT
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 4:49 AM, David Georg Reichelt
>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Yeah, I assume that the problem isn't the exposing of the webservice but
>>> the
>>> call, but I'm not shure. I uploaded a minimal example on
>>> www.the-fight-online.de/servicetest.zip. There are to files in the zip
>>> directory, one exposing the service (in the directory service) and one
>>> trying to use the service (in the directory servicecall). If those two
>>> are
>>> in resources/apps, the service seems to work (a call in a browser returns
>>> a
>>> xml-file with the request-data), but the call with some test data just
>>> returns null-data. Normaly, it should return the things I've sent (i
>>> changed
>>> it, now it contains just the identity-processor..). Can you tell me what
>>> I'm
>>> doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> David
>>>
>>> Alessandro Vernet schrieb:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> David,
>>>>
>>>> What you do in http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html to implement a
>>>> service looks OK to me, so it is hard to say why it is not working for
>>>> you. Would you be able to create a minimal example, maybe an "app"
>>>> that we can put under resources/apps that would show the problem you
>>>> are hitting?
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:54 AM, David Georg Reichelt
>>>> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Steve,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your advices.
>>>>> I thought, the url-generator would do something that is important for
>>>>> handling the input, but he is just a example-thing you can do with
>>>>> input.
>>>>> I
>>>>> now have inserted the Java-Processor I would like to expose, and the
>>>>> code
>>>>> now looks like this: http://nopaste.info/2864e06b28.html At least, when
>>>>> I
>>>>> call it from browser, it shows the output of the Java-Processor without
>>>>> input.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I am trying to use the Webservice. Unfortunately, the traffic
>>>>> example
>>>>> doesn't work, and the examples from
>>>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-delegation doesn't, either.
>>>>> The
>>>>> RPC-Example returns just null, and the other one returns an error. I
>>>>> tried
>>>>> to let both use my localhost-service, but the first just returned null.
>>>>> (example: http://nopaste.info/8b4904a5ef.html)
>>>>>
>>>>> I simply want - in the Service - expose an Java Program, that receives
>>>>> input, and then to use this Service with a given input from another
>>>>> service.
>>>>> Can you give me a hint, how to configure the exposing or the using, to
>>>>> get
>>>>> this aim?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>> Steve Bayliss schrieb:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi David
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the purpose of the oxf:url-generator in your example pipelines?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You seem to be generating the config input of the url-generator from
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> request body - so if you call it from the browser then I wouldn't
>>>>>> expect
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> request body to contain a URL (the body would be empty), so that would
>>>>>> explain the error.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You might try adding a debug attribute to your url-generator config
>>>>>> input,
>>>>>> this will show the config input that the url-generator is using.  You
>>>>>> might
>>>>>> also try adding a debug attribute on the output of your request
>>>>>> generator
>>>>>> so
>>>>>> you can see the raw request data.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >From your examples it looks like you are expecting your web service
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> receive a URL in the request body - is that correct?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, do you need to implement your web service as a SOAP service?  Or
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> a simple web service that receives and XML document POST-ed to it do
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> job?  If you don't need it to be a SOAP service it will be simpler to
>>>>>> implement.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One more point - you've used xml-serializer to provide the output,
>>>>>> although
>>>>>> this does follow the Orbeon examples it's now recommended to use a xml
>>>>>> converter followed by the HTTP serializer to do this job.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>> Steve
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: David Georg Reichelt [mailto:[hidden email]] Sent:
>>>>>> 10
>>>>>> February 2010 09:49
>>>>>> To: [hidden email]
>>>>>> Subject: [ops-users] Problems exposing a webservice
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am new to Orbeon Forms and currently trying to expose a webservice
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> is running an XPL-Pipeline. I already have implemented the Pipeline
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> Input from an XHTML-File, but now I want to run it as a Webservice. I
>>>>>> read
>>>>>> the help about exposing webservices (
>>>>>> http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/integration-webservices#d6e69 ) and
>>>>>> tryied
>>>>>> to just copy-paste the code. I thought that for the beginning it would
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> enough to just give back everything that is sent to the webservice
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> code
>>>>>> like this: http://nopaste.info/abd8268692.html To test, weather the
>>>>>> service
>>>>>> is working, I just used the consuming webservice example described at
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> Orbeon Forms page. The traffic-Service of this example isn't working,
>>>>>> too,
>>>>>> because the server isn't online, so I changed it like this:
>>>>>> http://nopaste.info/23e3e853db.html to test this webservice:
>>>>>> http://soapclient.com/edgar.html.
>>>>>> Unfortunately this isn't working at all, so it isn't returning
>>>>>> anything
>>>>>> but null. Because of this, I am unable to find out weather my
>>>>>> webservice
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> working or not. If I just call it from browser, it says "URL generator
>>>>>> found
>>>>>> null URL for config: <config><url/></config>". I searched the old
>>>>>> mailinglistentrys, but the only thing I found was
>>>>>> http://n4.nabble.com/exposing-webservices-td26538.html#a26538, I
>>>>>> configured
>>>>>> it to run with idendity processor (like this:
>>>>>> http://nopaste.info/58bb0f3a82.html), but it's just saying "URL
>>>>>> generator
>>>>>> found null URL for config: <config><url/></config>" when I call it
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> browser.
>>>>>> Can anyone tell me how to make a working call of a webservice, that is
>>>>>> exposed in Orbeon forms or what I'm making wrong to archieve that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> David
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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