Lwaits's List: SF Project - Currency Exchange

• public void CreateNewAccount() {  csCallCenterWS.csCallCenterSoap csWebHost = new csCallCenterWS.csCallCenterSoap();  csCallCenterWS.CreateNewAccountResult_element result = csWebHost.CreateNewAccount('CEISAxis41', 's4axis', 310201, 'FRANK', 'SINATRA', 'SINATRA, FRANK', '295', '123', '123', 'SPRINGFIELD', 'UT', '84121', 'TEST@EXAMPLE.COM', '111-111-1111'); 

  }

• The way you make the ws call looks good.

• make SOAP web service requests
• features like CFInvoke and CreateObject
• CFInvoke
• CreateObject
• request and the response and leaves no mystery as to how data types should be translated.
• SOAP request to Campaign Monitor's newsletter subscription API
• Given any WSDL file
• kind of SOAP request a particular method call is expecting
• professional APIs provide solid documentation complete with sample XML request and response values
• sample of the SOAP request
• sample of the SOAP response
• defines the SOAPAction that must be included with the request
• it will become a required Header value in our CFHTTP post.
• post it to the API using ColdFusion's CFHTTP and CFHTTPParam tags
• needed when we actually want to retrieve the web service definition
• "WSDL" URL flag
• Since we are posting the raw XML
• SOAPAction
• CFHTTPParam
• SOAPAction value is surrounded by double quotes.
• with a 200 response code
• name-spaced nodes
• SoapUI (http://www.soapui.org/) to make a call to the web service and route request trough TCP Monitor (part of Axis and as such already installed with ColdFusion).

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• Wrapper Class for Common API Functions

• This method is used to log in to salesforce and set the

  03	* private class variables for the wrapper, including the

  04	* session ID.

• you’ll need to download the appropriate WSDLs and WSC JAR (see below),
• run WSC over the WSDL
• and then compile the client code
• Open a Terminal or a Command Prompt,
• Java 6 installed
• directory to the desktop
• To generate the stub client code, run wsdlc on the downloaded WSDLs

• To generate the enterprise client jar, run the following command with the enterprise WSDL you downloaded from your organization. 

• To generate the metadata client jar, run a similar command with the Metadata WSDL. There is a small issue with the Metadata WSDL, so see this blog post for more information.  

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• Salesforce also imposes a limit on the number of future method invocations: 200 method calls per full Salesforce user license

• The getContent and getContentAsPDFPageReference methods cannot be used in methods with the future annotation.

   

• sURL = "http://webservices.gama-system.com/exchangerates.asmx?op=CurrentConvertToEUR"
• <CurrentConvertToEUR xmlns=""http://www.gama-system.com/webservices"">"
• CurrentConvertToEUR xmlns=""http://www.gama-system.com/webservices"">"   sEnv = sEnv & " <dcmValue>100</dcmValue>"   sEnv = sEnv & " <strBank>BS</strBank>"   sEnv = sEnv & " <strCurrency>USD</strCurrency>"   sEnv = sEnv & " <intRank>1</intRank>"   sEnv = sEnv & " </CurrentConvertToEUR>"
• Host", "webservices.gama-system.com
• soapAction", "http://www.gama-system.com/webservices/CurrentConvertToEUR"

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• http://doc.sample.com/docSample

  • http://soap.sforce.com/schemas/class/ExchangeRates
• The following code shows how to call the echoString method on the external server:

• These fields have names that end in the suffix “-Id”
• type defined in the API WSDL (Enterprise or Partner) to a string. However, other tools generate a specific ID class to represent the ID simple type. Please consult your web services toolkit documentation for more information.

• string

  • no char... use string?
• xsd:string    Character strings.

• Inbound: Hosting Web Services with the Apex Web Services

   
• Contact sObject based on incoming parameters:
• you’ll simply need the automatically generated WSDL for the service,

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• SimpleDateFormat

• 18.1.6 WebService(SOAP) Request ¶