Connect SOAP form
Completing the Service tab

Field

Description

Specify the SOAP operation style for the messages:

• Choose RPC for RPC-encoded.
• Choose Document for document-literal.

Specify the SOAP operation name.

Optional. Enter the Uniform Resource Identifier or Uniform Resource Name for the namespace, starting with uri: or urn:. This need not correspond to a file at that location.

Optional. Enter the value of the soapAction HTTP header to send with the SOAP request message.

Select to specify the connector is to send the SOAP message and end the connection without waiting for a response (operate asynchronously). Clear this option to specify that the connector is to wait for a response (operate synchronously).

If you select this option, the connector does not wait for a response even if you configure data mappings on the Response tab.

Field

Description

If selected, Process Commander includes authentication credentials in the HTTP header of the SOAP request message.

If your application requires SOAP headers that conform to a WS-Security format rather than using HTTP Basic/NTLMv1 authentication, you can configure the header directly on the Request tab.

If you open a Connect SOAP instance configured in a version prior to Version 6.2, the rule form will contain a Username Property and Password Property field. To update the rule to use the Authentication Profile, save the rule and refresh rule form. The Username Property and Password Property fields will be replaced with the Authentication Profile field populated with a new profile.

Required, if Use Authentication? is selected. Select the Authentication Profile that contains the authentication details required by the remote service.

Field

Description

Enter the URL of the remote service provider to which the SOAP request message is sent.

This field supports the Global Resource Settings syntax (=.PageName.PropertyName). The default property name for this field is pySOAPURL. For more information, see Using the Global Resource Settings feature.

Optional. Enter a number of milliseconds after which, if no response is received, this rule times out with a failure message. Enter zero or leave blank to wait indefinitely.

This field is disabled and ignored at runtime when the Intended for field is set to queuing.ABLAL 11/14/08

Optional. If the external system uses HTTP token passing to maintain stateful session data between requests, you can use this field to specify that a group of logically related connectors is share one session. Enter an arbitrary text value in this field, and enter the same text value in the other HTTP connector rules that are to share session data.

Select to use HTTP token-passing as the mechanism for maintaining a stateful session with the Web service provider. If selected, enter a Connection ID value in the previous field.

This field is disabled and ignored at runtime when the Intended for field is set to queuing.ABLAL 11/14/08

Field

Description

The properties in this section hold status and exception information returned by the Connect-SOAP method. To map SOAP fault messages returned by the external web service to the clipboard, use the Faults tab.

Optional. Specify a single-value string property to hold the status code that the Connect-SOAP method returns. When you generate a connector rule with the Accelerator, this field is set to the standard property .pyStatusValue.

Use this field and the Status Message Property field when you want to manage exceptions in the connector activity rather than with an error handler flow.

Optional. Specify a single-value string property to hold the status description for the status code that the Connect-SOAP method returns. When you generate a connector rule with the Accelerator, this field is set to the standard property .pyStatusMessage.

Optional. Specify a property of mode Java Object to contain the exception object, if any are thrown during the execution of the connector.

C-1075 Optional. Identify a flow rule that routes to an appropriate place a work object that cannot continue in its current flow because this connector rule was unable to connect to the external system. The default flow rule Work-.ConnectionProblem provides one approach for handling such problems. See Handling connector exceptions.

Field

Description

Optional. Select:

• immediate execution — the SOAP connector executes synchronously; the calling activity waits for results.
• queuing (response will not be available) — the SOAP connector executes asynchronously, with calls placed in a queue for processing by the Pega-IntSvcs agent. The calling activity continues without waiting for results.

Blank is equivalent to immediate execution.

Queuing, when selected, occurs only if also specified in the Connect-SOAP method.

Optional. If you selected queuing for the Intended for field, identify here a Connect Request Processor data instance that defines the classes and other characteristics of the queued connector requests, and for which the RuleSet key part matches the RuleSet of this Connect SOAP rule. See More about SOAP Connector rules.

Click this button at any time after you have completed and saved the form to confirm that Process Commander can connect to the Java class identified.

C-1704The system presents test results in a separate window, identifying the parameters used in the test, the steps attempted, and the outcome of each step.

Click to create a simulator for this connect rule. See Connect Simulators.