web services

[sandman]

Are web services fully functional in the DR release?
If so, are there any examples ?

[antun]

Hey sandman

If you mean remote procedure calls (e.g SOAP or XML RPC) no they're not functional in DR.

The way we bring data in and out of the LPS is effectively using a web service - you make a request for XML from the server, pass it parameters, and get back the result. However it doesn't just "return" the result - it will put it in the dataset instead.

-Antun

[sandman]

So, on the server I could have a web services client which actually invokes the web service and returns the result.

[antun]

Depends on how the web services client can accept requests - if you can hit it over http (using a GET request), and if it returns XML data, you capture that and put it into a dataset.

-Antun