External Object: WSDL

External Objects (EO) of type WSDL allow Web Services references to be added to the KB from its WSDL.

These EOs store all the related information (name, properties, methods, parameters, etc.) required for using the Web Service described in its WSDL.

Properties

External Object

Name: name of the EO
Description: description
Type: EO type (WSDL)
Use Native Soap: method to be used.
Namespace: WS namespace
Folder: folder where the EO is located
Object Visibility: accessibility from other objects in different Modules. 
XML Name: name of the WS given in the WSDL

Methods

Internal Name: internal name of the method
Description: description
Type: GeneXus data type of the return value
Style: WS, RPC or Document style binding
Use: SOAP binding use, Encoded or Literal
Address: WS address. This property implies that you can modify the address value for prototype purpose (another possibility is using the Location data type or xml)
Action: action associated to the method
Request Namespace: namespace of the WS request
Response Namespace: namespace of the WS response
XML Name: external name of the method
XML Namespace: method namespace in the WS
SOAP Type: data type of the return value in the SOAP message
Collection Serialization:  collection serialization type: Wrapped or Sequence

Parameters

Access Type: IN, OUT, INOUT
Internal Name: name given in GeneXus to the parameter
Type: data type given in GeneXus
XML Name: external name of the parameter
XML Namespace: parameter namespace in the WS
SOAP Type: data type of the parameter given in the SOAP message

Use

Suppose you create an EO of the WSDL type called GoogleSearchService. Then you define a GoogleSearchService variable called &ws and a variable GoogleSearchResult variable &res (collection of GoogleResult).

In your code you can do the following:

Event Enter
  &res = &ws.doGoogleSearch(&key,&text, 0, 10, 0, "", 0, "", "", "")
EndEvent

Event Load
    for &resultElement in &res.resultElements
        &title = &resultElement.title
        load
    endfor
EndEvent

Here, doGoogleSearch is the Web Service method to be invoked in order to search for the text (&text) passed as a parameter. Then, the resulting values would be loaded into a grid.

See Also

Parameters Style property in External Object