Sample ASI SOAP Message

A lot has been written about Siebel ASI's. Developers tend to swore by them in order to achieve anything. Despite being so famous, the-mother-of-document siebel bookshelf doesn't have enough sample examples of them. Though there are details about structure of the ASI's. How they can be deployed as web services, about Interface integration objects, etc but still those fascinating examples are missing which helps in quick understanding.
If you have already worked on ASI's you can directly jump to comments section for your experience else you can continue to have a look as the sample SOAP message which can be directly fired from your SOAP UI to fetch results.

Here i am discussing about OOB siebel ASI, Siebel Contact and its two operations:

1 - QueryById
As the name suggest you can query contacts available based on one Input, i.e. RowId. Sample input message for same will look like:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:asi="http://siebel.com/asi/"> <soapenv:Header/> <soapenv:Body> <asi:SiebelContactQueryById soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <primaryrowid xsi:type="xsd:string">1-4VYGI</PrimaryRowId> </asi:SiebelContactQueryById> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>

2 -QueryByExample
 With this operation you can query on any of the fields as mentioned in the integration object. Sample request message for the same will look like.  This will return you all the contacts starting with Ra* in the response message based on your output integration object.
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:asi="http://siebel.com/asi/" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <soapenv:Header/> <soapenv:Body> <asi:SiebelContactQueryByExample soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"> <siebelmessage xsi:type="con:ListOfContactInterfaceTopElmt" xmlns:con="http://www.siebel.com/xml/Contact%20Interface"> <listofcontactinterface xsi:type="con:ListOfContactInterface"> <contact soapenc:arrayType="ns:Contact[1]" xsi:type="soapenc:Array"> <contact xsi:type="ns:Contact"> <firstname xsi:type="ns0:string">Ra*</FirstName> </Contact> </Contact> </ListOfContactInterface> </SiebelMessage> </asi:SiebelContactQueryByExample> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>

We will discuss sample request messages pertaining to other operations in next posts. I also found a very good article written on ASI from oracle which can be of great help to others.

Happy Integration!!

Android and Siebel WebServices

Finally life has turned to, need of hour,development of MobileApps for siebel and trust me it is as thrilling as watching any bond movie. with new projects come new challenges. So while developing android app for our users we got stuck in one show-stopper issue.

The main requirement was to consume a webservice hosted in siebel. On Android, consuming a SOAP web service is more difficult (as opposed to consuming a RESTful web service), since it does not include any libraries to communicate with SOAP web services. Unfortunately you have to manually write the code to consume the service which is not as straightforward as compared to writing in any other Java project.

With siebel doesn't giving a direct hosted URL it was more difficult for us to write the code. As an alterate solution we have to write a .net webservice which consumes the siebel webservice. The next issue is to generate the Java classes needed from the .Net WSDL files, and this is where I was coming up short with knowledge. But with little help from google found library called kSOAP2 that filled the gap and helped in generating the classes. I am still not able to figure out how to directly consume siebel webservice in android app without wrapping it in another webservcie. Any idea on this will be of great help.

Happy Integration!!