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!!