IT Process Automation

  • 1.  How to fetch web service attachments?

    Posted Mar 17, 2017 06:43 AM

    I've created a process that runs a Jasper report via web services using the runReport method and it's working almost fine. The problem is: this SOAP operation outputs the report attached to the message and I'm not able to find it after running the PAM process. I haven't added any information under the MIME attachment section yet, because it asks for the file URL, but I do not have any since I'm calling a web service that will return it to me.

     

    My question is: How to fetch web service attachments via PAM?

     

    Call:

    <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:axis="http://axis2.ws.jasperserver.jaspersoft.com">
       <soapenv:Header/>
       <soapenv:Body>
          <axis:runReport soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
             <requestXmlString xsi:type="xsd:string">
                   <![CDATA[<request operationName="runReport" locale="en">
                        <argument name="RUN_OUTPUT_FORMAT">PDF</argument>
                        <resourceDescriptor name="" wsType=""
                        uriString="/organizations/servicemanagement/capability/reports/CA_Service_Desk/Requests/Volume/Active_Request_List"
                        isNew="false">
                        <label>null</label>
                        </resourceDescriptor>
                        </request>
                   ]]>

              </requestXmlString>
          </axis:runReport>
       </soapenv:Body>
    </soapenv:Envelope>

     

    Response:

    <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
       <soapenv:Body>
          <ns1:runReportResponse soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:ns1="http://axis2.ws.jasperserver.jaspersoft.com">
             <runReportReturn xsi:type="xsd:string"><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <operationResult version="2.0.1">
         <returnCode><![CDATA[0]]]]>><![CDATA[</returnCode>
    </operationResult>]]>
    </runReportReturn>
          </ns1:runReportResponse>
       </soapenv:Body>
    </soapenv:Envelope>


  • 2.  Re: How to fetch web service attachments?

    Posted Mar 17, 2017 08:07 AM

    Just filled the MIME attachment section as following:

    Content Type: "application/pdf"

    Content ID: "<report>"

    File URL: "jreport.pdf"

     

    But it returns the following error:

    "SOAP invocation failed: Unable to resolve protocol"



  • 3.  Re: How to fetch web service attachments?

    Posted Mar 17, 2017 09:20 AM

    Any inputs?



  • 4.  Re: How to fetch web service attachments?

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 17, 2017 09:41 AM

    So you are running a web service call into a CA Service Desk and the results of that web service call are returned as a .pdf file?

     

    There is no mechanism within Process Automation to download and store a PDF file so I do not believe this is going to work without otherwise designing into Process Automation a link to the actual file and use the file operators to move it around.

     

     

    Here is another discussion on service desk attachments that seems relevant:

    https://communities.ca.com/thread/241689547



  • 5.  Re: How to fetch web service attachments?

    Posted Mar 17, 2017 09:56 AM

    Yes and no. I'm running a web service call into Jaspersoft and the result of that call is a .pdf file. Jaspersoft allows me to run a report via web services, but when I do it Jasper returns the report as an attached .pdf file and does not provide any path or link to that file.

    The next thing I would do is to upload that file to SDM, but if PAM does not store the web service attachment it won't be possible.



  • 6.  Re: How to fetch web service attachments?
    Best Answer

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 17, 2017 10:47 AM

    Can you get the report with a call to the Jaspersoft REST API?  The REST operators support saving attachments in responses.  I have a process that downloads files from Box this way.



  • 7.  Re: How to fetch web service attachments?

    Posted May 24, 2017 07:38 PM

    Thanks, Bill! Really appreciate your help.