Apex_web_service.make_request fails

Question

Hi,
Im trying some of the examples here:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17556_01/doc/apirefs.40/e15519/apex_web_service.htm#BABGEIAH
But I cant get it to work..
It fails on this part:
apex_web_service.make_request
Here is the code:
declare
l_envelope CLOB;
l_xml XMLTYPE;
BEGIN
l_envelope := ' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:tns="http://www.ignyte.com/whatsshowing"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<tns:GetTheatersAndMovies>
<tns:zipCode>43221</tns:zipCode>
<tns:radius>5</tns:radius>
</tns:GetTheatersAndMovies>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>';
l_xml := apex_web_service.make_request(
p_url => ' http://www.ignyte.com/webservices/ignyte.whatsshowing.webservice/moviefunctions.asmx',
p_action => ' http://www.ignyte.com/whatsshowing/GetTheatersAndMovies',
p_envelope => l_envelope
END;
you can see the error here:
http://test.kolonist.dk/sql_error.jpg
I then thought maybe the ignyte webservice wasnt available, so I tried another which I found here: http://www.service-repository.com/service/overview/2020380455
l_envelope := '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<soap:Body>
<GetHalloweenDay xmlns="http://www.27seconds.com/Holidays/US/Dates/">
<year>2010</year>
</GetHalloweenDay>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>';
l_xml := apex_web_service.make_request(
p_url => 'http://www.27seconds.com/Holidays/US/Dates/USHolidayDates.asmx',
p_action => 'http://www.27seconds.com/Holidays/US/Dates/GetHalloweenDay',
p_envelope => l_envelope
Same result..
I also tried with p_action beeing: GetTheatersAndMovies
And all kinds of different ways to write the url.
Edited by: bjarkekr on 2010-10-27 08:45
Edited by: bjarkekr on 2010-10-27 14:41

Answer 1

Bjarke,
Your first envelope contains a space character in front of the url's (this is a bug in the example shown in the APEX Documentation).
The following code is working fine for me:
declare
l_envelope CLOB;
l_xml XMLTYPE;
BEGIN
wwv_flow_api.set_security_group_id;
l_envelope := '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:tns="http://www.ignyte.com/whatsshowing"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body>
<tns:GetTheatersAndMovies>
<tns:zipCode>43221</tns:zipCode>
<tns:radius>5</tns:radius>
</tns:GetTheatersAndMovies>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>';
l_xml := apex_web_service.make_request(
p_url => 'http://www.ignyte.com/webservices/ignyte.whatsshowing.webservice/moviefunctions.asmx',
p_action => 'http://www.ignyte.com/whatsshowing/GetTheatersAndMovies',
p_envelope => l_envelope
dbms_output.put_line(substr(l_xml.getClobVal(),1,255));
END;
Brgds
Martin
Edited by: martinbn on Oct 30, 2010 12:20 AM