Calling BI Publisher Web Service from pl/sql

Question

I am trying to call the BI publisher web service from pl/sql.
I get the following response back
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><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>
<soapenv:Fault>
<faultcode xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">ns1:Client.NoSOAPAction</faultcode>
<faultstring>no SOAPAction header!</faultstring>
<detail>
<ns2:hostname xmlns:ns2="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">my-obiee</ns2:hostname>
</detail>
</soapenv:Fault>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
The bit that concerns me is
<faultcode xmlns:ns1="http://xml.apache.org/axis/">ns1:Client.NoSOAPAction</faultcode>
<faultstring>no SOAPAction header!</faultstring>
The code that I used to call this is
DECLARE
req utl_http.req;
resp utl_http.resp;
value VARCHAR2(1024);
p_data_type varchar2(4000):= 'application/soap+xml;';
p_data_in VARCHAR2(3000) :=
'<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:pub="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/service/PublicReportService">
<soapenv:Body>
<pub:scheduleReport xmlns:pub="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/service/PublicReportService">
<scheduleRequest>
<deliveryRequest>
<ftpOption>
<ftpServerName>ino-ed-oel2.inoapps.com</ftpServerName>
<ftpUserName>*******</ftpUserName>
<ftpUserPassword>*****</ftpUserPassword>
<remoteFile>/opt/UAT/db/tech_st/11.1.0/employees.pdf</remoteFile>
</ftpOption>
</deliveryRequest>
<reportRequest>
<attributeFormat>pdf</attributeFormat>
<reportAbsolutePath>http://10.100.100.44:9704/xmlpserver/~administrator/XXXXXXX.xdo</reportAbsolutePath>
<parameterNameValues>
<item>
<name>dname</name>
<multiValuesAllowed>false</multiValuesAllowed>
<values>
<item>153002</item>
</values>
</item>
</parameterNameValues>
</reportRequest>
<userJobName>BILL</userJobName>
</scheduleRequest>
<userID>******</userID>
<password>******</password>
</pub:scheduleReport>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>';
BEGIN
--utl_http.set_proxy('proxy.my-company.com', 'corp.my-company.com');
req := utl_http.begin_request('http://10.100.100.44:9704/xmlpserver/services/PublicReportService?wsdl', 'POST');
utl_http.set_header(req, 'content-type', p_data_type);
utl_http.set_header(req, 'content-length', length(p_data_in));
utl_http.set_header(req, 'User-Agent', 'Mozilla/4.0');
utl_http.write_text(req, p_data_in);
resp := utl_http.get_response(req);
dbms_output.put_line ('status code: ' || resp .status_code);
dbms_output.put_line ('reason phrase: ' || resp .reason_phrase);
LOOP
utl_http.read_line(resp, value, TRUE);
dbms_output.put_line(value);
END LOOP;
utl_http.end_response(resp);
EXCEPTION
WHEN utl_http.end_of_body THEN
utl_http.end_response(resp);
END;
Any help would be greatly received

Answer 1

I had the same problem this morning. You need to add a line to the HTTP header to declare a value for SOAPAction.
You can set this as an empty string, but for some reason it is required.
Try adding this among your header declarations:
utl_http.set_header(req, 'SOAPAction', '');