Consume a restful webservice using plsql

Question

Hi
We need to consume a restful webservice and this needs to be implemented using plsql.
I know that we can use utl_dbws or utl_http to consume SOAP based web services but
there is not much information on how to consume restful web services.
kindly let me know if you have information.
Cheers
rigel

Answer 1

851866 wrote:
Im looking for the opposite scenario where i need to access a restful web service from plsql.Why would a RESTful call be any different from a normal URL call? HTTP is the transport mechanism - and UTL_HTTP is used in PL/SQL as the client side of a HTTP conversation.
I posted sample code of a how to use PL/SQL as a brower client in {message:id=1925297} - using a pipeline table to demonstrate the contents returned by the web server in response using plain SQL.
Depending on what the contents is, you can write it into a BLOB (dealing with binary data returned), a CLOB (for XML data for example), or using varchar2 you can for example parse a text/csv response (no need for a pipeline in such a case).
The only real issue I can see with a RESTful service is URL construction - as the URL becomes "parameterised" and not just the query string itself, or the data contents (name values) in the POST structure.