Jasper response parsing

Question

Hi All,
I have a lot of problems in parsing SOAP web service response of Jasper
The major problem is that the report document in the response appears at the end of the response. It appears even after the closing tag of the soap response. The images in the response are returned in binary form.
Because the response is partially binary and partially characters so I am not able to parse it correctly. If i make a web service call using APEX webservice references and then put the response in a collection then I get an error. I guess APEX collections are not able to handle this response. I say this because If I call the webservice using UTL_HTTP, then I get the response.
Has anybody parsed a Jasper SOAP web service response which has a report in it.
I have gone through http://www.opal-consulting.de/apex/f?p=20090928:4: but I am not using it.
My question is focused on parsing the response and not on finding other ways of getting it
Thanking you in anticipation of your kind help
Regards

Answer 1

Hi anonymous ;),
I believe that your solution includes a web application and some pl sql packages. I feel that web services are simpler to use and hence I prefered this solution.
I havnt downloaded the package but I believe that the code must be wrapped hence I will not be able to appretiate the beauty of the solution.Well, yes and no. Here is a view of the architecture: http://www.opal-consulting.de/downloads/JasperReportsIntegration/images/screenshot.151.png .
The communication begins in the database by using the plsql package interface (the package is NOT wrapped by the way). There you specify which report you want to use on the server side (tomcat) including which parameters. The plsql package will just construct the url and call the url of the j2ee application residing in the tomcat using utl_http.
In the tomcat your report will be used and a jdbc connection will be initiated to call the database again.
In the whole process you don't need an installation of JasperServer, just my integration kit on tomcat. It includes the required JasperReports libraries.
I believe that you must have found a way out of this trouble since you have a solution in place. I humbly request you to suggest a possible way to parse SOAP web service response of JasperWell, I cannot help you here. If you want to learn to handle SOAP request, then please do. But I don't like the complicated stuff ;). Thus I have implemented a simple url interface which does the job nicely. All you get returned is a blob containing the generated report in the desired format .... very simple :).
Cheers and all the best,
~Dietmar.