OSB invoking RESTful webservices:issue with relative-URI instead of

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Hi,
We have a requirement where we need to pass the request content as string in the URL.
we need to send the request in the URL like:
http://abc.com/rest/xvf/nas<Employee><name>abc</name><empid>1234</empid>...<Employee>
we have used a servicecallout action which is invoking a business service which has the base uri value like:
http://abc.com/rest
and in the insert action we are trying to appened the remaining uri in the rest command i.e
<http:relative-URI>/xvf/nas{fn-bea:serialize($xmldata)}</http:relative-URI>
here $xmldata is <Employee><name>abc</name><empid>1234</empid>...<Employee>
while trying to invoke the service we are getting the error like:
BEA-380000: General runtime error: Illegal character in path at index 36: http://abc.com/rest/xvf/nas& lt ; Employee>& lt ; name>abc& lt ; /name>& lt ; empid>1234>...& lt ; Employee>
before to that we used fn-bea:inlinedXML and fn:bea:serialize functions on the retrieved xml and stored it into the xmldata variable and this variable is displaying the request in the proper xml file, but while appending it to the relative URI method the xml data is changing as like shown above i.e instead of < it is coming as & lt ; and at the end with out invoking the servie it is stoppeing at the OSB with the above error as illegal character, please advice..
how to append the proper xml to the URL/URI in the relative-URI method in the proxy transport??
as here it is coming & lt ; (combined with out space) as < i am changing it as like & lt ; for better understanding
Thanks..
Edited by: user12679330 on May 13, 2010 9:36 AM
Edited by: user12679330 on May 13, 2010 9:40 AM
Edited by: user12679330 on May 13, 2010 9:40 AM

Answer 1

Not sure what you are trying to do but if I am not wrong, you are trying to use HTTP get with REST. You may refer -
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13159_01/osb/docs10gr3/httppollertransport/transports.html#wp1083292
http://blogs.oracle.com/jeffdavies/2009/06/restful_services_with_oracle_s_1.html
http://blogs.oracle.com/jamesbayer/2008/07/using_rest_with_oracle_service.html
http://blogs.oracle.com/woa/2009/04/restify_your_world_and_put_it.html
Regards,
Anuj