Retrieving data from Salesforce SOAP API

Hi
I would like to using BizTalk 2010 to call the 'query' web method of the SalesForce SOAP API and have it return some data I further process in BizTalk. There are various online examples, albeit quite old ones, of sections of what I want to achieve
this but no complete examples with sample code. I would like to avoid doing any SalesForce APEX customisation.
So far I have a SalesForce account and have created some contacts. In BizTalk I've created an orchestration, which calls a Helper class. This C# helper class just logs into SalesForce and returns a Session ID and Server URL. BizTalk then
creates a SalesForce 'query' message, with a query such as 'SELECT FirstName, LastName FROM Contact'. I then populate the message header with the Session ID and using a dynamic port, set the address to be the Server URL. This seems ok, I get the
sessionID and Server URL, but when calling the 'query' method from the orchestration I just get a 'The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error.' error.
I really can't see what I doing wrong. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Colin.

Correctly pointed out by Ashwin, this error is definitely due to wrong message structure/data value being passed across to the server.
Periodically there are refresh happening in Salesforce Sandbox database to bring it in sync with production Salesforce database. After such refresh
there might be problems to connect or communicate with Salesforce.com using SOAP receiver adapter.
To debug the issue further you can import the latest enterprise WSDL into the SOAP UI tool and set up proxy server details if any. Under each project
there will be operations such as login, logout, query etc. Right click on query and generate new instance of query. This is because this helps to find out the exact structure of the SOAP message being accepted by Salesforce.com. There cannot be any change
in number of tags or name of tags in SOAP message.
Compare the message structure with the message you have created in orchestration. Issue could be as simple as difference in namespace information.
For more details refer: Troubleshooting
SAP-PI and Salesforce.com integration scenario
Rachit

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To retrieve data from list in your provider-hosted app using SharePoint Client Object Model(CSOM), you can follow the links below for a quick start:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/fp142381(v=office.15).aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steve_fox/archive/2013/02/22/building-your-first-provider-hosted-app-for-sharepoint-part-2.aspx
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Patrick Liang
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Up to now, only tables and views have been used as data sources for the DB Connect from the R3 Basis. As soon as synonyms are also used in the Basis, you will be able to convert created views (or even replicated tables) to synonyms as a workaround.
With Basis 6.40 at the earliest, therefore as of BW 3.5, you will also be able to use synonyms. Until then, the following will help:
CREATE VIEW <view_on_synonym> AS SELECT * FROM <synonym>
- The source DB must have at least the release version of the BW DB.
Oracle only ensures the support of client-server links if the version of the client is not higher than that of the server. So if BW has Oracle version 8.1 and, as in the case of Dbconnect, is run as a client against the server of the source database, the source database must have at least release Oracle 8.1 or higher.
Of course, you have the option to install the Oracle client software of a lower version and then use this for the DB connect. This is also the procedure used to work with a DB connect on external databases of other vendors.
Furthermore, the implementation of the DBconnect function in BW uses SAP Basis functions. Specifications of Oracle 8.1 database catalogs are used here. The source database must therefore have at least Version 8.1.
- Oracle Client Software Version
If you want to connect from an Oracle BW DB to an Oracle source DB, for the DB connect you naturally use the client software that you already installed on each application server.
If you want to connect from a non-Oracle BW DB to an Oracle source DB, check item 3 of note 521230 to see which Oracle client software version is released with your BW R3 kernel and use this version.
- Date and time fields in Oracle and their conversion into SAP-compatible column formats
Example with a DATE field:
Since a SAP table does not have a DATE field (date values are NUMC(8) and time specifications are NUMC(6)), we will use the Oracle DBA_TABLES system table as an example.
    SQL> desc dba_tables;
The Oracle DBA_TABLES system table has a LAST_ANALYZED field. This is a DATE type field and is recognized as a date field of 7 characters by DBA_CONNECT. However, the import does not work because the DATE is a 7-byte conglomerate of "...century, year, month, date, hour, minute and second." (extract from the Oracle documentation).
To make this DATE field legible for DB connect, you must use the TO_CHAR function in a VIEW. This should display the following examples:
SQL> select LAST_ANALYZED from dba_tables
      where table_name like 'RS%' and rownum < 10 ;
The formatting used here is the default used implicitly by SQLPLUS.
SQL> select to_char(LAST_ANALYZED,'YYYYMMDD') as dat from dba_tables where table_name like 'RS%' and rownum < 10 ;
The result now has the SAP compatible format YYYYMMDD and should be loaded correctly by the DB connect as a date.
SQL> select to_char(LAST_ANALYZED,'HH24MISS') as tim from dba_tables where table_name like 'RS%' and rownum < 10 ;
The result now has the SAP compatible format HHMMSS and should be loaded correctly by the DB connect as a time.
You can use the following example for more detailed experiments:
SQL> select to_char(
       TO_DATE('03-FEB-2001 04:05:06','DD-MON-YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),
       'YY-MM-DD HH24-MI-SS') as datim from dual;
with the result:
DATIM
01-02-03 04-05-06
When you create a VIEW and use the TO_CHAR function (or other functions), you should easily be able to avoid problems with the interpretation of date/time specifications (and other reformatting).
Details about the functions and the formats are contained in the Oracle documentation.
- Special characters
A words that contain special characters can only be imported correctly if the code pages in BW and in the source system are identical. If the code pages are not the same, DB Connect can be used if the characters to be imported appear under the first 127 characters of the character set.
The use of multibyte code pages in the source system for saving data using character sets with more than 256 characters (Kanji, Katakana, Hiragana, Korean, Chinese, Tagalog, Khmer, Arabic, Cherokee, and so on) can cause the characters to become corrupt.
For questions concerning the code pages, also refer to the FAQ note 606359 and question/answer 19 that appears there.

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Hello.
I would like to ask you how it is possible to retrieve data
from a dynamic page (asp classic in my case) using the loadURL
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I would like to create an html authentication form (with
username and password fields). The loadURL method should call an
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Of course I'm going to have a switch in the function in order
to make different actions depending from the results of the asp
page (authentication succeded or failed).
I had a look to the examples at this page:
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retrieve them ?
I thank you in advance for your help.

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content you return is XML, you have 2 choices for accessing your
data. You can either access it as a text string via the
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text via
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response like JSON or plain text, then you can only access the data
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