Trusted Authentication with Web Services SDK

Hi,
I have just configured my BO server to use Trusted Authentication (REMOTE_USER) and It works with Infoview so I don't need the logon page to enter user and password.
I also have an .NET application that uses Web Services SDK and I would like to use Trusted Authentication on it.
Is there any code to access to BO using Web Services SDK?
Before the configuration, I was using this code:
string m_strURL="http://server:8080/dswsbobje/services/Session";
BusinessObjects.DSWS.Connection oConnection = new BusinessObjects.DSWS.Connection(m_strURL);
BusinessObjects.DSWS.Session m_wiSession = new Session(oConnection);
BusinessObjects.DSWS.Session.EnterpriseCredential oEC = new EnterpriseCredential();
oEC.Login = strLogin;
oEC.Password = strPassword;
oEC.AuthType = "secLDAP";
SessionInfo oSI = m_wiSession.Login(oEC);
Now, I want to use Trusted Authentication in my .NET application so I wouldn't have to enter user and password.
I have looking for some code, but I haven't found it yet. I hope you could help me.
Thanks,
Sandra

Hi, Ted,
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2010-02-18 14:09:20,781 [http-8080-Processor25] ERROR com.businessobjects.qaaws.internal.transport.QaaWSServlet () 297906 - invoke()
java.lang.Exception: com.crystaldecisions.sdk.exception.SDKServerException: Enterprise authentication could not log you on. Please make sure your logon information is correct. (FWB 00008)
cause:com.crystaldecisions.enterprise.ocaframework.idl.OCA.oca_abuse: IDL:img.seagatesoftware.com/OCA/oca_abuse:3.2
detail:Enterprise authentication could not log you on. Please make sure your logon information is correct. (FWB 00008)
The server supplied the following details: OCA_Abuse exception 10498 at [.\secpluginent.cpp : 832] 42040 {}
 ...Invalid password
 at com.businessobjects.qaaws.internal.webi.WISessionMgr.makeSession(Unknown Source)
 at com.businessobjects.qaaws.internal.transport.QaaWSServlet.invoke(Unknown Source)
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 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:647)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:729)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
 at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
 at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108)
 at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:873)
 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.runIt(LeaderFollowerWorkerThread.java:81)
 at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:689)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.sdk.exception.SDKServerException: Enterprise authentication could not log you on. Please make sure your logon information is correct. (FWB 00008)
cause:com.crystaldecisions.enterprise.ocaframework.idl.OCA.oca_abuse: IDL:img.seagatesoftware.com/OCA/oca_abuse:3.2
detail:Enterprise authentication could not log you on. Please make sure your logon information is correct. (FWB 00008)
The server supplied the following details: OCA_Abuse exception 10498 at [.\secpluginent.cpp : 832] 42040 {}
 ...Invalid password
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 at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.exception.SDKException.map(SDKException.java:196)
 at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.doUserLogon(LogonService.java:710)
 at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.userLogon(LogonService.java:295)
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 at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.framework.internal.SessionMgr.logon(SessionMgr.java:425)
 ... 19 more
Caused by: com.crystaldecisions.enterprise.ocaframework.idl.OCA.oca_abuse: IDL:img.seagatesoftware.com/OCA/oca_abuse:3.2
 at com.crystaldecisions.enterprise.ocaframework.idl.OCA.oca_abuseHelper.read(oca_abuseHelper.java:106)
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 at com.crystaldecisions.enterprise.ocaframework.ManagedService.invoke(ManagedService.java:424)
 at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal._LogonEx4Proxy.UserLogonEx4(_LogonEx4Proxy.java:222)
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 at com.crystaldecisions.sdk.occa.security.internal.LogonService.doUserLogon(LogonService.java:684)
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org.apache.axis2.AxisFault: org.apache.axis2.databinding.ADBException: Unexpected subelement table
 at org.apache.axis2.AxisFault.makeFault(AxisFault.java:430)
 at service.wsdl.heartFailure.HFReliabilityScoreStub.fromOM(HFReliabilityScoreStub.java:4131)
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 at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
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 Private USER_NAME As String = "user"
 Private USER_PASSWORD As String = "password"
 Private bipService As BIPlatform
 Private boRepEng As ReportEngine
 Private wSession As Session
 Private Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Init
 ConfigureCrystalReports()
 End Sub
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 ' The following sample code demonstrates how to view a report using the Web Services BIPlatform and \
 ' Report Engine services.
 ' Just running the following code will enable you to view a simple report with no additional options.
 ' Include the commented blocks of code to view reports with different viewing options:
 ' - View a report in PDF format
 ' - View a report with database logon information
 ' - View a report with discrete parameters
 ' Note: You may have to change some parts of the code to make the special viewing options work.
 Logon()
 ViewReport()
 End Sub
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 Dim wSession As BusinessObjects.DSWS.Session.Session
 Try
 Dim boConnection As BusinessObjects.DSWS.Connection = New BusinessObjects.DSWS.Connection(WS_URL_SESSION)
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 Console.WriteLine("Logging into web service..." + WS_URL_SESSION)
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 credential.Login = CMS_USER
 credential.Password = CMS_USER_PASSWORD
 credential.Domain = CMS_CLUSTER_NAME
 credential.AuthType = CMS_AUTHENTICATION
 wSession = New BusinessObjects.DSWS.Session.Session(boConnection)
 wSession.Login(credential)
 Console.WriteLine("Logged into web service.")
 boConnection.URL = WS_URL_BIPLATFORM
 bipService = New BIPlatform(boConnection, wSession.ConnectionState)
 boConnection.URL = WS_URL_REPORTENGINE
 boRepEng = New ReportEngine(boConnection, wSession.ConnectionState)
 Session("Platform") = bipService
 Session("ReportEngine") = boRepEng
 Catch ex As DSWSException
 Console.Error.WriteLine(ex)
 Console.Error.WriteLine(ex.CauseDetail)
 Throw
 End Try
 End Sub
 Private Sub ViewReport()
 Try
 'Get PageInfo
 Dim boGetOptions As New GetOptions
 boGetOptions = New GetOptions
 boGetOptions.IncludeSecurity = True
 'Dim query As String = "path://InfoObjects/Root Folder/**/" + REPORT_NAME
 Dim query As String = "query://{Select TOP 1 * FROM CI_SYSTEMOBJECTS WHERE SI_NAME = 'secLDAP'}"
 Dim reportRH As ResponseHolder = bipService.Get(query, boGetOptions)
 Dim boReports As InfoObjects = reportRH.InfoObjects
 If (Nothing Is boReports) Then
 Return
 End If
 Dim repID As String = boReports.InfoObject(0).CUID
 Response.Write("RepID " + repID.ToString)
 Dim testLDAP As BusinessObjects.DSWS.BIPlatform.Auth.secLDAP
 testLDAP = boReports.InfoObject(0)
 Response.Write(" CUID: " + testLDAP.CUID.ToString)
 testLDAP.UpdateTime = DateTime.Now
 bipService.Update(reportRH.InfoObjects)
 Response.Write(" LDAP updated ")
 Catch ex As DSWSException
 Console.Error.WriteLine(ex)
 Console.Error.WriteLine(ex.CauseDetail)
 Throw
 Finally
 If Not wSession Is Nothing Then
 wSession.Logout()
 End If
 Console.Write("Press the [ENTER] key to terminate program.")
 End Try
 End Sub
End Class
Where do you have your BusinessObjects.DSWS .dlls?
If you right click on "BusinessObjects.DSWS.dll" and go to Properties and the version tab, what is the full File version?
I am having someone test this with version 3.0 today as I do not have that version setup.
Elaine
Edited by: Ludek Uher on Mar 20, 2009 12:29 PM

BI Launchpad & XI vs Web Services SDK - BusinessObjects 4.x

Hello,
I am new to using the .NET SDK and have noticed that there are two different versions that do similar things. I am looking to add functionality into my company's .NET-based website where we can add BO users on the fly into preset groups. I noticed that this administrative functionality is available with the XI .NET SDK (CrystalDecisions,etc) but it is not available with the Web Services SDK (BusinessObjects.DSWS,etc). Is this something that can be done with the Web Services SDK? If not, is it a good practice to use the XI SDK for Web Applications?
I am also looking to log into the BI Launchpad programmatically so user's do not see the login screen. I have tried logging the user into BO using the Web Services SDK and saving the proper information into cookies that are created when one logs into the BI Launchpad. While I created all the proper cookies, when I navigate to the webpage with the embedded Launchpad it will not recognize these cookies, prompt for login credentials, and overwrite them if I log in. I set the property allowInsecureToken=true in BILaunchpad.properties so I can at least work with it in an IFrame. Is this a good way to go about this task? If not, is there a better way?
I have been working on this for a week or two and read a lot of articles, viewed samples, experimented with code, etc. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dustin

Thanks for your reply.
Perhaps I am muddying up the terms but I believe I am using the same version. The path where I find the dlls that contain CrystalDecisions.Enterprise.* is as follows:
C:\Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 4.0\win32_x86\dotnet\iPoint
Unless I am mistaken in thinking they wouldn't package old libraries with newer versions.
I have used the .NET SDK to do the user management tasks with a number of my clients. However, they don't necessarily access the SDK directly from the web app. While one client did this directly from their application, another client had an extensive batch processing system and they would schedule a user update job, passing in the parameters needed to add/update/delete the user. Yet another client wrapped all of their BO-related code in a web service and called that to do the user management (among many other things.) So, I believe that you could definitely do this directly from your application.
According to the documentation I have found, it looks like the BIPlatform portion of the sdk is the closest section to this, though it has differing functions between the Web Services SDK and the other one I discussed. The web services documentation does not talk about anything related to user management. Do you have any links that would go into more depth regarding the specifics of implementing this functionality?
I will look into adding single sign on for this.
Thanks again!

Doc for Web services SDK (not using Consumer APIs)?

I would like to interact with the BO XIr2 Web Services SDK, but I can't find much documentation about them (aside from what the WSDLs cough up). I don't necessarily want to use the Consumer APIs for the web services. So I'm really looking for examples or even just a sort of "object model" for the web services that describe what the different calls in the WSDL do and in what order you need to call them to get things done like refreshing a report and getting the results as an HTML stream.
Does anyone have any examples/doc?
Thanks.

Hi,
Let me ponder Ted's statement above. Indeed we do not test our web services sdk outside of our .NET and Java consumers but we do support using directly WSDL as long as the SOAP engine you are using is WS-Interoperable Basic Profile 1.O compliant (as we are compliant) or if issue can be reproduced using our java or .net consumers.
Below a couple of links in our web service documentation that mention WS-I BP and WSDL:
http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/BusinessObjectsXIR2SP2/en/en/WS_SDK/wssdk_consumer/default
http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/BusinessObjectsXIR2SP2/en/en/WS_SDK/wssdk_consumer/doc/wssdk_dg/InstallingDevEnvironment11.html
Let me also mention new SP2 release web services: BI Process Web Service and Query as a Web Service, these do not include consumers.

Web Services SDK (Java API)

Hi,
By using Web Services SDK (Java API) can I extract the Table,Join information related to a Universe?
If so, then can you please give me some guidelines?
Thanks
Nirabhra

Hi Nirabhra,
I don't think this is possible with the Web Services SDK.
This can only be done through the Universe Designer SDK (which is only available in COM).
Please kindly refer to the API reference for the Universe Designer SDK for more details:
[http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir31/en/bodessdk.chm]
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Regards,
Dan

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