Where is the Restful web services sdk?

I'm confused as to where to get this SDK, is it part of
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SBOP BI PLATFORM 4.1 SP1 ENTER .NET SDK RUNTIME WINDOWS
or is it contained in a different package somewhere?
If you know where to get it, let me know, thanks in advance.
Matt

Hi Matt,
Please search before posting, a lot of information is available on the forum.
Take a look at these docs.
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-40754
http://scn.sap.com/community/restful-sdk/blog/2012/11/22/sap-bi-platform-restful-web-service-sdk-demos
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41_webi_restful_ws_en.pdf
REST service is a part of BI Server installer.
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How to update the Query of an existing WEBI document's dataprovider, through the RESTful Web service SDK.

Hi,
I am trying to update the Query of an existing WEBI document's dataprovider, through the RESTful Web service SDK.
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Example:
URI: http://localhost:6405/biprws/raylight/v1/documents/11111/dataproviders/DP0
Expected result;
<dataprovider>
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FYI, the output of this call returns something like:
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Is it possible to add a user using the RESTful Web Services SDK

Others have asked before about user management features in the RESTful Web Services SDK. However I can find no answers or links which provide an answer to the question 'Is it possible to add a user using the BI 4.1 SP2 RESTful Web Services SDK'?
Any help would be appreciated.
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Steve

Hi Steve
Unfortunately, not possible. The BI RESTful can only get "stuff" that is already there. I suppose this would fall under some sort of "Object Creation" API and that is not there. Yet. Rumors abound, but nothing firm. Just as a BTW.; the Business Intelligence platform RESTful Web Service Developer Guide 4.1 is here:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41_bip_rest_ws_en.pdf
SAP Web Intelligence RESTful web service SDK User Guide, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.1
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Details on how to use the RESTful Web Services SDK

Hello,
this sounds really interesting for an important use case we're currently developing. Unfortunately, I am not a skilled developer and would therefore need to know two more things:
1) in the beginning, it says ''assumes that there are no parameter values that need to be set'. Is this a core restriction or just to keep things simpel for this example? For our specific use case, we would need to at least transmit a report name and an execution date (which is not necessarily always equal to 'today')
2) can we have the PDF sent to a Netweaver App Server? Can the target location there be parameterized somehow?
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Hi Philipp,
1) This is just to keep things simple for the example
2) You would need to first send the PDF to a file system, and then have a separate process to send it to the Netweaver App Server. There isn't built-in integration to the Netweaver App Server.
3) Stated simply:
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Report Bursting with RESTful Web Services SDK

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Hi Raghunath,
Looking at your macro, most of the functionality would be available with REST SDK. With BI 4.x REST is now only SDK which provides APIs to work with webi report. With .NET or Java SDK we could not eeven schedule a webi doc with prompts.
With BI 4.1 REST APIs include.
refresh report, schedule report, save report, export which is done by your macro.
For detailed tasks, such as saving and modifying the report for specific users and send to schedule, you would need to play around with REST Urls to understand the workflow.
For starters take a look at the devleopers guide for REST here:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/sbo41/en/sbo41_webi_restful_ws_en.pdf
Here is the doc which compares the availability of SDK APIs with different BI versions.
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-53285
For any Enterprise level tasks, you could always use .NET or Java enterprise SDk and comibe it with your REST app.
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Creating the REST web service

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Hi,
We are getting the following error when trying to access a RESTful web service coming from Apex workspace 4.2.1 and Apex listener 2.1:
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yields:
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Thanks,
Pat
Edited by: patfmnd on Mar 11, 2013 3:25 PM
In reviewing the above error, I think we are realizing that we have to have the Weblogic layer SSL cert (actually the CERT from our BigIP load balancer which also does our SSL termination) imported into the Oracle server wallet where Apex is installed. Am I correct?
PM

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Hi Daniel,
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Consuming RESTful web service in Apex app

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The service XML looks like this:
<ROWSET>
<ROW>
<PROJ_ID>132</PROJ_ID>
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<PROJECT_TITLE>11g- Oracle Upgrade to RAC 11g</PROJECT_TITLE>
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<PSL_NETID>xxxxxx</PSL_NETID>
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Hi,
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 <script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var apex_img_dir = "/i/", htmldb_Img_Dir = apex_img_dir;
//]]>
</script>
<script src="/i/javascript/apex_4_1.min.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
apex.security.framebreaker("D");
//]]>
</script>

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<div id="header">
<div id="app-logo"><a href="f?p=140:1:0"></a></div>
<div id="navbar">
<div class="navbar-entry">Logout</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="tabs">
<div class="frame">
<div class="bg">
<div class="tab-holder">
<div class="first-current">
<div><span>Author</span></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="topbar">
<div class="breadcrumb-region" id="R170908223330421512">
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<div id="breadcrumbs">
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</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="messages"></div>
<div id="body">
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<tr>
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<div class="rounded-corner-region" id="books">
<div class="rc-blue-top">
<div class="rc-blue-top-r">
<div class="rc-title">AUTHOR</div>
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<div class="rc-body-r">
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<td align="right"><label for="P1_ROWS" tabindex="999"><a class="optional-w-help" href="javascript:popupFieldHelp('170907508375421490','6146802068150520')" tabindex="999">Display</a></label></td>
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<option value="15" selected="selected">15</option>
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<option value="30">30</option>
<option value="50">50</option>
<option value="100">100</option>
<option value="200">200</option>
<option value="500">500</option>
<option value="1000">1000</option>
<option value="5000">5000</option>
</select></td>
<td align="left"></td>
<td colspan="1" rowspan="1" align="left"><button value="Go" class="button-gray" type="button" id="P1_GO"><span>Go</span></button></td>
</tr>
</table>
<div id="report_170907030238421484_catch">
<table cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="report_books">
<tr>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="0" border="0" cellspacing="0" summary="" class="report-standard">
<tr>
<th id="AUTHORID" class="header">
<div class="rpt-sort">Authorid<img align="absmiddle" src="/i/arrow_up_gray_dark.gif" width="13" height="12" alt="Sort by this column" /></div>
</th>
<th id="LNAME" class="header">
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</th>
<th id="FNAME" class="header">
<div class="rpt-sort">Fname</div>
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<td headers="FNAME" class="data">JAMES</td>
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<td headers="FNAME" class="data">JUAN</td>
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<tr class="highlight-row">
<td headers="AUTHORID" class="data">F100</td>
<td headers="LNAME" class="data">FIELDS</td>
<td headers="FNAME" class="data">OSCAR</td>
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<tr class="highlight-row">
<td headers="AUTHORID" class="data">J100</td>
<td headers="LNAME" class="data">JONES</td>
<td headers="FNAME" class="data">JANICE</td>
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<tr class="highlight-row">
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<td headers="LNAME" class="data">KZOCHSKY</td>
<td headers="FNAME" class="data">TAMARA</td>
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<td headers="FNAME" class="data">SHEILA</td>
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<td headers="AUTHORID" class="data">P100</td>
<td headers="LNAME" class="data">PORTER</td>
<td headers="FNAME" cla
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REST Web Service References: Can't run Google APIS

Hello Everyone!
I am learning on how to integrate REST web service reference in APEX application. I found a tutorial video at YouTube on 'Creating and Using a RESTful Web Service in Application Express 4.2', which found to be very helpful and easy to do on my sample app. The REST Web Service URL:
http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=san%20fancisco&sensor=false
But my application throws an error as below:
1 error has occurred
ORA-29273: HTTP request failed ORA-06512: at "SYS.UTL_HTTP", line 1130 ORA-24247: network access denied by access control list (ACL)
After going through some of the posts here at OTN, I have granted access as follows:
GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.UTL_HTTP TO ETI;
GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.UTL_INADDR TO ETI;
GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.UTL_TCP TO ETI;
GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.UTL_SMTP TO ETI;
GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.UTL_URL to ETI;
GRANT EXECUTE ON SYS.UTL_XML to ETI;
Second thing I did was, created and assigned ACL:
begin
dbms_network_acl_admin.create_acl (
    acl         => 'googleapis.xml',
    description => 'Google Translate API',
    principal   => 'CONNECT',
    is_grant    => true,
    privilege   => 'connect',
    start_date => null,
    end_date    => null
dbms_network_acl_admin.add_privilege (
    acl       => 'googleapis.xml',
    principal => 'CONNECT',
    is_grant => true,
    privilege => 'connect'
dbms_network_acl_admin.assign_acl (
    acl => 'googleapis.xml',
    host => 'ajax.googleapis.com'
dbms_network_acl_admin.assign_acl (
    acl => 'googleapis.xml',
    host => 'maps.googleapis.com'
end;
All these statements were executed on my database with out any error, even though not helping my web service reference to work.
Any idea how can I get my Google API REST Web service working, what is the thing I'm missing here?

I apologize for the lack of information.
I thought I had included a list of schemas for you to try out.
At first, (due to the GRANT ___ TO ETI;) I thought you were writing your own Web Service parser in PL/SQL.
(If that was the case, than ETI would need be part with the ACL)
Then, I realized,you were using the built in APEX functionality.
In this case, try adding your APEX_{version} schema as part of the ACL.
I'm not sure if this will work (I haven't tried it).
However, I do know you need to add the APEX_{version} to the ACL if you use the LDAP Authentication.
finding APEX_{version}
select comp_id, version, status, schema
from dba_registry
where comp_id='APEX'
MK

Problem getting RESTful web service reference working with header value

Hi,
I posted this on Apex Listener forum but since I am not sure problem is with my Application RESTful web service reference or a Listener issue, I am posting here as well:
I am on Apex 4.2.2 and Listener 2.1 and the listener is on WEblogic.
I succeeded to get a RESTful web service working in an application with no header to obtain a full set of data. The data set is very large, so I am now just trying to set up a web service to get a set of data based on a student ID.
I followed the examples shown in the RESTful web service module of SQL Workshop and set up a handler of this type:
https://ourweblogicserver/apex/bnr/ace/students/course_grades/{stid}
The test for this handler succeeded both for JSON output and CSV output in the Workshop test environment.
However, when I try it from a Web Service Reference that I created for my application following what looked like the same approach used on the example video, I get NO data back. If I put a 'stid' directly into a URL of a web browser and do the basic authentication I get the data!!
This is what I have for the Web service reference:
https://ourweblogicserver/apex/bnr/ace/students/course_grades/{stid}
Basic auth set to Yes -- and this is working -- I am able to authenticate
HTTP method Get
output format Text
no response Xpath
no response namespace
defaults for new record and parameter delimiter
NO REST input parameters
Output set for all the fields in the data set queried (same set of data as in my rest service which does not have any http header)
REST HTTP Header : Name stid
I there something I am missing. I am not sure how to troubleshoot this further.
I also tried exactly following the example shown on the Oracle Video for RESTFul web services at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkCvd6P8_OU
and I can't get the 2nd example to work either-- where the header has the bind variable parameter.
Pat

I was able to resolve the problem -- in the latest version of the RESTful web service that I created, I had left out the creation of the Header Parameter bind variable. Once I did that everything works fine!! I was able to test in the application and got the record of an individual student.
Thanks,
PM

Basic auth with RESTful WEb service and Web Service reference

Hi, All,
We have made much progress on getting an application working wtih RESTful web services but now are trying to figure out how to lock down a RESTful Web service while making it available for a particular application.
We are using one of the sample 'emp' table web services that come with Apex 4.2 and are trying to apply Basic Auth to the WEb Service via Weblogic filter defined in the web.xml file. That works fine. I now get challenged when I try to go to :
https://wlogic.edu/apex/bnr/ace/hr/empinfo/
And when I authenticate to that challenge I am able to get the data. (we are usiing LDAP authentication at the Weblogic level)
However, I am not sure how to get same basic authentication to work with the Web Service reference in my application. I see the error message in the application when I try to call that Web Service:
401--Unauthorized<
And I see:
"The request requires user authentication. The response MUST include a WWW-Authenticate header field (section 14.46) containing a challenge applicable to the requested resource. The client MAY repeat the request with a suitable Authorization header field (section 14.8). If the request already included Authorization credentials"
How do I provide the credentials in the Web REference or do I provide credentials in the Application?
Web service works fine if I remove the RESTful web service basic auth from the Web.xml file.
Should we NOT use Weblogic basic auth and instead use basic auth from Workspace RESTful web service definition. If so, how do we implement THAT basic auth in the Web Service definition and in the Web SErvice Reference on the application?
Thanks,
Pat

What I mean is diid you try to use the PL/SQL package for APEX webservice. Here is an example I use (modified and shortened, just to show how much better this is than to use it from the application).
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE webservice_pkg
IS
   PROCEDURE create_webservice (
      p_id            IN       NUMBER,
      p_message       OUT      VARCHAR2,
      p_workspace     IN       VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'MY_WORKSPACE',
      p_app_id        IN       NUMBER DEFAULT v ('APP_ID'),
      p_app_session   IN       VARCHAR2 DEFAULT v ('SESSION'),
      p_app_user      IN       VARCHAR2 DEFAULT v ('APP_USER')
END webservice_pkg;
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY webservice_pkg
IS
   PROCEDURE set_credentials (
      p_workspace     IN   VARCHAR2,
      p_app_id        IN   NUMBER,
      p_app_session   IN   VARCHAR2,
      p_app_user      IN   VARCHAR2
   IS
      v_workspace_id   NUMBER;
   BEGIN
      SELECT workspace_id
        INTO v_workspace_id
        FROM apex_workspaces
       WHERE workspace = p_workspace;
      apex_util.set_security_group_id (v_workspace_id);
      apex_application.g_flow_id := p_app_id;
      apex_application.g_instance := p_app_session;
      apex_application.g_user := p_app_user;
   END set_credentials;
   PROCEDURE create_webservice (
      p_id            IN       NUMBER,
      p_message       OUT      VARCHAR2,
      p_workspace     IN       VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'MY_WORKSPACE',
      p_app_id        IN       NUMBER DEFAULT v ('APP_ID'),
      p_app_session   IN       VARCHAR2 DEFAULT v ('SESSION'),
      p_app_user      IN       VARCHAR2 DEFAULT v ('APP_USER')
   IS
      v_envelope          VARCHAR2 (32000);
      v_server            VARCHAR2 (400);
      v_url               VARCHAR2 (4000);
      v_result_url        VARCHAR2 (1000);
      v_collection_name   VARCHAR2 (40)    := 'PDF_CARD';
      v_message           VARCHAR2 (4000);
      v_xmltype001        XMLTYPE;
   BEGIN
      v_url := v_server || '.myserver.net/services/VisitCardCreator?wsdl';
      FOR c IN (SELECT *
                  FROM DUAL)
      LOOP
         v_envelope :=
               '<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" '
            || 'xmlns:bran="http://www.myaddress.com">'
            || CHR (10)
            || '<soapenv:Header/><soapenv:Body>'
            || CHR (10)
            || '<parameter:'
            || 'some_value'
            || '>'
            || CHR (10)
            || '<bran:templateID>'
            || p_id
            || '</bran:templateID>'
            || '</soapenv:Body>'
            || CHR (10)
            || '</soapenv:Envelope>';
      END LOOP;
      set_credentials (p_workspace, p_app_id, p_app_session, p_app_user);
      BEGIN
         apex_web_service.make_request
                                     (p_url                  => v_url,
                                      p_collection_name      => v_collection_name,
                                      p_envelope             => v_envelope
         p_message := 'Some message.';
      EXCEPTION
         WHEN OTHERS
         THEN
            v_message :=
                  v_message
               || '</br>'
               || 'Error running Webservice Request. '
               || SQLERRM;
      END;
      BEGIN
         SELECT    v_result_url
                || EXTRACTVALUE (VALUE (t),
                                 '/*/' || 'Return',
                                 'xmlns="http://www.myaddress.com"'
                xmltype001
           INTO v_result_url,
                v_xmltype001
           FROM wwv_flow_collections c,
                TABLE
                    (XMLSEQUENCE (EXTRACT (c.xmltype001,
                                           '//' || 'Response',
                                           'xmlns="http://www.myaddress.com"'
                    ) t
          WHERE c.collection_name = v_collection_name;
      EXCEPTION
         WHEN OTHERS
         THEN
            v_message := v_message || '</br>' || 'Error reading Collection.';
      END;
   EXCEPTION
      WHEN OTHERS
      THEN
         p_message := v_message || '</br>' || SQLERRM;
   END create_webservice;
END webservice_pkg;
/If you use it this way, you will find out what the problem is much faster.
Denes Kubicek
http://deneskubicek.blogspot.com/
http://www.apress.com/9781430235125
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=31517:1
http://www.amazon.de/Oracle-APEX-XE-Praxis/dp/3826655494
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Consume JSON rest web services

Hi experts,
I have a requirement to Consume rest web services from a URL, which is in JSON format. Help me out to make it.
Thanks
~Faseeh

Hi Faseeh,
As Anthony has mentioned earlier, you need to specify the accept header as application/json. The Business Intelligence platform RESTful web service SDK also supports providing responses in JSON format. Please refer to the document links which Ludek has pointed out. There are 2 formats which are supported - XML (BIP SDK follows ATOM specification) and JSON.
For eg. for a particular request, below are the responses in 2 formats:
XML format:
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
<title type="text">5432</title>
<id>tag:sap.com,2010:bip-rs/AfRWaT5_131NlLLf5bRMLKY/relationships/receivedAlerts/5432</id>
<author>
<name>Administrator</name>
<uri>http://commandcom-lcm:6405/biprws/infostore/12</uri>
</author>
<link href="http://commandcom-lcm:6405/biprws/infostore/5432" rel="related"></link>
<content type="application/xml">
<attrs xmlns="http://www.sap.com/rws/bip">
<attr name="id" type="int32">5432</attr>
<attr name="markedAsRead" type="bool">false</attr>
</attrs>
</content>
</entry>
JSON format:
"related":
"__deferred":
{"uri":"http://commandcom-lcm:6405/biprws/infostore/5432"}
"id":5432,
"markedAsRead":false
Hope this clarifies.
Regards
Sumitesh

How to build complex object to be sent to a RESTful web service?

Hi,
I'm working with RESTful web services on J2EE 1.6.
I create the database, generate the entities and generate the web services.
I must implement Javascript clients and I don't want to use any open source for that.
I have a simple example that works just fine. For the database :
CREATE TABLE Shopper(
shopperId MEDIUMINT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
firstName VARCHAR(40),
lastName VARCHAR(40),
phone VARCHAR(40),
email VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
receiveEmailNotification ENUM('Y', 'N'),
index(email)
I create this xml information with javascript :
*<shopper>*
*<email>c</email>*
*<firstName>c</firstName>*
*<lastName>c</lastName>*
*<phone>c</phone>*
*<receiveEmailNotification>Y</receiveEmailNotification>*
*</shopper>*
and it is saved in the database. I have a more complex application with relationships between entites. For this database :
CREATE TABLE Shopper(
shopperId MEDIUMINT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
firstName VARCHAR(40),
lastName VARCHAR(40),
phone VARCHAR(40),
email VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL,
receiveEmailNotification ENUM('Y', 'N'),
index(email)
CREATE TABLE Address(
addressId MEDIUMINT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
street VARCHAR(60),
streetNo VARCHAR(20),
postalCode VARCHAR(30),
city VARCHAR(40),
country VARCHAR(40),
otherInfo TEXT,
shopperId MEDIUMINT NOT NULL,
foreign key (shopperId) REFERENCES shopper(shopperId) ON DELETE CASCADE,
index(shopperId)
I was expecting that xml information sent from the browser should be:
*<address>*
*<city>c</city>*
*<country>c</country>*
*<otherInfo>c</otherInfo>*
*<postalCode>c</postalCode>*
*<street>c</street>*
*<streetNo>c</streetNo>*
*<shopper>*
*<email>c</email>*
*<firstName>c</firstName>*
*<lastName>c</lastName>*
*<phone>c</phone>*
*<receiveEmailNotification>Y</receiveEmailNotification>*
*</shopper>*
*</address>*
but I keep on getting errors.
I want to send one XML structure that will be stored in two tables according to the foreign key relation.
Does the RESTful web services code generated by Netbeans or Eclipse support this?
Is my XML structure not built correctly?

Kevin,
My object base class is Abstract and class I am using in Flex 3 is class inheriting abstract class. But when calling webservice Flex creating soap message of base class and I am getting error in .Net web services that "Can not create instance of Abstract class".
Below is the soap message difference calling same WCF method from .Net and Flex. For example Constraint is the base class and JobConstraint is the class which inherit Constraint class. But flex send message forming only Constraint while .Net soap is specifying i:type="JobConstraint".
Part of soap message Calling from .Net
<
Constraints><
Constraint i:type="JobConstraint"><Position
>true</Position><
Rank>2</Rank><
Requirement>true</Requirement></
Constraint></
Constraints>
Part of Soap message calling from Flex 3
<ns0:Constraints>
<ns0:Constraint>
<ns0:Position>true</ns0:Position>
<ns0:Rank>2</ns0:Rank>
<ns0:Requirement>true</ns0:Requirement>
</ns0:Constraint>
</ns0:Constraints>

Problem with RESTful web service

I am running into a problem with Flex Web Services (REST) in trying to get the proper format returned. I can see that the HTTP header is set to
Accept: */*;
rather than
Accept: application/xml
when sending the request. The web service was generated via the web services HTTP data services wizard. I edited it to set the resultFormat to xml
    // Constructor
    public function _Super_UsersService()
        // initialize service control
        _serviceControl = new mx.rpc.http.HTTPMultiService();
         var operations:Array = new Array();
         var operation:mx.rpc.http.Operation;
         var argsArray:Array;
         operation = new mx.rpc.http.Operation(null, "getUsers");
         operation.url = "http://localhost:8888/users";
         operation.contentType = "";
         operation.method = "GET";
         operation.resultFormat = "xml";
         //operation.serializationFilter = serializer0;
         operation.properties = new Object();
         operation.properties["xPath"] = "/";
         operation.resultType = valueObjects.Users;
         operations.push(operation);
         _serviceControl.operationList = operations;
         model_internal::initialize();
How does one configure the accept header?

Hi,
I have posted a simple application with the RESTful reference:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=13758
I can give you full privileges on this so you can look at the WEB service reference. Shall I send to you separately for login user?
It is using the RESTful service: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/nd_pat_miller/demo/employee/{deptno}
This RESTful service tests fine when I test from within the RESTful web service module of the Workspace.
I based this on the Video demo tutorial for RESTful web service that Oracle published for 4.2 release. The video seemed to exclude the {deptno} in the URL but when I try that, it doesn't work either.
This is the error I am getting when I run this on my Apex environment: (it, of course, will not run the web service in the apex.oracle.com environment)
class="statusMessage">Bad Request</span>
</h3>
</div>
</div>
<div id="xWhiteContentContainer" class="xContentWide">
<div class="xWhiteContent">
<div class="errorPage">
<p>
<ul class="reasons"><li class="badRequestReason"><span class="target" style="display:none;">uri</span><span class="reason">Request path contains unbound parameters: deptno</span></li>
</ul>Thanks,
Pat
Edited by: patfmnd on May 8, 2013 3:33 AM

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