XSQL File - Dynamic query from standard Browser - XML response.

Question

Hi, this is my first post !
I need to query an Oracle DB from the web browser and get the data in XML format.
I've made some progress but they're still not enough.
I wrote a FIXED query from JDeveloper XSQL File (here is my big lack of knowledge) and then I compiled it, and run it. Doing so, a tcp service listening to specific port was created. (I also have a program called lsnrctl running at server side). For example:
http://IP:PORT/Application1-test1-context-root/query.xsql
Ok, pointing that address from explorer, I happily have the result of my FIXED query in XML format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>
<ROWSET>
<ROW NUM = '1'>
<field_1>value_1</field_1>
<field_2>value_2</field_2>
<field_3>value_3</field_3>
<field_4>value_4</field_4>
</ROW>
<ROW NUM = '2'>
<field_1>value_A</field_1>
<field_2>value_B</field_2>
<field_3>value_C</field_3>
<field_4>value_D</field_4>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
BUT I need to pass the query as a DYNAMIC parameter. Something like:
http:IP:PORT/...?SQL="SELECT * FROM MY_TABLE WHERE my_condition ORDER BY my_column" from the browser.
Please, I will appreciate any suggestion, to put me in the right way!!
I am struggling to find out the solution since last two weeks!
Thank you in advance !
JM

Answer 1

Ok,what I needed was this xsql file:
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'windows-1252'?>
<page xmlns:xsql="urn:oracle-xsql" connection="jdbc/user_xsql_1DS">
<xsql:query max-rows="-1" null-indicator="no" tag-case="lower">
{@sql}
</xsql:query>
</page>
So, from the web browser i can pass ?sql=MY_GENERIC_QUERY. And it works just as I expect.
BUT. I tried this running Embedded OC4J Server (from the IDE). The last step I need is to achive the same result but from a generic web server like Apache.
If I copy the .xsql file to ../htdocs/ the root apache directory for documents, and I ask for http://localhost/query.xsql what I get is the QUERY but not the RESPONSE. I don't get the values from the selected table, what I get again is:
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'windows-1252'?>
<page xmlns:xsql="urn:oracle-xsql" connection="jdbc/user_xsql_1DS">
<xsql:query max-rows="-1" null-indicator="no" tag-case="lower">
{@sql}
</xsql:query>
</page>
Can anybody guide me to configure Apache in order to get the resulting XML, not my query!!
Thank you in advance!
Juan Manuel