Web Services

[ritesh_a_ramkhe]

Hi, Is there a way to call a VBO/process that has been exposed as a web service, from external code? If so, which url is used to call this web service? Thanks

[John__Carter]

Hi Ritesh - check the BP help but essentially its http://[machinename]:[port]/ws/

[ritesh_a_ramkhe]

Hi John, Thanks for your reply. So if I make a HTTP GET request to this url, it will invoke the web service? Or will this just access the WSDL for the web service?

[John__Carter]

It will show you the available service WSDLs for that resource; to call an individual service the url will include the service name. Try it - expose a process as a WS and navigate to the address in IE.

[ritesh_a_ramkhe]

I have entered http://[machine name]:8181/ws/WSTest/ into IE, where WSTest is the name of the exposed process. The response i get is a HTTP 404 Error.

[Denis__Dennehy]

I can recommending downloading and using SOAPUI to test your web services. The tool allows you to set input parameters to test the SOAP service and check the resultset returned.

[ritesh_a_ramkhe]

Hi Denis, Thanks, I will check it out. Also, do you know if there is some sort of authentication which is needed to carry out an exposed Blue Prism web service when calling it from external code?