Operation Configuration Tab

Procedure

You can display or change the following data in the upper screen area of the tab:

Field	Description
Endpoint URL	The URL of the service is displayed here. Note For a RESTful Web service, you need to enter the URL of the RESTful Web service that you want here.
Operation	The operation selected previously is displayed here. Note This field is empty for a RESTful Web service because the operation is already part of the URL.

For Web and OData services, the variables of the request are displayed in the lower screen area on the Request Message Configuration tab. The checkbox for the variables is already selected so no additional entries are required. (See also: Request Message Configuration Tab (RESTful) and Request Message Configuration Tab (OData and Web Service).)

Note

If you have selected, for example, a Read_all operation of an OData service, no parameters are offered for the configuration on the Request Message Configuration tab; in other words, the table is empty. In this case, you only need to define the response parameters.

In the case of a RESTful Web service, the request message parameters are not yet displayed. You need to enter these yourself by choosing Add New Request Mapping.
To configure the parameters for the response message, choose the Response Message Configuration tab.

The response variables are displayed automatically. You can check them and supplement them. In the case of a RESTful Web service, the request message parameters are not yet displayed. You need to enter these yourself by choosing Add New Response Mapping.

(See also: Response Message Configuration Tab (OData and WS) and Response Message Configuration Tab (RESTful).)
On the Request Message Configuration and Response Message Configuration tabs, you can import structured data types as well as array and enumeration data types from SOAP Web services and OData services into the PCo data type repository. Choose the Import Data Types into Data Type Repository button to start the import. (See also: Import Data Types into the Data Type Repository.)

As soon as the new data types of the Web service are created in the PCo data type repository, you can define input and output variables at root node level of the Web service data structure.

The advantage of this is that you only have to enter a single input variable (request configuration) or output variable (response configuration). In this case, you only have to enter a single input or output variable respectively in order to transfer complex and deeply nested data objects.

If you choose Select Data Type, you are taken from the request or response message configuration to the PCo data type repository, where you can select the relevant data type that you imported previously. (See also: Select Data Type (Selection Dialog).)
All technical data for the selected operation is displayed on the Advanced Configuration tab. (See also: Advanced Configuration Tab.)
To be able to test the configuration of the service operation, choose . (See also: Test Configuration.)

Next Steps

Example: Create a Universal Web Service Destination System (OData)