Common:Web Service Configuration

1. In the Web Service Configuration form, configure the connection:
   • Basic Parameters:

   • Title - Required. Give the service a name. (Displays in the Name column of the Services list.)
   • Operation

     Required for a SOAP service. Not present for REST.

     Choose one of the operations defined in the WSDL file.

   • Version - Required. Enter text to identify the service version
   • Pipeline Service

     Check this box for a service that provides values for use in other web services.

     Any outputs from it that are made available for mapping can be used as inputs to other web services.

     Use it, for example, for APIs that be accessed only after logging in. You create a service that logs in and retrieves the cookie value or other access key required for subsequent requests. (That "two-step service chain" will be described in more detail, shortly.)

   • Service Parameters:

   • URL - Optional for SOAP (used to point to a destination other than one specified by the WSDL). Required for REST.
   • Use Basic Auth - Check this box when the destination URL requires a username and password to be included in the standard http header.

   • Username - Optional. Username required to use the service, when needed
   • Password - Optional. Password required to use the service, when needed

   • Use a Pipeline Service - Check this box when the service request requires information from a prior service. (For example, a session ID or other access key.)

     Select a pipeline Web Service defined earlier for use in a two-step service chain.

   • TTL - Optional. The "Time to Live", in milliseconds.

     The amount of time the platform waits before abandoning a request.