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ToRecord() limits?: For a number of reasons (awkward webservices th
ryanh
over 10 years ago
ToRecord() limits?:
For a number of reasons (awkward webservices that can't be changed by us, perceived performance issues with XPathSnippet on large record sets, etc.) I am parsing some webservice calls using the ToRecord() function in 7.6.
Question 1) If the external webservices we call start adding new/extra keys to the xml that weren't there when our CDT was designed will the ToRecord() still work when converting the new XML structure (with extra keys) to our CDT?
Question 2) One of the reasons to use ToRecord instead of XPathSnippet was because we may receive as many as 200 deeply nested/complex structures in 1 webservice call and need to parse this. We were worried that a) coding difficulty b) performance might be an issue when using the XPathSnippet versus ToRecord. Is this a fair assumption? We can't use the existing Appian built smart services partly because of 'includes' in the wsdl....
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Mike Cichy
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over 10 years ago
Unless you update the Call Web Service nodes making the WS calls, nothing will get changed. You would have to reconfigure the node to utilize the newest structures.
Also, another option that may be on the table is hosting an "Appian-friendly" WSDL on the Appian web server. I think it is worth looking into, you could then skip any conversion entirely. Have a look at this guide
forum.appian.com/.../Advanced_Web_Service_Configuration.html
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Mike Cichy
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over 10 years ago
Unless you update the Call Web Service nodes making the WS calls, nothing will get changed. You would have to reconfigure the node to utilize the newest structures.
Also, another option that may be on the table is hosting an "Appian-friendly" WSDL on the Appian web server. I think it is worth looking into, you could then skip any conversion entirely. Have a look at this guide
forum.appian.com/.../Advanced_Web_Service_Configuration.html
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