How to call a SOAP service with the Qlik Sense REST connector?

[Sonja_Bauernfeind]

How can you call a SOAP service with the Qlik Sense REST connector?

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Environments:

• Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows 

Resolution:

To use the REST connector in Qlik Sense to connect to a SOAP webservice, make a SOAP request like you would for any other SOAP webservice:

1. Request must be a POST request
2. Request must include the Content-Type: text/xml header
3. Request should include the correctly-formatted XML body (consult your webservice's documentation on how to build the request body, and/or read about XML in general)

There isn't any other special consideration for the Qlik Sense REST connector outside the above. When testing a connection to a SOAP service, we recommend:

1. Test your request in Postman
2. If (1) is successful, then test in the REST connector

If step #2 fails, then please provide to Support your full request information from Step 1 and Step 2 above.

For example, here is an example request at soapclient.com:

Method:

POST

URL:

http://www.soapclient.com/xml/soapresponder.wsdl

Headers:

Content-Type: text/xml

Body:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:tns="http://www.SoapClient.com/xml/SoapResponder.wsdl"
xmlns:xsd1="http://www.SoapClient.com/xml/SoapResponder.xsd"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
    <SOAP-ENV:Body>
        <mns:Method1 xmlns:mns="http://www.SoapClient.com/xml/SoapResponder.xsd" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
            <mns:bstrParam1>apple</mns:bstrParam1>
            <mns:bstrParam2>orange</mns:bstrParam2>
        </mns:Method1>
    </SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Request Headers and Response Body in Postman:

 

Request Body in Postman:

 

Request via the Qlik Sense REST Connector: