Business Entity Services Guide

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SOAP Requests and Responses

Use the SOAP XML message format to send requests through a SOAP client to the business entity service and to receive responses from the business entity service to the client. The SOAP request and response format is the same.

A SOAP message contains the following elements:

Envelope: Defines the start and the end of the message.
Header: Optional. Contains additional attributes, such as authentication details for processing the message. If the Header element is present, it must be the first child element of the Envelope element.
Body: Contains the XML data that the client or the web service processes.

A SOAP message has the following format:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<env:Envelope  xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" >

<env:Header>
</env:Header>

<env:Body>
</env:Body>

</env:Envelope>

A SOAP request has the following format:

POST /<host>:<port>/<context>/<database ID> HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<env:Envelope  xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" >

<env:Header>
</env:Header>

<env:Body>
</env:Body>

</env:Envelope>

A SOAP response has the following format:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<env:Envelope  xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" >

<env:Header>
</env:Header>

<env:Body>
</env:Body>

</env:Envelope>

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