Web Service

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Overview: Data Architect 2013 can retrieve data from Web services. This can be achieved using the Web Service command that describes a Web service request-response operation. When selecting a Web service response to be used as a data source, a dialog box is displayed, as presented below.

 

This is an example of the syntax for a WSDL URL and the methods that become available after selecting the Collect button.

 

WebserviceDialogBox

 

In the example below, the free public Web service http://www.webservicex.net/country.asmx is used to output all the country names:

 

webservice1

 

Note:

•The above example is part of the WebServiceSample.dax document, located in the Samples/Job Samples folder.