ping webservice from abap

[Former Member]

Hi Guru's,

let me know how do we go along with pinging a webservice from ABAP.I have a requirement where in i have to ping and check weather the webservice exists or not. if it exits i have to proceed with the logic or else raise and exception.

here iam not able to find how ro ping and check weather the webservice is avilable or not.

thanks in advance,

babu

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

I don't see a way of "pinging" a web service.

If you need to know if it is available, I think you have to call it.

Maybe you can design a test case that would be considered as a "ping" ?

Regards,

Olivier

[Former Member]

the best ping is a valid service call with a definitive negativ outcome, i.e. a purchase order for a non-existent product number or a material query for a non-existent material, etc...

this way you ping the service at all possible levels, including networks, proxies and firewalls, webserver availability, soap runtime availability, application availability(!).

anton