what is the use of soap action?

[ravi_reddy1]

Hi experts,

what is the functionality of soap action in receiver soap adapter?

Thanks & Regards

E.Ravi Chandra Reddy

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Ravi,

The SOAP action tells which method to call in the web service. The web service which is getting called might be serving differnet functionalities. This can checked by looking the the different operations in the corresponding WSDL. So, the relevant operation is to be mentioned in the SOAP action in the SOAP receiver adapter.

Regards,

Akshay

[Former Member]

Hi Ravi,

This “SOAP action” tells the web service to perform a particular action. It will call the related method in the WSDL and perform that action and that WSDL may contain different functionalities/Methods and the action we will give in the channel will call the particular method

I have attched the screen of a WSDl containing different methods  (WSMethods)

Channel for more reference

[former_member182455]

Hi venkat,

please refer the below link and check the SOAP receiver adapter section point 1 and 5

http://scn.sap.com/community/pi-and-soa-middleware/blog/2008/01/08/troubleshooting--rfc-and-soap-sce...

Regards

srinivas

[Former Member]

Hi Srinu,

What do you want to say ? Did i said any thing wrong in my previous post ?

Regards

Venkat

[Former Member]

Hi,

We use SOAP action in receiver SOAP communication channel when more than one operations(Methods) are there in WSDL.

To check the number of operations in WSDL ,either import the WSDL to PI server as an external definition and check for no. of operations (or) open WSDL in edit plus and check for no. of operations.

We provide SOAP action to tell which operation that we want to invoke.

Regards

Venkat

[Muniyappan]

Hi,

check Grzegorz Glowacki reply in the below thread.

Regards,

Muni.