Manual Setup of Logical Port in SOAMANAGER

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Manual Setup of Logical Port

 

Process for consuming a web service is to generate a
consumer proxy, create a logical port and call the generated consumer proxy in
a program. Logical port is created using transaction SOAMANAGER. Logical port
can be created using the web service WSDL URL, or using a WSDL file, or by
Manual Configuration. Using the WSDL is the preferred approach, but if for some
reason you are having trouble, this blog documents the process of using manual
configuration options for creating a logical port.

    Background

You are a SAP Developer and have been asked to consume a web
service that the .NET team in your organization has created. The .NET team
informs you that the URL for the web service is “https://intranet.abc.com/ws/ws.asmx”.
The web service doesn’t require a userid / password for access. You have
successfully generated a consumer proxy. You are familiar with transaction
SOAMANAGER and go through the steps to create a logical port. You get the error
“Error:
HTTP: Error in interface for management of HTTP destinations”. You try to use
the URL using file access option and still no success. You decide to try the
Manual Configuration option.

This blog assumes familiarity with the SOAMANAGER
transaction. If not, please review SAP help and lots of other blogs on SDN. I
have added some of the them in the reference section below.

 

Solution – Creating a Logical Port using Manual Configuration

 

Please follow the basic steps listed here to start the
process of creating a logical port using manual configuration:

 

1. Execute transaction SOAMANAGER,


2. select tab “Application and Scenario  Communication”.


3. Select link “Single      Service Administration”.


4. Select your consumer proxy      and click on apply selection.


5. Click on the button Create     Logical port, input a technical name and description.


6. Select the Manual     Configuration radio button and select Next

Overview

The logical port maintenance transaction has five tabs. For
manual configuration, you are required to configure fields in the three tabs
shown in Figure 1 below.

Messaging Tab

The only field that needs to be changed is Message ID
Protocol. Since the web service doesn’t require Userid / password, the field
should be set to “Suppress ID Transfer”.

 

1. Figure 1: Over view screen and Messaging tab settings






4. 
   

   Transport Settings Tab

   
   












10. This tab is used to specify the location of the web service
    and the transfer protocol (HTTP or HTTPS). The fields highlighted in Figure 2
    below need to be configured.






13.  


14. Figure 2: Transport Settings
    tab












20. 
    

    Operation Specific Tab

    
    












26. This tab links the operations of the web service to its
    action. To complete this task, you will need to look at the WSDL of the web
    service. Search for <soap action..> tag.






29.  


30. Figure 3: Operation Specific tab settings












36. Open the WSDL and look for soapAction for each operation of
    the operation. You will see operation names automatically populated on the
    left. Select each operation and populate the SOAP Action field on the right
    with the value from the WSDL.

 

Example WSDL

 

 

<wsdl:operation
name="GetCityForecastByZIP">

 

<soap:operation soapAction="http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/GetCityForecastByZIP" style="document" />

 

• So for the example WSDL above, operation "GetCityForecastByZIP"
  should get the SOAP action value of "http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/GetCityForecastByZIP"






• Once you have assigned SOAP action for all the operations
  click Save to activate the Logical Port binding. You should be able to test
  your consumer proxy now using the newly created port.

 

 

h2. Conclusion

 

Being able to configure a Logical port using manual configuration can help you keep making progress in your development effort, while the basis team resolves HTTP error in the URL based configuration process.

h1. References:

SOAMANAGER help: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/b0/787748cf3a4200bb1ba32a62aa8519/frameset.htm

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Consuming web service in ABAP  - See my earlier blog Consuming Webservices with  tag in WSDL using ABAP on consuming web services with tag if you are having trouble with consumer proxy. Other links -  Consuming Services with ABAP,  http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/47/3a989cbcef2f35e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm

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XML to ABAP and ABAP to XML Transformation -  http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/en/e3/7d4719ca581441b6841f1054ff1326/frameset.htm

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  1. Other folks with HTTP error - [Error in Logical Port Creation | Error in Logical Port Creation]
  
  
  2. Thanks to Todd Miller and Ali Mohammed in helping me find the right combination of settings to make this work.