WebService Action

The <action-ws> can be used to call a SOAP web services. This action is generally used as a provider action to the <action-import>.

<action-ws name="ws.1" service="http://localhost/ws/soap/SomeService.asmx">
  <action name="SoapServiceName" template="data/ws/ws-login.tmpl" engine="groovy"/>
</action-ws>

Table 1. Attributes
Name	Description
name	name of the action
service	service url or reference to another `action-ws` with service is set to some url. In that case, the referenced action is called prior to this one. This allows to perform some initial actions like `login`.
connect-timeout	connection timeout in seconds (default 60 seconds)
read-timeout	read timeout in seconds (default 300 seconds).

More than one SOAP action can be called in sequence. The result is returned as a collection string values returned by each action respectively.

The SOAP actions can be specified using:

<action> - specify a soap action to call
- name - name of the SOAP action
- template - a template to transform the result to another format
- engine - template engine (groovy, ST)