AX 2009 consuming services

[ist]

Hello guys,

I am going to use InventService to interact with AX. In the Virtual directory I can see InventService.svc and the coresponding schema. How can I generate wsdl file that can be used as an endpoint?

10x

[EVGL]

A sustainable way to consume services in AX is to implement a [C# assembly] wrapper and call it from AX:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/hh500185.aspx


But I'm afraid you are talking of something else: providing AX logic as a service. Since when is AX2009 able to expose services?

[ist]

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[Vadik]

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Since when is AX2009 able to expose services?

Since the beginning, I think
Dynamics AX 2009 - Consume Web Services
ist, are you sure you require a WSDL file ? What for ? Why don't you add a service URL as a Service reference to your solution (in case you are using Visual Studio, can't tell for other IDEs) ?
P.S. To get the service's WSDL, just 'Browse' the .svc file from IIS Manager console

[ist]

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=P.S. To get the service's WSDL, just 'Browse' the .svc file from IIS Manager console

I have no web experience and in particular with IIS,
Our customer is going to consume AX service, so I have deployed standard AX AIF Services following the AX manual for that purpose. The customer wants an endpoints for service invocation, something like that:

http://myserver/someservice/endpoint1 - for service invocation
http://myserver/someservice/endpoint1?wsdl - for WSDL

p.s. I found some examples how AX services to be consumed using Visual Studio.Unfortunately the customer doesn't want to use Visual Studio!

Regards,


Regards,

[Maximin]

It is possible to consume AX service from any environment, capable of interfacing with SOAP services (i.e. MS WCF service is kind of that).
For example, PHP with it's standard library.
I can provide you an example in PHP, if you'd interested, but at MSK evening.

[ist]

Thanks, please provide me with a php example.
Our customer use Java, but obviously we can't provide Java solution!
10x

[Maximin]

There's an example to a simple AX service client, using two access methods of trivial AX service:
- getOrder with one string argument - orderId, returning some set of orderIds;
- setCost with multiple argumens - some of the values of order, that must be set.

All of this is operating under some kind of WS_Security, so there's shown also a way to set appropriate header values. Althrough this is obviously not a complete example, as complying with real WS_Security and SSL needs much more actions. I just left there this setting of headers as some piece of useful code.

You can find a way more sophisticated example at http://www.sis.utoronto.ca/web_servi...lient.php.html.

Be sure, that you have uncommented in your php.ini php_soap.dll extension prior to start playing with PHP as SOAP service client.

<?php 

$login = "login";
$password = "password";
class argumentObject
{
	public $number = "";
	public $number_string = "";
	public $cost = 0.0;
	public $discount = 0.0;
	public $discount2 = 0.0;
	public $status = "";
}
try {
	$cl = new SoapClient('YOUR_URL_TO_WSDL');
	$cl->__setSoapHeaders(array(new SoapHeader('namespace_name', 'security_token', array($login, $password), 1)));
	$result = $cl->getOrder("Some_order_id");
	print($result->orders[0]->number);
	$placementArray = array();
	$argumentObject = new argumentObject();
	$argumentObject->number=$result->orders[0]->number;
	$argumentObject->number_string=$result->orders[0]->number_string;
	$argumentObject->cost=0;
	$argumentObject->status="Status_name";
	$argumentArray[0]=$placement;	
	$cl->setCost($argumentArray);

} catch (SoapFault $fault) {
    print("Fault string: " . $fault->faultstring . "\n");
    print("Fault code: " . $fault->detail->WebServiceException->code . "\n");
}

?>