Hi Thilo, thanks for the reply - please note this approach should not be followed as it directly accesses v9 Internal ECL code which will not be supported. There will be a seperate web service to allow v7 ECL developers to continue to use their code with a v9 system.
Our forthcoming SDK - will include samples to explain how this is possible.
To answer the original question regarding web services the following should help. The documentation will contain other samples as well, but hopefully this will get you started.
Add a service reference EclWSSvc to the project, pointing at http://localhost/ECL.WS/Service.svc
A Metastorm Client should then declare a ServiceClient object, and ServiceSessionState The client and server configurations contain information about the service binding and location
In your client app.config suggest increasing default sizes for the following
maxBufferSize ="41943040"
maxReceivedMessageSize ="41943040"
maxStringContentLength ="41943040"
maxArrayLength ="41943040"
private EclWSSvc.ServiceClient eclWS;
private EclWSSvc.ServiceSessionState eclServiceSession = null;
eclWS = new Metastorm.ECL.WSClient.EclWSSvc.ServiceClient();
Provide authentication detail ... eg.
FormField[] loginData = new FormField[] {
new TextField() { Name = "username", Value = "some username", Culture = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.ToString() },
new TextField() { Name = "password", Value = PasswordEncrypt("some password"), Culture = CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.ToString() }
};
eclServiceSession = this.eclWS.Login("WEB;", 0, "", loginData);
if (eclWS.IsLoggedIn(eclServiceSession))
{
// Can carry out authenticated operations here...
}
You need to encrypt the password, I believe the other hyperlink has an example of this. This will be documented & available in the sample clients that come with the SDK.
The SDK client side interfaces will do this encryption for you.
To work with a list do something like as follows (demonstrates how to obtain the first page of 10 blank forms, ordered by map name.
)
DataSet ds = new DataSet();
ListResult clientData = this.eclWS.GetList(eclServiceSession, ListContentsType.Blank, null, "eMapName", "", 1, 10);
string ClientDataOutput = clientData.Data;
System.IO.StringReader xmlSR = new System.IO.StringReader(ClientDataOutput);
ds.ReadXml(xmlSR, XmlReadMode.ReadSchema);
dataGridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables[0];
dataGridView1.Refresh;
You might then try and perform an action
DataRow alertRow = ds.Tables[0].Rows[0];
ActionResponse response = eclWS.StartAction(eclServiceSession, alertRow["eFolderID"] as string, alertRow["eMapName"] as string, "action name", false, null);
// User can refill, cancel, or submit action here...
And then logout...
eclWS.Logout(eclServiceSession);
Hope this helps
Rich
