Web Service Push for Inbound Fax

I need to create a .NET ASP.NET web service for inbound faxes to be pushed to. When doing so, how descriptive does the service have to be? Can the WSDL simply accept any XML object values or does it actually have to have the entire JobDocumentTransmit schema defined in it? Does the SOAP Action have to match a specific value or can it be whatever I want it to be?

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thuneke

You can build a webserrvice that will accept anything, and then examine the received message later.

The WSDL specifies what we will be sending. You would want to use it to be sure you are interperting the result correctly, but you don't have to build the webservice on it if you want to arrange your processing differently. Your application does need to make sure it is interpreting the received XML in a way that properly parses legitimate XML that complies with the schema. This should be done with a real XML parser and not rely on textual features.

The WSDL also specifies the soapAction that will be put in the HTTP header. Some systems will inspect that, others won't care, so it is up to your application whether to check it.

acfalcon

Do you require that the soapAction be something specific? I can make it whatever; so if it is a required value I can do that, otherwise, I am going to make it something more specific to our transmissions system. Thanks.

skamens

Remember that in this case our system will be pushing the transmission to you, rather than the other way around.

The system uses a soapAction of "JobDocumentTransmit" for this particular request.

acfalcon

Understood, that's why I asked that. I wanted to make sure I defined the soapAction as exactly what you needed it to be. Thanks.

acfalcon

Another quick question about the Web Service Push. Will there be only one job per pushed transmission? I see that the JobDocuments element allows for multiple occurrences, but is that used during the push. My preference would be to be one job per transmission. Thanks!

thuneke

There is only one job per push. That job may have multiple documents though, sucn as the body and attachments. So you will need to process all elements.