how to send attachment using WSDL(http://servername:port/soap/services/[servicename]?wsdl)

[Manish aggarwal]

Hi ALL,

In LiveCycle 8.2.1 , i had created a workflow to convert a document to
PDF and storing it to some location on the server itself( by using
writedata operation).

same process works fine for watch folder end point( to confirm that
there is no errors in workflow)

Now, i had one input type variable inDoc(as Document)

i want to send the attached document in PDF file through WSDL to the
LiveCycle server by creating Data Connection in Designer (http://
servername:port/soap/services/[servicename]?wsdl).

Now i had attach the document( .txt for example) by following command
in button's click event:

form1.#subform[0].Button1[0]::click - (JavaScript, client)

var myDoc= event.target;
myDoc.importDataObject("file");

in data connection i see four text fields for input document
( contentType,BinaryData,attachmentID,remoteURL) dragged only
contentType and BinaryData TextFields on the page.

also dragged the invoke button (invokeBtn) which is now in invisible
mode.

i used the following script to retrive the data form the attachment
and try to send it to livecycle input variable(indoc).

form1.#subform[0].Button1[1]::click - (JavaScript, client)

var myDoc= event.target;
var con = myDoc.getDataObjectContents("file");
var cFile = util.stringFromStream(con , "utf-8");
// assigning data to textfield dragged form data connection
binaryData.rawValue=cFile;

invokeBtn.execEvent("click");

Before excuting the above command i had supplied value for contentType
as well to 'application/msword'.

Now i went back to the workbench and saw (in recordings) that document
had been received from the pdf file as mentioned above.
However, as you can noticed that i had converted the binary data to
simple string before sending it to server, so the characters in the
document are altogether diffrent( as it would be treating it a binary
data and converting them again to some different format)
i did so as i was unable to send the binary stream directly using
binaryData(since its a textfield and we can't assign binary data to
it.)

However, i'm getting the following error:

2009-12-27 22:11:37,043 INFO [org.apache.axis.EXCEPTIONS] AxisFault:
AxisFault
faultCode: {http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/}
Server.userException
faultSubcode:
faultString: ALC-DSC-000-000: com.adobe.idp.dsc.DSCRuntimeException:
Internal error.
faultActor:
faultNode:
faultDetail:
{http://xml.apache.org/axis/}stackTrace:ALC-DSC-000-000:
com.adobe.idp.dsc.DSCRuntimeException: Internal error.
at
com.adobe.idp.workflow.dsc.invoker.WorkflowDSCInvoker.transientInvoke
(WorkflowDSCInvoker.java:367)
at com.adobe.idp.workflow.dsc.invoker.WorkflowDSCInvoker.invoke
(WorkflowDSCInvoker.java:157)
at
com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.InvocationInterceptor.intercept
(InvocationInterceptor.java:140)
at
com.adobe.idp.dsc.interceptor.impl.RequestInterceptorChainImpl.proceed
(RequestInterceptorChainImpl.java:60)
at com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.interceptor.TransactionInterceptor
$1.doInTransaction(TransactionInterceptor.java:74)
at
com.adobe.idp.dsc.transaction.impl.ejb.adapter.EjbTransactionCMTAdapterBean.execute
(EjbTransactionCMTAdapterBean.java:342)

Kindly suggest me on it as i had to send the attachment from the PDF
file as an input variable using LiveCycle WSDL.

------------------------Below is the second method of achieving the
same------------
I had found another way of achieving the above where I'm only using
the javascript(i.e. No Data connection wizard).

form1.#subform[0].Button1[0]::click – (JavaScript, client)

var myDoc= event.target;
myDoc.importDataObject(”file”);

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form1.#subform[0].Button1[0]::click - (JavaScript, client)
///
var myDoc= event.target;
var con = myDoc.getDataObjectContents("file");
var myProxy = SOAP.connect("http://10.10.129.176:8080/soap/services/
Webservices?wsdl");
var myObject = {soapType: "SOAP-ENC:base64" ,soapAttachment:
true,soapValue: con};
var result = myProxy.invoke({doc:myObject});
console.println("Result is " + result);
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"doc" refer to the variable used in workbench an a input variable of
type document.
"invoke" is a method in it.
However if try to do the same for input type variables (xsd:int) or
(xsd:string) by making any other services then it works fine.

However, when i try to attach the document then i get the following
error in acrobat debugger:
SOAPError: No such operation 'invoke'
SOAP.request:1:XFA:form1[0]:#subform[0]:Button1[0]:click

above error comes if change the type from soapType: "SOAP-ENC:base64"
to "impl:BLOB"

Further i removed soapAttachment: true from myObject and i got the
following error:

SOAPError: The input BLOB object should have attachmentID, remoteURL,
or binaryData field specified.
SOAP.request:1:XFA:form1[0]:#subform[0]:Button1[0]:click

which gives me a sense that almost everything here is fine but
somewhere something is missing.

Kindly suggest what I'm missing in both the methods.

Regards,
Manish