Calling a SOAP webservice from TSQL stored procedure

Question

I am trying to build a stored procedure in TSQL to call a webservice. I\'ve done this before in Oracle, but it seems like it\'s not so easy in MSSQL. There are of course man

Answer 1

In the past I have used the following method, it may not be the best method these days but it has worked successfully for me :

DECLARE @obj int,
        @url VarChar(MAX),
        @response VarChar(MAX),
        @requestHeader VarChar(MAX),
        @requestBody VarChar(MAX)

SET @url = 'http://....'

SET @requestBody = '
                     
                      
                       ...
                      
                     '

EXEC sp_OACreate 'MSXML2.ServerXMLHttp', @obj OUT
EXEC sp_OAMethod @obj, 'Open', NULL, 'GET', @url, false
EXEC sp_OAMethod @obj, 'setRequestHeader', NULL, 'Content-Type', 'text/xml;charset=UTF-8'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @obj, 'setRequestHeader', NULL, 'SOAPAction', 'POST'
EXEC sp_OAMethod @obj, 'setRequestHeader', NULL, 'Content-Length', LEN(@requestBody)
EXEC sp_OAMethod @obj, 'send', NULL, @requestBody
EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @obj, 'responseText', @response OUT


SELECT @response [RESPONSE]

EXEC sp_OADestroy @obj

I have used this to call a webservice which produces a report and emails it within the method.