topic Re: SOAP Connector to Qlik Sense in Connectivity & Data Prep

SOAP Connector to Qlik Sense

madhava4 — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:13:23 GMT

Hi,

We are trying to connect to a SOAP web service to extract data using Qlik Sense Desktop. Is there a connector available in Qlik Sense. Please let us know if any one did this before.

Note: We were able to get data using a REST web service with inbuilt REST connector for Qlik Sense.

Thanks,

Madhav

Re: SOAP Connector to Qlik Sense

petter — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 08:27:12 GMT

I am pretty sure that the Qlik REST connector can be used for many SOAP web services as well. Others - please correct me if I am wrong since I am no expert on SOAP...

The Qlik REST connector provides you with some basics to do HTTP communication using GET and POST requests. So it is rather low-level compared to other types of Qlik connectors.

Re: SOAP Connector to Qlik Sense

BalaBhaskar_Qlik — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 12:49:47 GMT

May be this:

Call a web service via SOAP, HTTP Get or HTTP Post

Re: SOAP Connector to Qlik Sense

petter — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:28:04 GMT

The solution proposed in the document you refer to will only work with QlikView and it is based on using Macros with VBScript so this will not work with Qlik Sense...

Re: SOAP Connector to Qlik Sense

rzenere_avvale — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 11:17:25 GMT

Hi Madhava,

Petter here is right, you can use the REST connector to do a SOAP call.

Specifically, you need to generate the XML of your request and then use it as your Request Body in your REST connection. Additional parameters could be needed, depending on your call

I believe that somewhere there is a post that explains this quite good, but I have not been able to find it

I would suggest using Fiddler or any other similar software to trace the request you do with the REST connector, as it is not so easy to debug.

Hope this helps,

Riccardo