Chapter 8 Building Web Services

Web operation properties

You can modify an object's properties from its property sheet. To open a web operation property sheet, double-click its Browser entry in the Operations folder beneath the parent web service. The following sections detail the property sheet tabs that contain the properties most commonly entered for web operations.

The General tab contains the following properties:

Property Description
Name Name of the web operation. In URIs, it comes after the name of the web service followed by a slash. It can neither start with a slash nor contain two consecutive slashes
Code Code of the web operation
Comment Descriptive label for the web operation
Stereotype Sub-classification used to extend the semantics of an object without changing its structure; it can be predefined or user-defined
Web Service Code of the web service containing the web operation. You can click the Properties tool (beside the web Service box) to display the web service property sheet
Owner [ASE 15 only] Specifies the owner of the operation.
Operation Type [IBM DB2 only] Specifies the type of operation. You can choose from the following:

  • call - invokes a stored procedure with parameters and result columns for the web operation
  • query - retrieves relational data using the SQL select statement in the Implementation tab
  • retrieveXML - retrieves an XML document from relational data. The mapping of relational data to XML data is defined by a DAD file with SQL or RDB as MappingType
  • storeXML - stores an XML document as relational data. The mapping of XML data to relational data is defined by a DAD file, with RDB as MappingType
  • update - executes the SQL update statement with optional parameters. Parameters can be created from the Parameters tab in the web operation property sheet

 

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