How to Call BIP SOAP Service in OIC

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This is a frequent requirement in OIC , sometime you need to call BIP SOAP service in OIC to do integrations.

The reasons can be

The Rest service of the business object is not available
You have a custom Requirement based on a custom data set

So here are the steps to call a BI publisher SOAP service.

Table of Contents

Test the BIP SOAP service in SOAP UI

Generate your ExternalReportWSSService url for your oracle fusion instance
Test your generated wsdl url in browser and make usre you see the wsdl data
launch SOAP UI and create a SOAP project
Add the generated wsdl to the soap project
configure authorization
Test the bip soap service
you wll get a result in binary form which is not readable like in image below

Sample SOAP Payload to call BIP report

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope" xmlns:pub="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/service/PublicReportService">
   <soap:Header/>
   <soap:Body>
      <pub:runReport>
         <pub:reportRequest>
            <pub:XDOPropertyList>
               <!--Zero or more repetitions:-->
               <pub:metaDataList>
                  <!--Optional:-->
                  <pub:name>?</pub:name>
                  <!--Optional:-->
                  <pub:value>?</pub:value>
               </pub:metaDataList>
            </pub:XDOPropertyList>
            <pub:attributeCalendar>?</pub:attributeCalendar>
            <pub:attributeFormat>xml</pub:attributeFormat>
            <pub:attributeLocale>?</pub:attributeLocale>
            <pub:attributeTemplate>?</pub:attributeTemplate>
            <pub:attributeTimezone>?</pub:attributeTimezone>
            <pub:attributeUILocale>?</pub:attributeUILocale>
            <pub:byPassCache>?</pub:byPassCache>
            <pub:dynamicDataSource>
               <pub:JDBCDataSource>
                  <pub:JDBCDriverClass>?</pub:JDBCDriverClass>
                  <pub:JDBCDriverType>?</pub:JDBCDriverType>
                  <pub:JDBCPassword>?</pub:JDBCPassword>
                  <pub:JDBCURL>?</pub:JDBCURL>
                  <pub:JDBCUserName>?</pub:JDBCUserName>
                  <pub:dataSourceName>?</pub:dataSourceName>
               </pub:JDBCDataSource>
               <pub:fileDataSource>
                  <pub:dynamicDataSourcePath>?</pub:dynamicDataSourcePath>
                  <pub:temporaryDataSource>?</pub:temporaryDataSource>
               </pub:fileDataSource>
            </pub:dynamicDataSource>
            <pub:flattenXML>?</pub:flattenXML>
            <pub:parameterNameValues>
               <!--Zero or more repetitions:-->
               <pub:item>
                  <pub:UIType>?</pub:UIType>
                  <pub:dataType>?</pub:dataType>
                  <pub:dateFormatString>?</pub:dateFormatString>
                  <pub:dateFrom>?</pub:dateFrom>
                  <pub:dateTo>?</pub:dateTo>
                  <pub:defaultValue>?</pub:defaultValue>
                  <pub:fieldSize>?</pub:fieldSize>
                  <pub:label>?</pub:label>
                  <pub:lovLabels>
                     <!--Zero or more repetitions:-->
                     <pub:item>?</pub:item>
                  </pub:lovLabels>
                  <pub:multiValuesAllowed>?</pub:multiValuesAllowed>
                  <pub:name>?</pub:name>
                  <pub:refreshParamOnChange>?</pub:refreshParamOnChange>
                  <pub:selectAll>?</pub:selectAll>
                  <pub:templateParam>?</pub:templateParam>
                  <pub:useNullForAll>?</pub:useNullForAll>
                  <pub:values>
                     <!--Zero or more repetitions:-->
                     <pub:item>?</pub:item>
                  </pub:values>
               </pub:item>
            </pub:parameterNameValues>
            <pub:reportAbsolutePath>Custom/PRJReport.xdo</pub:reportAbsolutePath>
            <pub:reportData>cid:1571104333176</pub:reportData>
            <pub:reportOutputPath></pub:reportOutputPath>
            <pub:reportRawData>?</pub:reportRawData>
            <pub:sizeOfDataChunkDownload>-1</pub:sizeOfDataChunkDownload>
         </pub:reportRequest>
         <pub:appParams>?</pub:appParams>
      </pub:runReport>
   </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

In OIC

Create a SOAP connection in OIC using the BIP wsdl url
Configure security authentication
Test and save the connection
Create a App driven on Scheduled orchestation based on your requirement
drag the SOAP connection into OIC process
Do the mapping as per the Soap payload above.

basically you need to map 3 fields

<pub:attributeFormat>xml</pub:attributeFormat>
Set this value as xml

<pub:reportAbsolutePath>Custom/PRJReport.xdo</pub:reportAbsolutePath>

Set absolute path as per the folder structure including the xdo file name

<pub:sizeOfDataChunkDownload>-1</pub:sizeOfDataChunkDownload>

Set this as -1

Reading Report Bytes

After doing the configuration to call bip soap service you will get a response in report bytes which is not readable.

You need to decode using the bas64 decode function.

IF the response ofreport bytes is like multi row and you want to read the file, the approach is to write the response in a stage file using opaque schema and then read the stage file with the selected schema of the format required.

Map reportbytes to Opaque element in stage file write activity