Web Service Consumer - Example 1

The following example shows how to transform a variable value into XML and pass that value to Anypoint Connector for Web Service Consumer (Web Service Consumer Connector), which subsequently consumes a web service:

Web Service Consumer Example Flow in Studio Canvas

Create the Mule App in Anypoint Studio

To create the flow in Anypoint Studio:

In the Mule Palette view, select Core > Scheduler.
Drag the Scheduler component to the Studio canvas.
The Scheduler component initiates a flow when a time-based condition is met.
Set the Display Name field to Scheduler.
Set Scheduling Strategy to Fixed Frequency, Frequency to 1000, Start delay to 0 and Time unit to MILLISECONDS (Default).

In Studio, the Scheduler configuration looks like this:

Figure 1. Scheduler Configuration

Drag a Set Variable component onto the canvas, to the right of the Scheduler component.
The Set Variable component creates the variable to be transformed into XML later in the flow.
Set the Display Name field to Set Variable.
Set Name to variableSample and Value to test.

In Studio, the Set Variable configuration looks like this:

Figure 2. Set Variable Configuration

Drag a Transform Message component onto the canvas, to the right of the Set Variable component.
The Transform Message component transforms the variable value into XML.
In the Output field of the Transform Message component configuration, set a DataWeave expression that:
- Transforms the variable value output to application/xml.
- Defines the name of the web service operation that the Web Service Consumer Connector aims to invoke by attachOperation.

DataWeave Expression

%dw 2.0
output application/xml
ns con http://service.soap.service.mule.org/
---
con#attachOperation: {
   text: vars.variableSample
}

In Studio, the Transform Message configuration looks like this:

Figure 3. Transform Message Configuration

Drag the Consume operation onto the canvas, to the right of the Transform Message component.
Set the Display Name field to Consume.
Set Operation to attachOperation and the Body message to payload.
In the Message Customization section of the Advanced tab, enable the option Force XML Prolog into body to append the XML prolog to the content of the envelope’s body XML.

In Studio, the Consume operation configuration looks like this:

Figure 4. Consume Operation Configuration

In Studio, the XML Prolog configuration looks like this:

Figure 5. Configure XML Prolog into Body

On the General tab, click the plus sign (+) next to the Connector configuration field to access the Global Element Properties configuration.
On the Connection section of the General tab, configure the following parameters:
- WSDL location
  The remote or local WSDL file URL
- Service
  The service name
- Port
  The port name
- Address
  The address of the web server to dispatch requests but if the Service and Port parameters don’t auto-populate the web server address, you must manually provide the correct Address.
Click OK.

In Studio, the Global Element Properties configuration looks like this:

Figure 6. Web Service Consumer Configuration

Save your changes in Studio.
Deploy the application.

XML for Consuming a Web Service

Paste this code into the Studio XML editor to quickly load the flow for this example into your Mule app:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<mule xmlns:ee="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/core" xmlns:wsc="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/wsc"
	xmlns="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core"
	xmlns:doc="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/documentation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/core/current/mule.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/wsc http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/wsc/current/mule-wsc.xsd
http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/core http://www.mulesoft.org/schema/mule/ee/core/current/mule-ee.xsd">
	<wsc:config name="Web_Service_Consumer_Config">
		<wsc:connection wsdlLocation="api/attach-demo.wsdl" service="AttachDemo" port="AttachDemoSOAP" address="http://localhost:8085/AttachDemo/AttachDemoSOAP" />
	</wsc:config>
	<flow name="WSC-Example">
		<scheduler>
			<scheduling-strategy >
				<fixed-frequency />
			</scheduling-strategy>
		</scheduler>
		<set-variable value="test" variableName="variableSample"/>
		<ee:transform>
			<ee:message >
				<ee:set-payload ><![CDATA[ %dw 2.0
output application/xml
ns con http://service.soap.service.mule.org/
---
con#attachOperation: {
    text: vars.variableSample
}]]></ee:set-payload>
			</ee:message>
		</ee:transform>
		<wsc:consume config-ref="Web_Service_Consumer_Config" operation="attachOperation">
			<wsc:message-customizations forceXMLProlog="true"/>
		</wsc:consume>
	</flow>
</mule>