Dynamic address in the SOAP receiver adapter of HANA Cloud Platform, Integration Services

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In most HANA Cloud Platform, Integration Services adapters it is possible to use dynamic parameters. For example, the name of the file in the SFTP adapter can be set by using the parameter CamelFileName and the URL in the HTTP adapter can be set by using CamelHTTPUri. However, with the SOAP adapter, for which we needed it in one of our iFlows, this was not possible.

Please consider the following example. We have an interface querying data on SalesForce. To be able to connect to SalesForce a session id and a URL have to be retrieved first by using a SOAP call to a login server with a fixed URL (e.g. https://login.salesforce.com/services/Soap/u/36.0).

The SOAP call returns a server URL and a session id. The server URL contains the actual system on which the user is allowed to log on and on which the query can be executed.
The returned session id is used for authentication:



Both the session id and the URL are dynamic values. For the session id this was no problem since it is set in the envelope using a groovy script, but the URL could not be set dynamically in the SOAP adapter.

We tried putting the URL in a header parameter using a content modifier and placing the parameter in the address of the SOAP adapter but that resulted in the following error:



The only other entry that worked, without using an address in the form of https://example, was an external parameter. This did not solve our problem, since external parameters can also not be set dynamically.

We have discussed this with SAP and they have given us a solution:

The SOAP adapter address can be overwritten by using the header parameter CamelDestinationOverrideUrl.

In the iFlow we now fill this parameter with the server URL that was received from the SalesForce login server (please note that in this case it is filled from a globale variable since we have a separate iFlow that calls the login server to get the server URL and the session id):



It is still necessary to put an address in the SOAP adapter, but that can be anything (e.g. https://salesforce) since it is overwritten by the value of CamelDestinationOverrideUrl.

We hope this will help you as much as it did us.

Frank Bakermans, YourIntegration

Martin Jaspers, Q for IT BV