Testing DRM Webservice API using SoapUI

Oracle Data Relationship Manager ships with a robust webservice API which can be used to develop customised screens and workflows uisng Java. However, one of the first steps before embarking on that process is to deploy the DRM Webservice API onto Oracle Weblogic application server. Oracle have provided a very good tutorial on how to deploy webservice. You can find it here. If you are following this tutorial to deploy the webservice API you can ignore the part about setting up Oracle Internet Directory. You can simply use the native users for security purposes.

Next step is to actually test the deployed webservice. While it is perfectly ok to test it on the browswer using enterprise manager, I found that the interface is not particulary user-friendly. For one, the list of API calls is not displayed in alphabetical order, and there is no option to store credentials for reuse. Everytime you come to EM to test an API you have to go through the chore of searching for the required API from the dropdown list and then going into each of the fields entering data and it gets quite tedious.

List of APIs when viewed from Oracle EM

You can see how the list of API methods is in no particular order

Thankfully, you could simplify this process by using SOAP UI. Before reading further, the authors assume that you have an installed copy of SoapUI and a deployed DRM Webservice ready for testing.

The very first step is to create a new project using the WSDL for DRM Webservice.

Create new project using DRM WSDL

Noice how the API calls are all listed in a neat alphabetical order.

List of webservice APIs

Select any request that you would like to test, and you will see the secuity credentials screen as below.

Enter security credentials into SOAP

Enter the credentials as per your user access settings.

Username and password

On the right hand side, you see the input and output screens for that particular API call.

Below is a scrennshot of the RAW XML payload without the server details embedded in it.

Raw XML Payload

Add the payload as per instructions in Oracle tutorial given at the beginning of this post. With the proper payload, the request screen should look as below.

XML Payload with server details

If everything goes well, the following screen with successful output should appear on the results window.

Successful output from the API calls

Using this approach you can test various API calls avaialble with DRM webservice.

On a side note, the latest version of DRM ships with builtin workflow, and the workflow tasks are available as APIs too. However, the WSDL is different for those API calls, and they are collectively called as “Governance APIs”.

If you have any questions or further assistance, please email us [email protected] or Rama Krishna, [email protected]

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  1. February 23, 2018

    […] 2) DRM Webservice has been successfully deployed, the right policy set applied to secure the application. Oracle have done a great job in describing how to do so here, although there are some steps which can be skipped for most purposes, according to my blog post here. […]

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