Web service post with void function calls

[SWSDEV]

I thought I'd share, I don't know if this was intentional or not, but as I was having difficulting using the web service component (I was getting an error regarding no root element in the xml) I discovered that you can't call a function that has a void return.

Since I wasn't trying to read any data back from the web service, I couldn't figure out why I was getting an error regarding the return data.

Once I simply had the webservice return "OK" or "ERROR", then the IVR didn't complain about it any more.

This was a SOAP based web service.

 

[VAD_Support]

Thanks for your feedback, maybe this is a bug in the VAD, we'll verify it.
As a workarround, you can use the Web Interaction component to do that. You can invoke your web service sending a POST request, and the response can be ignored.

 

[SWSDEV]

Well, if I simply return anything at all it will work. So I just return an "OK" string and it won't crash.

 

[VAD_Support]

Yes, if you can change the web service, maybe that's the best approach. But if you can't change it, you can use the web interaction component.