HTTP Form Posts and the PeopleTools Integration Broker
By Chris Malek | Thu, Feb 3, 2011
When integrating with 3rd Party applications the question often comes up can the PeopleTools integration broker handle http from post data either sending or receiving. The short answer is no.
Outbound from PeopleSoft
PeopleTools does not have PeopleCode methods exposed to set the http header to:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Additionally, no methods exists to set form field values in the header. The alternative is to pass values in the Query string of the URL. Of course you can always post XML in the form body.
Inbound into PeopleSoft
The integration broker cannot handle inbound http form data. You can use an iscript for this. In the Integration broker your options are: header fields, query string fields, and xml post.
Article Categories
Chris Malek
Chris Malek is a PeopleTools® Technical Consultant with two decades of experience working on PeopleSoft enterprise software projects. He is available for consulting engagements.
About Chris Work with ChrisPeopleSoft Simple Web Services (SWS)
Introducing a small but powerful PeopleSoft bolt-on that makes web services very easy. If you have a SQL statement, you can turn that into a web service in PeopleSoft in a few minutes.
Integration Broker - The Missing Manual
I am in the process of writing a book called "Integration Broker - The Missing Manual" that you can read online.