Send custom SOAP with ExchangeService - exchange-server

I want to send a custom SOAP message using ExchangeService. I am not sure if that's possible or not. All I've seen was some OnSerializeCustomSoapHeaders method that was supposed to add a property to every request. But I want to craft the whole message. Is that even possible?

The EWS Managed API is open source on https://github.com/OfficeDev/ews-managed-api you can see the Managed API just uses httpwebRequest under the covers https://github.com/OfficeDev/ews-managed-api/blob/76708b8124cd273b56269334f0a908b2eb0aca6c/Core/EwsHttpWebRequest.cs . Generally the easiest thing to do however is just use httpwebrequest yourself and take the URL etc from the ExchangeService Class you already using (or use httpclient if you want make it async).
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Glen

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how to use the proxy service without tryit tool in wso2 esb?

I am learning and working on building some wso2 sample prototypes.
I have created a proxy service and tried using it with the tryit tool inside.
But i don't know how to use it externally. i mean how to send data to the proxy service because in API there is a endpoint created where the request is sent.
Is there anything like link to request or how to use it externally in some application.
You can use SOAP UI. Please check the article.
The easiest way to call Your proxy service is to use some Rest Client on Your Browser. I use Add-On in Firefox (RestClient i think). U can create there whole request (json, xml), add headers, Authentications or Content Type. It should helps U to call any services in wso2.

OSB - Split-Join calling secured web service

I create a new Split-Join (in the OSB workshop application). Then
I use an action "Invoke Service" to call a not secured business service. So far no problem. When I assign a security policy to my business service, the OSB does not accept. Here is the error message in the OSB workshop:
[Parallel, Scope, Invoke Service]
The WSDL Binding for BusinessService "OSB/1_0/BusinessServices/TestBS" is not supported: The service feature "WS-Security" is not supported.
How can I call a secured business service in a splitJoin?
Thanks
I'll put a little more expanded version of the correct answer of user2364825.
Split-Join is actually a "window" into an older product (that's why it looks and behave differently from OSB). That product has some limitation, including inability to work with WS_POLICY.
There are two commonly used workarounds for that.
Approach #1. Make a version of the same WSDL stripped of WS_POLICY and use it in the Split-Join. From the Split-Join, call the intermediate proxy with that stripped WSDL which in turn calls a business service with the original WSDL.
BizService(Stripped WSDL)->Split-Join->Proxy2(Stripped WSDL)->BizService(Real WSDL)
That approach only works if the WS_POLICY headers are created by OSB code.
If the message going via Split-Join already has some SOAP Headers (including Policies), those are going to be lost, and the approach #1 is not working.
Approach #2. Make a custom WSDL which wraps the original message with all its SOAP Headers and whatnot. Use that WSDL for Split-Join, pass the wrapped message to an unwrapping proxy, and then call the real proxy/biz.
BizService(Wrapper WSDL)->Split-Join->Proxy2(Wrapper WSDL)->BizService(Real WSDL)
The second approach is more complex, but also more powerful. For instance, it easily can be extended to support user headers (Split-Join doesn't support them too), passing debug information and pretty much anything else.
This approach is implemented in my GenericParallel service which does all above and some more.
I also have a blog post outlining passing the SOAP Headers via Split-Join in a bit more details. (The WS_Policy is just a SOAP Header after all).
YOu can never a call a WSDL based proxy/Business Service that has WS_POLICY defined in the WSDL. You need to have a intermediate business/proxy to pass the message to the WS-policy containg WSDL service.

Forming a SOAP request message through WSDL

I'm very new to webservices. I'm trying to figure out how I can formulate a request message (and determine what the response message) would be based on the wsdl description that I have.
This is from a third party web service. The WSDL description that I have access to gives me a bunch of information like <types> <message> <operation> etc.
But in the examples that I've seen online, it's showing the request mesage within the "soap:envelope" tag.
What am I missing?
Eventually I'd like to be able to call this webservice using JQuery. But I can't even figure out how to formulate the request message let alone make an ajax call to it.
any help would be appreciated.
For these types of situations I would download soapUI, point it to your WSDL and use it to generate a few sample requests to get familiar with the endpoints, messages and the data model (XSD) for the service.
Armed with soapUI's sample requests it should be fairly easy to move this to jQuery's SOAP client (assuming of cause that the service is not humongous and requires you to transfer a big object graph as XML - in these cases you might want to check if your service vendor has a REST API as these are generally very easy to work with from jQuery).

Modifying HTTP request and responses with a Browser Helper Object

I want to modify HTTP requests headers using an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object.
I basically need to change a few headers for every request, and then modify the response before it returns to the browser.
I tried using the OnNavigate2 events, but those don't even give you access to all of the headers.
I tried making an Asynchronous Pluggable Protocol, but then I don't really have access to the default HTTP implementation, and i can't override the default HTTP requests.
Do you have any idea how this is supposed to be done?
I prefer C#, but could use C++ if necessary.
It can be done with URL monikers.
There is an implementation of something like that by a guy called Igor Tandetik.
You can find links to the code in: microsoft.public.inetsdk.programming google group - just look for PassthruAPP.
(I would have posted a link but apparently new users are not allowed to do this)
It doesn't directly support modifying the response body though.
You will have to insert a hook into the IInternetProtocolImpl::Read method.
The easiest way to do it is to use an http proxy to intercept everything the way Fiddler does.
See this description of the Fiddler PowerToy (Part 1).
It seems that you can only modify CUSTOM headers by using the headers parameters of the BeforeNavigate2 event. Not all the headers are accessible. This is a way to try to minimize the potential of the BHOs to act as a Trojans. Use a HTTP proxy instead.

Are there any MVC web frameworks that support multiple request types?

In every MVC framework I've tried (Rails, Merb, Waves, Spring, and Struts), the idea of a Request (and Response) is tied to the HTTP notion of a Request. That is, even if there is an AbstractRequest that is a superclass of Request, the AbstractRequest has things like headers, request method (GET, POST, etc.), and all of the other things tied to HTTP.
I'd like to support a request-response cycle over SMS, Twitter, email, or any other medium for which I can make an adapter. Is there a framework that does this particularly well?
The only other option I've thought of is creating, for example, a Twitter poller that runs in a separate thread and translates messages into local HTTP requests, then sends the responses back out.
If there were a good framework for multiple request media, what would routing look like? In Rails, the HTTP routing looks something like:
map.connect 'some/path/with/:parameter_1/:paramter_2', :controller => 'foo', :action => 'bar'
How would a Twitter or SMS route look? Regular expressions to match keywords and parameters?
I haven't seen one. The issue is that the request is also tied to the host, and the response is tied to the request.
So if you get a request in via email, and a controller says to render view "aboutus", you'd need the MVC framework to know how to :
get the request in the first place - the MVC framework would almost need to be a host (IIS doesn't get notified on new emails, so how does your email polling code get fired?)
allow flexible route matching - matching by path/url wouldn't work for all, so request-specific controller routing would be needed
use the aboutus email view rather than the SMS or HTTP view named "aboutus"
send the response out via email, to the correct recipient
A web MVC framework isn't going to cut it - you'll need a MVC "host" that can handle activation through web, sms, email, whatever.
The Java Servlet specification was designed for Servlets to be protocol neutral, and to be extended in a protocol-specific way - HttpServlet being a protocol-specific Servlet extension. I always imagined that Sun, or other third poarty framework providers, would come up with other protocol-specific extensions like FtpServlet or MailServlet, or in this case SmsServlet and TwitterServlet.
Instead what has happened is that people either completely bypassed the Servlet framework, or have built their protocols on top of HTTP.
Of course, if you want to implement a protocol-specific extension for your required protocols, you would have to develop the whole stack - request object, response object, a mechanism of identifying sessions (for example using the MSISDN in an SMS instead of cookies), a templating and rendering framework (equivalent of JSP) - and then build an MVC framework on top of it.
You seem to be working mostly with Java and/or Ruby, so forgive me that this answer is based on Perl :-).
I'm very fond of the Catalyst MVC Framework (http://www.catalystframework.org/). It delegates the actual mapping of requests (in the general, generic sense) to code via engines. Granted, all the engine classes are currently based on HTTP, but I have toyed with the idea of trying to write an engine class that wasn't based on HTTP (or was perhaps tied to something like Twitter, but was separated from the HTTP interactions that Twitter uses). At the very least, I'm convinced it can be done, even if I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.
You could implement a REST-based Adapter over your website, which replaces the templates and redirects according to the input parameters.
All requestes coming in on api.yourhost.com will be handled by the REST based adapter.
This adapter would allow to call your website programmatically and have the result in a parseable format.
Practically this means: It replaces the Templates with an own Template Engine, on which this things happen:
instead of the assigned template, a generic xml/json template is called, which just outputs a xml that contains all template vars
then you can make your Twitter Poller, SMS Gateway or even call it from Javascript.

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