Order Web Service

The sample Order Web service offers a number of methods and is available for testing with .NET Explorer at http://demo.borland.com/OrderWebService/OrderService.asmx. The following methods are available:

• SearchArticles: Searches for articles by a name pattern.
• GetArticleByName: Searches for an article by the full name.
• GetArticleById: Searches for an article by its ID.
• CreateUser: Creates a new user in the database.
• Login: Logs in an existing user. The return value is the user ID that is needed for other method calls (store this return value in a global variable).
• Logout: Logs the user out of the system.
• CreateOrder: Creates a new order for the currently logged in user.
• AddOrderItem: Adds an item to the order.
• GetOrder*: Returns information about an order.

All order related methods take the userid as a header parameter. This is why you should store the user ID that is returned by the Login method in a global variable and use the variable as input for all order-related methods.

Some of the methods may throw SOAP exceptions (for example, if you are not logged in and try to create an order).