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I am trying to connect to a SOAP API in Power BI and having some difficulties. When I test the request in Postman, it works fine, and responds as I would expect, and I can see the data i'm looking for in the response. If I save the response from Postman as an XML file, I can load it into PowerBI and use it no problem.
Problem is, when I try in Power BI to query the API directly, it appears to work, but I can't find the data that I'm looking for in the response, and I get the following error in the response data within Power BI:
ORA-31011: XML parsing failed ORA-19202: Error occurred in XML processing LPX-00007: unexpected end-of-file encountered |
Here is my request URL that works in postman, but doesn't seem to work in Power BI:
https://apps5.somewebsite.com/tseta/servlet/salonws?xmldata=<taws><operation opstype="operation">export</operation><parameters><customercode>somecode</customercode>
<accesscode>someaccesscode</accesscode><username>someusername</username><startdatetime>07 feb 2019 0000</startdatetime><stopdatetime>07 feb 2019 2359</stopdatetime><activitytype>someactivity</activitytype></parameters></taws>
Any thoughts?
Solved! Go to Solution.
So, answer was basically, I'm an idiot. I had the wrong URL *facepalm* Funny thing, once I corrected the URL, everything started to work.
Thanks for the help folks.
Bill
So, answer was basically, I'm an idiot. I had the wrong URL *facepalm* Funny thing, once I corrected the URL, everything started to work.
Thanks for the help folks.
Bill
Hi @bstock ,
Hope the third - party blog can help you.
https://zappysys.com/blog/call-soap-api-power-bi-read-xml-web-service-data/
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