If you are familiar with PeopleSoft Integration Broker, I'm sure you have dealt with SendMaster to some degree. This is a very simple but yet useful tool to perform unit tests of the Integration Broker incoming service operations using plain XML (if I'm dealing with SOAP Web Services, I normally use SoapUI, for which there is a very good article on PeopleSoft Wiki).
Most of the time it's enough with SendMaster, but today I came through a problem that required an alternative. While testing an XML message with this tool against an HTTPS PeopleSoft installation, I got the following error message:
Error communicating with server: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
After checking in My Oracle Support, I've found the following resolution (doc 1634045.1):
Unfortunately, I didn't have access to the appropriate SSL certificate, so I've decided to use curl, a pretty old (dating back to 1997 according to all knowing wikipedia) but still useful command line tool.
curl is a command line tool that can be used to test HTTP and HTTPS operations, including GET, PUT, POST and so on. One of the features of this tool is that it can run in "insecure" mode, eliminating the need of a client certificate to test URLs on HTTPS. Both in Linux and Mac OS, the option to run in insecure mode is -k. The command line to test my service operation then looked like:
curl -X POST -d @test.xml -k https://<server>/PSIGW/HttpListeningConnector
Please note that the @ option actually requests curl to take the data from the file following it. Instead of doing so, you can specify the data in the command line, but it is a bit more cumbersome.
Also, keep in mind that curl is not delivered with Windows out of the box, but you can download similar tools from several sources (for instance, this one).
Most of the time it's enough with SendMaster, but today I came through a problem that required an alternative. While testing an XML message with this tool against an HTTPS PeopleSoft installation, I got the following error message:
Error communicating with server: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
After checking in My Oracle Support, I've found the following resolution (doc 1634045.1):
The following steps will resolve the error:
1) Import the appropriate SSL certificate to the java kestore PS_HOME\jre\lib\security\cacerts or Integration Broker's keystore location i.e pskey file
2) Set sendmaster's preferences ( via File-Preferences-HTTP tab ) to point to the keystore with the appropriate SSL certificate
1) Import the appropriate SSL certificate to the java kestore PS_HOME\jre\lib\security\cacerts or Integration Broker's keystore location i.e pskey file
2) Set sendmaster's preferences ( via File-Preferences-HTTP tab ) to point to the keystore with the appropriate SSL certificate
3) Test
Unfortunately, I didn't have access to the appropriate SSL certificate, so I've decided to use curl, a pretty old (dating back to 1997 according to all knowing wikipedia) but still useful command line tool.
curl is a command line tool that can be used to test HTTP and HTTPS operations, including GET, PUT, POST and so on. One of the features of this tool is that it can run in "insecure" mode, eliminating the need of a client certificate to test URLs on HTTPS. Both in Linux and Mac OS, the option to run in insecure mode is -k. The command line to test my service operation then looked like:
curl -X POST -d @test.xml -k https://<server>/PSIGW/HttpListeningConnector
Please note that the @ option actually requests curl to take the data from the file following it. Instead of doing so, you can specify the data in the command line, but it is a bit more cumbersome.
Also, keep in mind that curl is not delivered with Windows out of the box, but you can download similar tools from several sources (for instance, this one).
4 comments:
SoapUI is how we test almost all of our web services. Highly recommended alternative!
Is there an alternative to cURL in peoplesoft? I need to call cURL command through values fetched in peoplecode.
I'm not sure I understand. cURL is just a way to simulate a call to a PeopleSoft HTTP based integration point from an external system. If you want to issue an HTTP call from PeopleSoft to an external system, you should rather use the existing Integration Broker functionality.
Thanks
Excellent information. I need to GET and POST data from PeopleSoft to an external site using cURL commands. What is simplest way to make this happen? Thank you.
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