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westside47
Copper Contributor
Mar 19, 2019

How to consume a SOAP web service in 0365/Sharepoint online.

Hey all!

 

I have scoured the web for hours and today and cannot seem to find an appropriate answer to the problem I am trying to solve. 

 

I have an eternal soap api/web service that I am trying to grab data from located at: https://api.com/service.svc and I cannot for the life of me find help on how to set up a service or add in to consume that data. Everything I seem to find points me to client-side rest calls that won't work for this non-CORS api.

I have an 0365 developer account, visual studio, and am ready to build an add-in or whatever I need.

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  • Andrew Petersen's avatar
    Andrew Petersen
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 20, 2019

    westside47 

    Here's how I'd probably tackle it...

     

    Step 1: Build an https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/quickstart-v1-dotnet-webapi wrapper around the Soap Service

    - Use .NET or Node to connect to the Soap Service using a Service Account

    - Exposes your SOAP data via Restful API over HTTP

    - Requires an Azure AD access token

    - Supports Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

    - Azure Functions are my goto for this scenario

     

     

    Step 2: Create an SPFx Customization that consumes your Azure AD Web API

    - Follow the docs on how to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/spfx/use-aadhttpclient

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