[SalesForce] Testing custom apex webservice with SOAP UI

We haven't had much luck implementing this library with exacttarget's SOAP webservices. We suggest using ws.js.

Using this library, you can build out your SOAP packets directly. Here is some sample code to describe the subscriber object.

var ws = require('ws.js');
var Http = ws.Http;
var Security = ws.Security;
var UsernameToken = ws.UsernameToken;

  var request = '<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">' +   
                      '<soapenv:Header>' +
                           '<ns1:fueloauth xmlns:ns1="http://exacttarget.com">[USE YOUR OAUTH TOKEN]</ns1:fueloauth>' +
                      '</soapenv:Header>' +
                      '<soapenv:Body>' +
                      '<DefinitionRequestMsg xmlns="http://exacttarget.com/wsdl/partnerAPI">' +
                         '<DescribeRequests>' +
                            '<ObjectDefinitionRequest>' +
                               '<ObjectType>Subscriber</ObjectType>' +
                            '</ObjectDefinitionRequest>' +
                         '</DescribeRequests>' +
                      '</DefinitionRequestMsg>' +
                   '</soapenv:Body>' +
                '</soapenv:Envelope>'


var ctx =  { request: request 
           , url: "https://webservice.s6.exacttarget.com/Service.asmx"
           , action: "Describe"
           , contentType: "text/xml" 
           }


var handlers =  [ new Http() ]

ws.send(handlers, ctx, function(ctx) {                    
  console.log("response: " + ctx.response);
})

I had to modify your webservice a bit to get a valid WSDL that SOAPUI could import. When you pass the accountId as the Account type Salesforce adds a whole lot of extra simple and complex types to the WSDL that aren't really needed. The WSDL goes from 6 KB to 542 KB. By sticking with strings or Ids the WSDL is much simpler.

Without any modifications I get the following error from SoupUI:

Error: type 'address@http://soup.sforce.com/schemas/class/DFB/myClass'

This is because there is no complex or simple type address in namespace http://soap.sforce.com/schemas/class/DFB/myClass (alias tns).

Here is my simplified Apex web service:

global class myClass { 
    webService static Id makeContact(String lastName, Id accountId) { 
        Contact c = new Contact(LastName = lastName, AccountId = accountId); 
        insert c;
        System.debug(LoggingLevel.Info, 'Created ' + c.Id + ' for ' + accountId);
        return c.id; 
    }
}

Be sure to save the WSDL directly from the link rather than opening it in the browser and then saving it to disk. I've found browsers can make subtle changes to the WSDL that will sometimes corrupt them.

The resulting WSDL imported into SoupUI successfully for me and I was able to make the following request. Here the SessionID was pulled from an active session using the anonymous apex:

String sessionID = UserInfo.getSessionId();
System.debug(sessionID);

Sample request to same pod as the session was retrieved from:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:myc="http://soap.sforce.com/schemas/class/DFB/myClass">
   <soapenv:Header>
      <myc:SessionHeader>
         <myc:sessionId>00D700000000001!AQoAQGOTA_NOTAREALSESSIONID_Bqf78awnl</myc:sessionId>
      </myc:SessionHeader>
   </soapenv:Header>
   <soapenv:Body>
      <myc:makeContact>
         <myc:lastName>Foo</myc:lastName>
         <myc:accountId>0017000000UolWs</myc:accountId>
      </myc:makeContact>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Which gave the response:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/schemas/class/DFB/myClass">
   <soapenv:Body>
      <makeContactResponse>
         <result>003700000000005AAP</result>
      </makeContactResponse>
   </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>