Question

I’m creating a sql based procedure which can

1. Accept a table
2. load the values one at a time
3. send the variables to a remote API
4. Record the response of the API
5. Write the response to a table for viewing later

I have successfully implemented 1,2, and 5. I am hoping there may be some way of choosing an address to contact and for SQL to listen too for a response. Please let me know if you have any suggestions!

Answer 1

The only way MySQL can call a webservice is through a custom UDF.

See the below link, but basically what you would need to do is build a C program that would call the remote webservice API with the variables as parameters, return the reponse via the UDF to your actual SQL which could insert the results to a table. This is quite a lot of work though, especially if you are not at all familiar with C.

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/data/mfc_database/misc/article.php/c12615/MySQL-UDFs.htm