Question

QUICK SUMMARY:
Taleo has a single operation “Dispatcher WSDL” that is supposed to return a URL for use with its WebAPI WSDL … the purpose is to allow the URL to be for all intents and purposes soft coded.

For operation getURL,
WcfTestClient.exe XML view shows that in the SOAP envelope a URL has been returned.

However, WcfTestClient.exe formatted view shows
Name: (return) Value: (null) Type: NullObject

My c# vs2010 .NET 4 code; taleoURL is always null

DispatcherAPIClient dispatcherClient = new DispatcherAPIClient("rpcrouter");
string taleoOrgCode = "TALEOSK";
string taleoURL = dispatcherClient.getURL(taleoOrgCode);
if (taleoURL == null) Console.WriteLine("null returned for " + taleoOrgCode);

This null is strange because here is the XML response from WcfTestClient.exe:

<SOAP-ENV:Envelope
 xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <s:Header xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" />
  <SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ns1:getURLResponse xmlns:ns1="urn:TBEDispatcherAPI" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<return xsi:type="xsd:string">https://tbe.taleo.net/NA12/ats/services/rpcrouter</return>
</ns1:getURLResponse>

</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

https://tbe.taleo.net/NA12/ats/services/rpcrouter is the value
of the <return> element.

To be able to use the above link, obviously I need taleoURL to be not null.

Pages 154-155 of the Taleo API guide say that
getURL’s defined as string getURL(string orgCode)
http://tbe.taleo.net/products/TBE_API_Guide.pdf from
http://www.taleo.com/solutions/taleo-business-edition-web-integration-api

also
http://tbe.taleo.net/wsdl/DispatcherAPI.wsdl
http://tbe.taleo.net/wsdl/WebAPI.wsdl

Here’s the Request/Response part of DispatcherAPI.wsdl:

 <wsdl:message name="getURLRequest">
    <wsdl:part name="orgCode" type="xsd:string" />
  </wsdl:message>
  <wsdl:message name="getURLResponse">
    <wsdl:part name="getURLReturn" type="xsd:string" />
  </wsdl:message>

My best guess is that I’m missing something.
This is a case where my own ignorance is not bliss.
MSDN and Google have not helped.

Thank you … Gerry

Answer 1

I just started working with the Taleo WebAPI and I’m having the same issue.

Update: I changed the reference from a VS2010 C# Service Reference to an “old school” Web Reference and then it worked. I’m still working on a “real” solution, but that does work.