SOAP

SO-S-24 SOAP services

The online retailer Amazon.com has provided developers with an interface, that will allow them to do product searches based on a keyword, and a base category.
The API is used either by a SOAP call or by a fetch of a XML document.
Amazon.com suggests you to download the developer kit. However this is optional, as it is not necessary to run the following OpenLink tutorial.
A developer key is required to access the service. One may be applied for at the Amazon.Com Web API page.
The service requests may be configured in various ways by the parameters supplied to the API.

In the SQL setup file, the SOAP call is prepared by the function call to soap_wsdl_import() which reads in the web service ".wsdl" file from Amazon.com.
Enter the Developer Key, result type, root node for the search, and the keyword to be searched for.
Hit the search button to get the products matching the keyword.
This example uses the "heavy" mode of results, that contains the full customer reviews.
A local stylesheet is applied to the result for either an XML or HTML view.