40.17 PARSE_RESPONSE Function

Use this function to parse the response from a Web service that is stored in a collection and return the result as a VARCHAR2 type.

Syntax

APEX_WEB_SERVICE.PARSE_RESPONSE (
    p_collection_name   IN VARCHAR2,
    p_xpath             IN VARCHAR2,
    p_ns                IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL ) 
RETURN VARCHAR2;

Parameters

Table 40-11 PARSE_RESPONSE Function Parameters

Parameter	Description
p_collection_name	The name of the collection where the Web service response is stored.
p_xpath	The XPath expression to the desired node.
p_ns	The namespace to the desired node.

Example

The following example parses a response stored in a collection called STELLENT_CHECKIN and stores the value in a locally declared VARCHAR2 variable.

declare
    l_response_msg  VARCHAR2(4000);
BEGIN
    l_response_msg := apex_web_service.parse_response(
        p_collection_name=>'STELLENT_CHECKIN',
        p_xpath =>
'//idc:CheckInUniversalResponse/idc:CheckInUniversalResult/idc:StatusInfo/idc:statusMessage/text()',
        p_ns=>'xmlns:idc="http://www.stellent.com/CheckIn/"');
END;