About Web Services connector
The Web services connector lets you import data from external Web services. To get data from an external Web service, you must implement the IDataImporter interface and create a new Web service.
For example, If an external application provides data from a Web service - http://www.securityapp.com/dummyapp/data, you must create a new Web service - http://<machine-name>/securityapp/dataimporter to fetch data from the above mentioned Web service.
The new Web service must implement the IDataImporter interface. The IDataImporter interface provides the following four methods that transform data coming from third-party services into .xml format. CCS uses these methods to fetch data from the external Web service:
- GetSchema
- GetDatapage
- GetParameterInformation
- TestConnection
CCS supports the following binding types for creating a new Web service:
- Basic HTTP
- WSHTTP