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Sending a Request to the URL Engine
http://your_webserver.domain_
name:port/alias/rwservlet?report=myreport.rdf&userid=username/password@my_
db&server=server_name&desformat=html&destype=cache
If you require additional command line options, then refer to Command Line
Options for a list of valid rwclient command line options.
■ Simplified URL request using key mapping, for example:
http://your_webserver.domain_name:port/alias/rwservlet?key1
13.6 Sending a Request to the URL Engine
If you have activated the Reports Server’s URL engine, you can send job requests to
the URL engine by using the following command line options:
■ urlParameter identifies the URL to be placed in the cache. For example,
http://www.oracle.com or a JSP report.
■ jobType is the name of a job type (e.g., urlEngine) in the server configuration
file that is associated with a URL engine.
Note: For information on activating the URL engine, refer to
Configuring OracleAS Reports Services.
For example, a request that specifies an external URL for urlParameter might look
like the following:
http://your_
webserver:portnum/reports/rwservlet?server=ReportsServer+jobType=urlEngine+urlPara
meter="http://www.oracle.com"+destype=mail+desname=foo@bar.com+desformat=htmlcss
Alternatively, a request that specifies a JSP report for urlParameter would look like
the following:
http://your_
webserver:portnum/reports/rwservlet?server=ReportsServer+jobType=rwurl+destype=cac
he+urlParameter="http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Ffoo.jsp%3Fuserid%3Dscott%2Ftiger@oraDB%3
Fserver%3DreportsServer"
Note: If the URL has special characters, they must be encoded as
per the x-www-form-urlencoded format.
13.7 Running Reports through a Web Service
In many cases, reports are integrated components of some larger application rather a
stand alone application themselves. Hence, it can be useful to generate report requests
from within an application. We accomplish this goal by exposing OracleAS Reports
Services as a Web service. This Web service may then be called from within any Web
service aware environment (e.g., a Java application). For example, suppose that you
have a Java-based expense reporting form and you want to allow users to generate a
PDF version of their expense reports from it each time that they complete an expense
form in your system. By creating a Java proxy Oracle Reports Web Service, you could
then easily reference it from your Java development environment (e.g., Oracle
JDeveloper) and add a button that invokes OracleAS Reports Services to generate the
PDF file.
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