Pass string to a flow service in DSP Need Simple Example

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Hello All,

I built a simple flow service that takes a string value as input and returns the same string as output - for the purposes of learning about DSP’s. Now I am trying to:

  1. Call this service from a DSP and pass the input string to it.
  2. Write the output string returned to the same page that called it (i.e. test.dsp sends the request and receives the response)

I saw another gentleman’s post that was similar in nature, however, the responses were not clear for me and his needs were a little more complex than mine.

I am not new to HTML/JSP/ASP/PHP, however, I am new to using DSP and just want a very, very simple example. My hunch is that I have been making this harder for myself than it needs to be.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Daniel

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Daniel,

There are some sample DSP flows provided in the WmSamples package(check in the dsp folder)and follow comments written in the flowservice Input/Output tab for how to test these DSP flows.

The sample .dsp templates are stored in the filefolders of packages/WmSamples/pub/Orders/.
It narrates how to invoke a flowservice,passing parameters using the DSP and display the results in the webpage.

HTH,

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RMG,

Thanks for the reply!

I did consult the sample you mentioned after reading through the DSP guide, however, it was more detail than I was looking for considering my relative new-ness to using DSPs. They were passing arguments to another page, doing loop logic, and other things too; plus the comments were not exactly intuitive/explicit.

I just want a “barebones” simple example that passed in the input argument and received that output argument on the same page in order to, “draw a bead”, on the process/syntax if you will.

I apologize it that sounds stupid, however, I usually like to start crudely simple when learning something new. Do you have a simple example handy?

Thanks!
Daniel

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Daniel,

Please check this attached (DisplayWeb)package which narrates a sample created dsp flow which has input string(text) and output (result).

See the flowservice input/output tab under comments how to invoke this service from .dsp stored in package/DisplayWeb/pub/test/simple.dsp)

I created this package in IS6.01

Sorry if it didnt helped,

HTH,

SampleDSP_Pack
DisplayWeb.zip (5.2 k)

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HTH,

I appreciate that greatly!!! I took a quick peek at it after installing the package and that is exactly what I was looking for. Will examine it in detail here in a little bit.

Thanks again!

-Daniel