Using Expression Language in Webservice Connector

[gourab (Gourab Sadhukhan)]

I recently realized webservice connector supports expressions. ( Using Expression Language )

I have a use case where I have to split the value by “:” and pass the 1st part in URL and 2nd part in body. I can easily do it using rules but just exploring if I can achieve it OOTB.

I have tried this: _#$plan.role$.substring(0, $plan.role$.indexOf(‘:’))_#

but it gave me “_ “

Any insights on this would be a great help

[amit_1140 (Amit Kumar)]

@gourab -
You used

_#$plan.role$.substring(0, $plan.role$.indexOf(':'))_#

The problem is this bit:

$plan.role$.indexOf(':')

If you look at the Web Services expression language docs, the only string methods it supports are:

1. concat
2. length
3. toUpperCase
4. toLowerCase
5. replace
6. substring

There’s no indexOf (and no split) in that list. The EL here is not full Java String; it’s a very small, whitelisted subset.

Hope this clarifies your doubt why it didn’t work for you.

[amit_1140 (Amit Kumar)]

@gourab -

Do you still need any help?
If not, please mark it as solved.

Thanks for your cooperation.