Hello all,
I have done some research and discovered that SAS can interact with SOAP-based XML WEB Services, however I am looking at developing a REST-based architecture. We want to be able to read a string that is returned by visiting a URL into a SAS dataset and then using that string to determine what data to download.
I asked this question in a separate post and the response was to use FILENAME URL to read from the link. I tried this but it seemed unreliable in that it only worked for my test string if the record length was set to <= record length and the record format was fixed. Varying length records didn't seem to work.
What I'm wondering is if anyone else has tried to utilise a REST architecture with SAS and what has their experience been? I would also like to know how to process XML data received from a REST request?
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