Step 3: Send the Request Message to Insert Records and Receive a Response

Time to complete: 10 minutes

Objective: In this step, you send the request message to insert records into the Purchase_Order table and receive a response.

Prerequisites

You must have completed Step 2: Map the UPDATE_EMPLOYEE Response Message to Insert Operation Request Message.

To send the request message and receive a response

1. Add the following shapes to the orchestration under the Construct Message shape.

   Shape	Shape Type	Properties
   SendInsertMessage	Send	- Set Message to InsertPO - Set Name to SendInsertMessage
   ReceiveInsertResponse	Receive	- Set Activate to False - Set Message to InsertPOResponse - Set Name to ReceiveInsertResponse
   SaveInsertResponse	Send	- Set Message to InsertPOResponse - Set Name to SaveInsertResponse

2. Modify the SQLOutboundPort you created in Step 2: Send the Request Message to SQL Server and Receive Response.

   1. Right-click the port in the Orchestration Designer, and then click New Operation. The port shape changes to add a new operation, Operation_1.

   2. Click Operation_1 and in the properties window, change the value of Identifier to InsertPO.

3. Add a one-way send port to the orchestration. You will use this port to send the response message for the Insert operation. Set the following properties for the port.

   Set this property	To this value
   Communication Direction	Send
   Communication Pattern	One-Way
   Identifier	SaveResponsePort

   Also, change the operation name from Operation_1 to InsertPO.

4. Connect the port to action shapes. In Orchestration Designer, on the design surface, drag the green arrow-shaped handle for the port to the corresponding green handle of the action shape.

   Note

   In this step, you use the drag-and-drop method to connect ports to action shapes. You could instead use the operation property of an action shape to connect the action shape to a port.

   Connect the ports and action shapes as follows:

   • Connect the SendInsertMessage action shape to the Request handle of the InsertPO operation of the SQLOutboundPort.

   • Connect the ReceiveInsertResponse action shape to the Response handle of the InsertPO operation of the SQLOutboundPort.

   • Connect the SaveInsertResponse action shape to the Request handle of the SaveResponsePort.

5. The following figure shows the in-progress orchestration.

   

What did I just do?

You sent the request to insert records into the Purchase_Order table and receive a response.

Next Steps

You build the project, as described in Step 4: Build the Project.

See Also

Step 2: Map the UPDATE_EMPLOYEE Response Message to Insert Operation Request Message
Step 4: Build the Project
Lesson 4: Perform an Insert Operation on the Purchase Order Table