# Whether we can support the webservices / ftp protocol?

**URL:** <https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/whether-we-can-support-the-webservices-ftp-protocol/282>\
**Category:** CloverDX Platform\
**Created:** [February 3, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/whether-we-can-support-the-webservices-ftp-protocol/282 "2008-02-03T00:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![hwhwhw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9d8465/32.png) [@hwhwhw](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/hwhwhw)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/whether-we-can-support-the-webservices-ftp-protocol/282/1 "2008-02-03T00:00:00Z")

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Whether we can provide WebService protocol and the ftp protocol access node, this is the real follow Pipeline model.  
Example:

Return type may be a need to increase the Object type, a developer may need to Object type conversion into other types of java.  
eg.  
(String)Object ; (Numeric)Object ; (Long)Object ; (Decimal)Object ; (Byte)Object ; (Integer)Object ; (Date)Object

eg.  
DELIMITED\_DATA\_READER → CALL\_WEBSERVICES → DELIMITED\_DATA\_WRITER

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**Author:** ![dpavlis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90ced4/32.png) [@dpavlis](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/dpavlis)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/whether-we-can-support-the-webservices-ftp-protocol/282/2 "2008-02-04T16:27:13Z")

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Well, currently (Clover engine 2.3/2.4) does not have such component - CALL\_WEBSERVICES.  
It seems to me that you might go with XMLExtract or XMLXPathReader and modify it slightly - so it can read parameters from input, fire a HTTP GET request and then process&send out parsed result.

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**Author:** ![hwhwhw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9d8465/32.png) [@hwhwhw](https://forum.cloverdx.com/u/hwhwhw)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.cloverdx.com/t/whether-we-can-support-the-webservices-ftp-protocol/282/3 "2008-02-18T00:41:52Z")

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Thank you for your response.  
Hope to be in a higher version (Clover engine 2.4.1 or 2.5) can achieve such a visit webservice / ftp protocol access node, we can make up for the gaps in this area.