Direct web services Perl example - querying all incidents 5 records at a time

You can easily extend this example to retrieve a set of predefined records, nnumber of records each query, simulating a windowed querying client. Using a windowed query mechanisms overcomes the default limitation of only getting a maximum of 250 records per query.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

#use SOAP::Lite ( +trace =>; all, maptype => {} );
use SOAP::Lite;

# basic auth using the ITIL user
sub SOAP::Transport::HTTP::Client::get_basic_credentials {
   return 'itil' => 'itil';
}

# specify the endpoint to connect
my $soap = SOAP::Lite
    -> proxy('https://<instance name>.service-now.com/incident.do?SOAP');

my $method = SOAP::Data->name('getRecords')
    ->attr({xmlns => 'http://www.service-now.com/'});

# get all incidents with a window of 5, starting at row 0, and less than row 5 (total of 5 records)
my @params = ( SOAP::Data->name(__first_row => '0') );
push(@params, SOAP::Data->name(__last_row => '5') );
# the last row number can also be taken as the 'limit' offset by the starting first row

# order by the number field
push(@params, SOAP::Data->name(__order_by => 'number') ); 

my $result = $soap->call($method => @params);
print_fault($result);
print_results($result);

sub print_results {
  my ($result) = @_;

  my %keyHash = %{ $result->body->{'getRecordsResponse'} };

  my $i = 0;
  my $size = @{$keyHash{'getRecordsResult'}};
  for ($i=0; $i<$size; $i++) {
    my %record = %{$keyHash{'getRecordsResult'}[$i]};
    print "------------------------------ $i ----------------------------\n";
    foreach my $kk (keys %record) {
# print only the number of the incident
      if ($kk eq "number") {
        print "$kk=$record{$kk}\n";
      }
    }
  }
}

sub print_fault {
  my ($result) = @_;

  if ($result->fault) {
    print "faultcode=" . $result->fault->{'faultcode'} . "\n";
    print "faultstring=" . $result->fault->{'faultstring'} . "\n";
    print "detail=" . $result->fault->{'detail'} . "\n";
  }
}