(MFC) Alabama Motor Fuel Excise Tax E-Filing SOAP XML POST (NewSubmission)

Demonstrates how to post a NewSubmission to the Alabama MFET (Motor Fuel Excise Tax) e-File.

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See Also: Using MFC CString in Chilkat

#include <CkStringBuilder.h>
#include <CkXml.h>
#include <CkHttp.h>
#include <CkHttpResponse.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkString strOut;

    //  This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    //  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    bool success;

    //  Here is an example of an HTTP POST Request we'll be sending:

    //  POST /WebServices/MFET/ HTTP/1.1
    //  Content-Type: text/xml
    //  SOAPAction: NewSubmission
    // 
    //  <soapenv:Envelope
    //    xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
    //    xmlns:tem="http://tempuri.org/"
    //    xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
    //    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    //    <soapenv:Header/>
    //    <soapenv:Body>
    //      <tem:NewSubmission>
    //        <tem:UserName>yourusername</tem:UserName>
    //        <tem:Password>yourpassword</tem:Password>
    //        <tem:File xsi:type="xsd:base64Binary">TRANSMISSION_XML_FILE_CONTENTS_AS_BASE64</tem:File>
    //      </tem:NewSubmission>
    //    </soapenv:Body>
    //  </soapenv:Envelope>

    //  In the above XML, the "TRANSMISSION_XML_FILE_CONTENTS_AS_BASE64" contains the base64 encoded
    //  string of the XML file that contains "<Transmission> ... </Transmission>"
    //  First let's load the transmission XML file and get the contents as base64.
    CkStringBuilder sbXml;
    success = sbXml.LoadFile("qa_data/xml/AL_SR_999802_test.xml","utf-8");
    if (success != true) {
        strOut.append("Failed to load XML file.");
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    sbXml.Encode("base64","utf-8");

    //  Build the XMl that will be the body of the HTTP request.
    CkXml xml;
    xml.put_Tag("soapenv:Envelope");
    xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:soapenv","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
    xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:tem","http://tempuri.org/");
    xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:xsd","http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema");
    xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:xsi","http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
    xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Header","");
    xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:UserName","yourusername");
    xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:Password","yourpassword");
    xml.UpdateAttrAt("soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:File",true,"xsi:type","xsd:base64Binary");
    xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:File",sbXml.getAsString());

    CkHttp http;

    http.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type","text/xml");
    http.SetRequestHeader("SoapAction","NewSubmission");

    CkHttpResponse *resp = http.PostXml("https://mattest.alabama.gov/WebServices/MFET/",xml.getXml(),"utf-8");
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        strOut.append(http.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    strOut.append("Response status code = ");
    strOut.appendInt(resp->get_StatusCode());
    strOut.append("\r\n");
    strOut.append("Response body text:");
    strOut.append("\r\n");
    strOut.append(resp->bodyStr());
    strOut.append("\r\n");

    //  The response will look like this:

    //  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    //  <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    //      <s:Body>
    //          <NewSubmissionResponse xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
    //              <NewSubmissionResult i:type="a:base64Binary" xmlns:a="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">BASE64_RESULT</NewSubmissionResult>
    //          </NewSubmissionResponse>
    //      </s:Body>
    //  </s:Envelope>

    //  We can get the base64 result like this:
    CkXml xmlResult;
    xmlResult.LoadXml(resp->bodyStr());
    CkStringBuilder sbResult;
    sbResult.Append(xmlResult.getChildContent("s:Body|NewSubmissionResponse|NewSubmissionResult"));
    sbResult.Decode("base64","utf-8");
    strOut.append("Decoded result:");
    strOut.append("\r\n");
    strOut.append(sbResult.getAsString());
    strOut.append("\r\n");

    //  A sample of a decoded error response:

    //  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    //  <!--ADOR Acknowledgement 1-->
    //  <Transmission xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://www.irs.gov/efile">
    //    <Jurisdiction>ALABAMA</Jurisdiction>
    //    <TransmissionId>2018-09-1019:14R000000001</TransmissionId>
    //    <Timestamp>2018-09-10T19:14:12Z</Timestamp>
    //    <Transmitter>
    //      <ETIN>00000</ETIN>
    //    </Transmitter>
    //    <ProcessType>P</ProcessType>
    //    <AgentIdentifier>ACK</AgentIdentifier>
    //    <AcknowledgementID>0</AcknowledgementID>
    //    <AcknowledgementTimeStamp>2018-09-11T21:16:34-05:00</AcknowledgementTimeStamp>
    //    <Errors>
    //      <Error>Process Type must be 'T' when submitted to Testing Web Service</Error>
    //    </Errors>
    //  </Transmission>

    delete resp;


    SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());

    }