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

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Also see Chilkat's Online WSDL Code Generator
// to generate code and SOAP Request and Response XML for each operation in a WSDL.
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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.
Chilkat.StringBuilder sbXml = new Chilkat.StringBuilder();
success = sbXml.LoadFile("qa_data/xml/AL_SR_999802_test.xml","utf-8");
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed to load XML file.");
    return;
}

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

// Build the XMl that will be the body of the HTTP request.
Chilkat.Xml xml = new Chilkat.Xml();
xml.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());

Chilkat.Http http = new Chilkat.Http();

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

Chilkat.HttpResponse resp = http.PostXml("https://mattest.alabama.gov/WebServices/MFET/",xml.GetXml(),"utf-8");
if (http.LastMethodSuccess != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Response status code = " + Convert.ToString(resp.StatusCode));
Debug.WriteLine("Response body text:");
Debug.WriteLine(resp.BodyStr);

// 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:
Chilkat.Xml xmlResult = new Chilkat.Xml();
xmlResult.LoadXml(resp.BodyStr);
Chilkat.StringBuilder sbResult = new Chilkat.StringBuilder();
sbResult.Append(xmlResult.GetChildContent("s:Body|NewSubmissionResponse|NewSubmissionResult"));
sbResult.Decode("base64","utf-8");
Debug.WriteLine("Decoded result:");
Debug.WriteLine(sbResult.GetAsString());

// 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>