(C#) Simple SOAP Request

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Demonstrates how to send a simple SOAP request.

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

// Create the following XML to be sent in the SOAP request body.

// <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:dat="http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
//     <soapenv:Header/>
//     <soapenv:Body>
//         <dat:NumberToDollars>
//             <dat:dNum>99.0</dat:dNum>
//         </dat:NumberToDollars>
//     </soapenv:Body>
// </soapenv:Envelope>

Chilkat.Xml xml = new Chilkat.Xml();
xml.Tag = "soapenv:Envelope";
xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:dat","http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/");
xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:soapenv","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Header","");
xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Body|dat:NumberToDollars|dat:dNum","99.0");

// In a SOAP HTTP request, including the XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>) in the XML body is generally not required. 
xml.EmitXmlDecl = false;
string soapRequestBody = xml.GetXml();

string endpoint = "https://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/numberconversion.wso";
string soapAction = "";
//  For SOAP requests, the standard Content-Type is usually set to "text/xml" or "application/soap+xml"
string contentType = "text/xml";

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

http.ClearHeaders();
http.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type",contentType);
http.SetRequestHeader("SOAPAction",soapAction);

Chilkat.HttpResponse resp = http.PostXml(endpoint,soapRequestBody,"utf-8");
if (http.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText);
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed to send SOAP request.");
    return;
}

// Get the XML response body.
Chilkat.Xml responseXml = new Chilkat.Xml();
resp.GetBodyXml(responseXml);

int statusCode = resp.StatusCode;
Debug.WriteLine("response status code: " + Convert.ToString(statusCode));

// If the status code does not indicate succcess, then show the response XML,
// which probably contains error information.
if (statusCode != 200) {
    Debug.WriteLine(responseXml.GetXml());
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine(responseXml.GetXml());

// Parse the successful SOAP response XML.

// This is a sample of the response XML, but the namespace prefixes will be different.
// We can parse the result using "*" for the namespace prefixes (see below).

// <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:dat="http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
//     <soapenv:Header/>
//     <soapenv:Body>
//         <dat:NumberToDollarsResponse>
//             <dat:NumberToDollarsResult>string</dat:NumberToDollarsResult>
//         </dat:NumberToDollarsResponse>
//     </soapenv:Body>
// </soapenv:Envelope>

string dat_NumberToDollarsResult = responseXml.GetChildContent("*:Body|*:NumberToDollarsResponse|*:NumberToDollarsResult");
Debug.WriteLine("result: " + dat_NumberToDollarsResult);