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Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) Get Currencies

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The Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) is the central bank of Hungary. In this role, its primary objective is to achieve and maintain price stability. The MNB website is available to visitors in both Hungarian and English. The MNB provides the Arfolyam (trans. Exchange Rate) API, which can be used to retrieve current and historic currency exchange rates. This service uses SOAP calls issued in XML format.

This example gets a list of currencies.

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Local $bSuccess = False

$oRest = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Rest")

; URL: http://www.mnb.hu/arfolyamok.asmx
Local $bTls = False
Local $iPort = 80
Local $bAutoReconnect = True
$bSuccess = $oRest.Connect("www.mnb.hu",$iPort,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite("ConnectFailReason: " & $oRest.ConnectFailReason & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

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

$oXml = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Xml")
$oXml.Tag = "soapenv:Envelope"
$oXml.AddAttribute("xmlns:soapenv","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/")
$oXml.AddAttribute("xmlns:web","http://www.mnb.hu/webservices/")
$oXml.UpdateChildContent "soapenv:Header",""
$oXml.UpdateChildContent "soapenv:Body|web:GetCurrencies",""

$oRest.AddHeader("Content-Type","text/xml")
$oRest.AddHeader("SOAPAction","/webservices/MNBArfolyamServiceSoap/GetCurrencies")
$oRest.AddHeader("Accept","application/xml")

$oSbRequestBody = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$oXml.GetXmlSb($oSbRequestBody)
$oSbResponseBody = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$bSuccess = $oRest.FullRequestSb("POST","/arfolyamok.asmx",$oSbRequestBody,$oSbResponseBody)
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

Local $iRespStatusCode = $oRest.ResponseStatusCode
If ($iRespStatusCode >= 400) Then
    ConsoleWrite("Response Status Code = " & $iRespStatusCode & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Response Header:" & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.ResponseHeader & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Response Body:" & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($oSbResponseBody.GetAsString() & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("response status code = " & $iRespStatusCode & @CRLF)

$oXmlResponse = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Xml")
$oXmlResponse.LoadSb($oSbResponseBody,True)
ConsoleWrite($oXmlResponse.GetXml() & @CRLF)

; The XML response contains this:
; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
; <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
;     <s:Body>
;         <GetCurrenciesResponse xmlns="http://www.mnb.hu/webservices/" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
;             <GetCurrenciesResult>&lt;MNBCurrencies&gt;&lt;Currencies&gt;&lt;Curr&gt;HUF&lt;/Curr&gt;&lt;Curr&gt;EUR&lt;/Curr&gt;&lt;Curr&gt;AUD&lt;/Curr&gt; ... &lt;/MNBCurrencies&gt;</GetCurrenciesResult>
;         </GetCurrenciesResponse>
;     </s:Body>
; </s:Envelope>

; Get the GetCurrenciesResult
Local $sResultEncoded = $oXmlResponse.GetChildContent("s:Body|GetCurrenciesResponse|GetCurrenciesResult")
ConsoleWrite($sResultEncoded & @CRLF)

; Entity decode the result to get XML.
$oSbResult = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$oSbResult.Append($sResultEncoded)
$oSbResult.EntityDecode()

; Load it into XML.
$oXmlResult = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Xml")
$oXmlResult.LoadSb($oSbResult,True)
ConsoleWrite($oXmlResult.GetXml() & @CRLF)

; The result is this:

; <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
; <MNBCurrencies>
;     <Currencies>
;         <Curr>HUF</Curr>
;         <Curr>EUR</Curr>
;         <Curr>AUD</Curr>
;         <Curr>BGN</Curr>
;         <Curr>BRL</Curr>
;         <Curr>CAD</Curr>
;         <Curr>CHF</Curr>
;         <Curr>CNY</Curr>
;         <Curr>CZK</Curr>
;         <Curr>DKK</Curr>
;         <Curr>GBP</Curr>
;         <Curr>HKD</Curr>
;         <Curr>HRK</Curr>
;         <Curr>IDR</Curr>
;         <Curr>ILS</Curr>
;         <Curr>INR</Curr>
;         <Curr>ISK</Curr>
;         <Curr>JPY</Curr>
;         <Curr>KRW</Curr>
;         <Curr>MXN</Curr>
;         <Curr>MYR</Curr>
;         <Curr>NOK</Curr>
;         <Curr>NZD</Curr>
;         <Curr>PHP</Curr>
;         <Curr>PLN</Curr>
;         <Curr>RON</Curr>
;         <Curr>RSD</Curr>
;         <Curr>RUB</Curr>
;         <Curr>SEK</Curr>
;         <Curr>SGD</Curr>
;         <Curr>THB</Curr>
;         <Curr>TRY</Curr>
;         <Curr>UAH</Curr>
;         <Curr>USD</Curr>
;         <Curr>ZAR</Curr>
;         <Curr>ATS</Curr>
;         <Curr>AUP</Curr>
;         <Curr>BEF</Curr>
;         <Curr>BGL</Curr>
;         <Curr>CYN</Curr>
;         <Curr>CSD</Curr>
;         <Curr>CSK</Curr>
;         <Curr>DDM</Curr>
;         <Curr>DEM</Curr>
;         <Curr>EEK</Curr>
;         <Curr>EGP</Curr>
;         <Curr>ESP</Curr>
;         <Curr>FIM</Curr>
;         <Curr>FRF</Curr>
;         <Curr>GHP</Curr>
;         <Curr>GRD</Curr>
;         <Curr>IEP</Curr>
;         <Curr>ITL</Curr>
;         <Curr>KPW</Curr>
;         <Curr>KWD</Curr>
;         <Curr>LBP</Curr>
;         <Curr>LTL</Curr>
;         <Curr>LUF</Curr>
;         <Curr>LVL</Curr>
;         <Curr>MNT</Curr>
;         <Curr>NLG</Curr>
;         <Curr>OAL</Curr>
;         <Curr>OBL</Curr>
;         <Curr>OFR</Curr>
;         <Curr>ORB</Curr>
;         <Curr>PKR</Curr>
;         <Curr>PTE</Curr>
;         <Curr>ROL</Curr>
;         <Curr>SDP</Curr>
;         <Curr>SIT</Curr>
;         <Curr>SKK</Curr>
;         <Curr>SUR</Curr>
;         <Curr>VND</Curr>
;         <Curr>XEU</Curr>
;         <Curr>XTR</Curr>
;         <Curr>YUD</Curr>
;     </Currencies>
; </MNBCurrencies>
;