C#

Populi Add Financial Aid Disbursement

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Demonstrates the Populi addFinancialAidDisbursement task. C#

bool success = false;

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

// First load the previously obtained API token.
// See Get Populi Access Token for sample code showing how to get the API token.
Chilkat.Xml xml = new Chilkat.Xml();
success = xml.LoadXmlFile("qa_data/tokens/populi_token.xml");
string accessKey = xml.GetChildContent("access_key");
if (xml.LastMethodSuccess != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine("Did not find the access_key");
    return;
}

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.Rest();

// Connect using TLS.
// A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many Populi REST API calls.
// The auto-reconnect indicates that if the already-established HTTPS connection is closed,
// then it will be automatically re-established as needed.
bool bAutoReconnect = true;
success = rest.Connect("yourcollege.populi.co",443,true,bAutoReconnect);
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

rest.Authorization = accessKey;

rest.AddQueryParam("task","addFinancialAidDisbursement");
rest.AddQueryParam("person_id","12345678");
rest.AddQueryParam("award_id","555555");
rest.AddQueryParam("academic_term_id","123");
rest.AddQueryParam("scheduled_date","2019-10-10");
rest.AddQueryParam("amount","12345");

string responseBody = rest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/api/index.php");
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// We should expect a 200 response if successful.
if (rest.ResponseStatusCode != 200) {
    Debug.WriteLine("Request Header: ");
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastRequestHeader);
    Debug.WriteLine("----");
    Debug.WriteLine("Response StatusCode = " + Convert.ToString(rest.ResponseStatusCode));
    Debug.WriteLine("Response StatusLine: " + rest.ResponseStatusText);
    Debug.WriteLine("Response Header:");
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.ResponseHeader);
    Debug.WriteLine("Response Body:");
    Debug.WriteLine(responseBody);
    return;
}

xml.LoadXml(responseBody);
Debug.WriteLine(xml.GetXml());

// Sample response:
// Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample XML: 
// Generate Parsing Code from XML

// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
// <result>
// 	<disbursement>123456</disbursement>
// </result>

int disbursement;
disbursement = xml.GetChildIntValue("disbursement");