(C# UWP/WinRT) 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.

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 = await http.PostXmlAsync("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>