(Go) Making SOAP Requests using the REST API

There's no reason a SOAP request cannot be sent using the REST API. It's only a matter of adding a SOAP specific header, and providing the SOAP XML request body. The response body is the SOAP response XML.

This example sends a request to ws.cdyne.com to get city weather by zip code.

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    // Demonstrates how to do a SOAP request using the REST API.

    // 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.
    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    rest := chilkat.NewRest()

    // This is the request to be sent:

    // POST /WeatherWS/Weather.asmx HTTP/1.1
    // Host: wsf.cdyne.com
    // Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
    // Content-Length: length
    // SOAPAction: "http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/GetCityWeatherByZIP"
    // 
    // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    // <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
    //   <soap:Body>
    //     <GetCityWeatherByZIP xmlns="http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/">
    //       <ZIP>string</ZIP>
    //     </GetCityWeatherByZIP>
    //   </soap:Body>
    // </soap:Envelope>

    // Note: The application does not need to set the Host or Content-Length headers.
    // Chilkat will automatically add these headers.

    // Make the initial connection (without sending a request yet).
    bTls := false
    port := 80
    bAutoReconnect := true
    // In this particular case, it is important to connect to "wsf.cdyne.com", not "ws.cdyne.com"...
    success := rest.Connect("wsf.cdyne.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(rest.LastErrorText())
        rest.DisposeRest()
        return
    }

    // Add request headers:
    success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","text/xml; charset=utf-8")
    success = rest.AddHeader("SOAPAction","http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/GetCityWeatherByZIP")

    // Build the SOAP XML request body.
    soapXml := chilkat.NewXml()

    soapXml.SetTag("soap:Envelope")
    success = soapXml.AddAttribute("xmlns:xsi","http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance")
    success = soapXml.AddAttribute("xmlns:xsd","http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema")
    success = soapXml.AddAttribute("xmlns:soap","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/")

    soapXml.NewChild2("soap:Body","")
    success = soapXml.GetChild2(0)
    soapXml.NewChild2("GetCityWeatherByZIP","")
    success = soapXml.GetChild2(0)
    success = soapXml.AddAttribute("xmlns","http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/")
    soapXml.NewChild2("ZIP","60187")
    soapXml.GetRoot2()

    fmt.Println(*soapXml.GetXml())

    // Send the SOAP request
    responseXml := rest.FullRequestString("POST","/WeatherWS/Weather.asmx",*soapXml.GetXml())
    if rest.LastMethodSuccess() != true {
        fmt.Println(rest.LastErrorText())
        rest.DisposeRest()
        soapXml.DisposeXml()
        return
    }

    // When successful, the response status code will equal 200.
    if rest.ResponseStatusCode() != 200 {
        // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
        fmt.Println("response status code = ", rest.ResponseStatusCode())
        fmt.Println("response status text = ", rest.ResponseStatusText())
        fmt.Println("response header: ", rest.ResponseHeader())
        fmt.Println("response body (if any): ", *responseXml)
        fmt.Println("---")
        fmt.Println("LastRequestStartLine: ", rest.LastRequestStartLine())
        fmt.Println("LastRequestHeader: ", rest.LastRequestHeader())
        rest.DisposeRest()
        soapXml.DisposeXml()
        return
    }

    xml := chilkat.NewXml()
    success = xml.LoadXml(*responseXml)

    // GetXml will emit XML that is nicely indented for human viewing..
    fmt.Println(*xml.GetXml())

    // A sample response XML is shown below...

    // To get some information, use ChilkatPath.  For example...
    fmt.Println("Temperature: ", *xml.ChilkatPath("soap:Body|GetCityWeatherByZIPResponse|GetCityWeatherByZIPResult|Temperature|*"))

    fmt.Println("Success.")

    // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    // <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    //     <soap:Body>
    //         <GetCityWeatherByZIPResponse xmlns="http://ws.cdyne.com/WeatherWS/">
    //             <GetCityWeatherByZIPResult>
    //                 <Success>true</Success>
    //                 <ResponseText>City Found</ResponseText>
    //                 <State>IL</State>
    //                 <City>Wheaton</City>
    //                 <WeatherStationCity>West Chicago</WeatherStationCity>
    //                 <WeatherID>10</WeatherID>
    //                 <Description>Mostly Sunny</Description>
    //                 <Temperature>33</Temperature>
    //                 <RelativeHumidity>39</RelativeHumidity>
    //                 <Wind>VRB5</Wind>
    //                 <Pressure>30.33F</Pressure>
    //                 <Visibility />
    //                 <WindChill />
    //                 <Remarks />
    //             </GetCityWeatherByZIPResult>
    //         </GetCityWeatherByZIPResponse>
    //     </soap:Body>
    // </soap:Envelope>

    rest.DisposeRest()
    soapXml.DisposeXml()
    xml.DisposeXml()