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Alabama Motor Fuel Excise Tax E-Filing SOAP XML POST (NewSubmission)

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Demonstrates how to post a NewSubmission to the Alabama MFET (Motor Fuel Excise Tax) e-File.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

#  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.
#  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#  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.
$sbXmlFileData = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $sbXmlFileData.LoadFile("qa_data/xml/AL_SR_999802_test.xml","utf-8")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $("Failed to load XML file.")
    exit
}

$sbXmlFileData.Encode("base64","utf-8")

#  Build the XMl that will be the body of the HTTP request.
$xml = New-Object 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")
$xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:File",$sbXmlFileData.GetAsString())

$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http

$http.SetRequestHeader("SoapAction","NewSubmission")

$sbXml = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$xml.GetXmlSb($sbXml)

$resp = New-Object Chilkat.HttpResponse
$success = $http.HttpSb("POST","https://mattest.alabama.gov/WebServices/MFET/",$sbXml,"utf-8","text/xml",$resp)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($http.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Response status code = " + $resp.StatusCode)
$("Response body text:")
$($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:
$xmlResult = New-Object Chilkat.Xml
$xmlResult.LoadXml($resp.BodyStr)
$sbResult = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$sbResult.Append($xmlResult.GetChildContent("s:Body|NewSubmissionResponse|NewSubmissionResult"))
$sbResult.Decode("base64","utf-8")
$("Decoded result:")
$($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>