(PowerShell) Simple SOAP Request

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Demonstrates how to send a simple SOAP request.

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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

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

# Create the following XML to be sent in the SOAP request body.

# <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:dat="http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
#     <soapenv:Header/>
#     <soapenv:Body>
#         <dat:NumberToDollars>
#             <dat:dNum>99.0</dat:dNum>
#         </dat:NumberToDollars>
#     </soapenv:Body>
# </soapenv:Envelope>

$xml = New-Object Chilkat.Xml
$xml.Tag = "soapenv:Envelope"
$xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:dat","http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/")
$xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:soapenv","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/")
$xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Header","")
$xml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Body|dat:NumberToDollars|dat:dNum","99.0")

# In a SOAP HTTP request, including the XML declaration (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>) in the XML body is generally not required. 
$xml.EmitXmlDecl = $false
$soapRequestBody = $xml.GetXml()

$endpoint = "https://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/numberconversion.wso"
$soapAction = ""
#  For SOAP requests, the standard Content-Type is usually set to "text/xml" or "application/soap+xml"
$contentType = "text/xml"

$http = New-Object Chilkat.Http

$http.ClearHeaders()
$http.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type",$contentType)
$http.SetRequestHeader("SOAPAction",$soapAction)

$resp = $http.PostXml($endpoint,$soapRequestBody,"utf-8")
if ($http.LastMethodSuccess -eq $false) {
    $($http.LastErrorText)
    $("Failed to send SOAP request.")
    exit
}

# Get the XML response body.
$responseXml = New-Object Chilkat.Xml
$resp.GetBodyXml($responseXml)

$statusCode = $resp.StatusCode
$("response status code: " + $statusCode)

# If the status code does not indicate succcess, then show the response XML,
# which probably contains error information.
if ($statusCode -ne 200) {
    $($responseXml.GetXml())
    exit
}

$($responseXml.GetXml())

# Parse the successful SOAP response XML.

# This is a sample of the response XML, but the namespace prefixes will be different.
# We can parse the result using "*" for the namespace prefixes (see below).

# <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:dat="http://www.dataaccess.com/webservicesserver/" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
#     <soapenv:Header/>
#     <soapenv:Body>
#         <dat:NumberToDollarsResponse>
#             <dat:NumberToDollarsResult>string</dat:NumberToDollarsResult>
#         </dat:NumberToDollarsResponse>
#     </soapenv:Body>
# </soapenv:Envelope>

$dat_NumberToDollarsResult = $responseXml.GetChildContent("*:Body|*:NumberToDollarsResponse|*:NumberToDollarsResult")
$("result: " + $dat_NumberToDollarsResult)