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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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Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

# 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.
set sbXmlFileData [new_CkStringBuilder]

set success [CkStringBuilder_LoadFile $sbXmlFileData "qa_data/xml/AL_SR_999802_test.xml" "utf-8"]
if {$success != 1} then {
    puts "Failed to load XML file."
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbXmlFileData
    exit
}

CkStringBuilder_Encode $sbXmlFileData "base64" "utf-8"

# Build the XMl that will be the body of the HTTP request.
set xml [new_CkXml]

CkXml_put_Tag $xml "soapenv:Envelope"
CkXml_AddAttribute $xml "xmlns:soapenv" "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
CkXml_AddAttribute $xml "xmlns:tem" "http://tempuri.org/"
CkXml_AddAttribute $xml "xmlns:xsd" "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
CkXml_AddAttribute $xml "xmlns:xsi" "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
CkXml_UpdateChildContent $xml "soapenv:Header" ""
CkXml_UpdateChildContent $xml "soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:UserName" "yourusername"
CkXml_UpdateChildContent $xml "soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:Password" "yourpassword"
CkXml_UpdateAttrAt $xml "soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:File" 1 "xsi:type" "xsd:base64Binary"
CkXml_UpdateChildContent $xml "soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:File" [CkStringBuilder_getAsString $sbXmlFileData]

set http [new_CkHttp]

CkHttp_SetRequestHeader $http "SoapAction" "NewSubmission"

set sbXml [new_CkStringBuilder]

CkXml_GetXmlSb $xml $sbXml

set resp [new_CkHttpResponse]

set success [CkHttp_HttpSb $http "POST" "https://mattest.alabama.gov/WebServices/MFET/" $sbXml "utf-8" "text/xml" $resp]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkHttp_lastErrorText $http]
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbXmlFileData
    delete_CkXml $xml
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbXml
    delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
    exit
}

puts "Response status code = [CkHttpResponse_get_StatusCode $resp]"
puts "Response body text:"
puts [CkHttpResponse_bodyStr $resp]

# 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:
set xmlResult [new_CkXml]

CkXml_LoadXml $xmlResult [CkHttpResponse_bodyStr $resp]
set sbResult [new_CkStringBuilder]

CkStringBuilder_Append $sbResult [CkXml_getChildContent $xmlResult "s:Body|NewSubmissionResponse|NewSubmissionResult"]
CkStringBuilder_Decode $sbResult "base64" "utf-8"
puts "Decoded result:"
puts [CkStringBuilder_getAsString $sbResult]

# 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>

delete_CkStringBuilder $sbXmlFileData
delete_CkXml $xml
delete_CkHttp $http
delete_CkStringBuilder $sbXml
delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
delete_CkXml $xmlResult
delete_CkStringBuilder $sbResult