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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. Unicode C++

#include <CkStringBuilderW.h>
#include <CkXmlW.h>
#include <CkHttpW.h>
#include <CkHttpResponseW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool 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.
    CkStringBuilderW sbXmlFileData;
    success = sbXmlFileData.LoadFile(L"qa_data/xml/AL_SR_999802_test.xml",L"utf-8");
    if (success != true) {
        wprintf(L"Failed to load XML file.\n");
        return;
    }

    sbXmlFileData.Encode(L"base64",L"utf-8");

    // Build the XMl that will be the body of the HTTP request.
    CkXmlW xml;
    xml.put_Tag(L"soapenv:Envelope");
    xml.AddAttribute(L"xmlns:soapenv",L"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
    xml.AddAttribute(L"xmlns:tem",L"http://tempuri.org/");
    xml.AddAttribute(L"xmlns:xsd",L"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema");
    xml.AddAttribute(L"xmlns:xsi",L"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
    xml.UpdateChildContent(L"soapenv:Header",L"");
    xml.UpdateChildContent(L"soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:UserName",L"yourusername");
    xml.UpdateChildContent(L"soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:Password",L"yourpassword");
    xml.UpdateAttrAt(L"soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:File",true,L"xsi:type",L"xsd:base64Binary");
    xml.UpdateChildContent(L"soapenv:Body|tem:NewSubmission|tem:File",sbXmlFileData.getAsString());

    CkHttpW http;

    http.SetRequestHeader(L"SoapAction",L"NewSubmission");

    CkStringBuilderW sbXml;
    xml.GetXmlSb(sbXml);

    CkHttpResponseW resp;
    success = http.HttpSb(L"POST",L"https://mattest.alabama.gov/WebServices/MFET/",sbXml,L"utf-8",L"text/xml",resp);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",http.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"Response status code = %d\n",resp.get_StatusCode());
    wprintf(L"Response body text:\n");
    wprintf(L"%s\n",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:
    CkXmlW xmlResult;
    xmlResult.LoadXml(resp.bodyStr());
    CkStringBuilderW sbResult;
    sbResult.Append(xmlResult.getChildContent(L"s:Body|NewSubmissionResponse|NewSubmissionResult"));
    sbResult.Decode(L"base64",L"utf-8");
    wprintf(L"Decoded result:\n");
    wprintf(L"%s\n",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>
    }