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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.Chilkat VB.NET Downloads
Dim success As Boolean = 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.
Dim sbXmlFileData As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = sbXmlFileData.LoadFile("qa_data/xml/AL_SR_999802_test.xml","utf-8")
If (success <> True) Then
Debug.WriteLine("Failed to load XML file.")
Exit Sub
End If
sbXmlFileData.Encode("base64","utf-8")
' Build the XMl that will be the body of the HTTP request.
Dim xml As New 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())
Dim http As New Chilkat.Http
http.SetRequestHeader("SoapAction","NewSubmission")
Dim sbXml As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
xml.GetXmlSb(sbXml)
Dim resp As New Chilkat.HttpResponse
success = http.HttpSb("POST","https://mattest.alabama.gov/WebServices/MFET/",sbXml,"utf-8","text/xml",resp)
If (success = False) Then
Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
Exit Sub
End If
Debug.WriteLine("Response status code = " & resp.StatusCode)
Debug.WriteLine("Response body text:")
Debug.WriteLine(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:
Dim xmlResult As New Chilkat.Xml
xmlResult.LoadXml(resp.BodyStr)
Dim sbResult As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
sbResult.Append(xmlResult.GetChildContent("s:Body|NewSubmissionResponse|NewSubmissionResult"))
sbResult.Decode("base64","utf-8")
Debug.WriteLine("Decoded result:")
Debug.WriteLine(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>