VB.NET

effectconnect Product Update

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Use this call to update a product (f.e. stock or price) in EffectConnect. VB.NET

Dim success As Boolean = False

' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim uri As String = "/products"
Dim apiVersion As String = "2.0"

Dim http As New Chilkat.Http
Dim req As New Chilkat.HttpRequest

' Use your effectconnect public key here...
req.AddHeader("KEY","PUBLIC_KEY")
req.AddHeader("VERSION",apiVersion)
req.AddHeader("URI",uri)
req.AddHeader("RESPONSETYPE","XML")
req.AddHeader("RESPONSELANGUAGE","en")

' Get the current date/time in timestamp format.
Dim dt As New Chilkat.CkDateTime
dt.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()
Dim timestamp As String = dt.GetAsTimestamp(True)

req.AddHeader("TIME",timestamp)
Debug.WriteLine("timestamp = " & timestamp)

Dim sbXml As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = sbXml.LoadFile("qa_data/xml/effectconnect/effconUpdate.xml","utf-8")
Debug.WriteLine("length = " & sbXml.Length)

req.HttpVerb = "PUT"
req.Path = uri
req.ContentType = "multipart/form-data"
success = req.AddStringForUpload("payload","effconUpdate.xml",sbXml.GetAsString(),"utf-8")
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(req.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' Build a string-to-sign and sign it using our effectconnect private key
Dim sbStringToSign As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
sbStringToSign.AppendInt(sbXml.Length)
sbStringToSign.Append("PUT")
sbStringToSign.Append(uri)
sbStringToSign.Append(apiVersion)
sbStringToSign.Append(timestamp)

Dim crypt As New Chilkat.Crypt2
crypt.MacAlgorithm = "hmac"
crypt.HashAlgorithm = "sha512"
crypt.EncodingMode = "base64"
' Use your effectconnect private key here:
crypt.SetMacKeyString("PRIVATE_KEY")
req.AddHeader("SIGNATURE",crypt.MacStringENC(sbStringToSign.GetAsString()))

Dim resp As New Chilkat.HttpResponse
success = http.HttpSReq("submit.effectconnect.com",443,True,req,resp)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Debug.WriteLine("response status code = " & resp.StatusCode)

' Examine the response.  The response status code can be 200 for both errors and success.
' The success or error is based on the XML returned in the response body.
Dim xmlResp As New Chilkat.Xml
xmlResp.LoadXml(resp.BodyStr)

Debug.WriteLine("response body:")
Debug.WriteLine(xmlResp.GetXml())

' A sample response:

' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
' <ApiResponseContainer>
'     <Request>
'         <RequestType>Products</RequestType>
'         <RequestAction>Update</RequestAction>
'         <RequestVersion>2.0</RequestVersion>
'         <RequestIdentifier/>
'         <ProcessedAt>2019-04-18T15:37:32+02:00</ProcessedAt>
'     </Request>
'     <Response>
'         <Result>Success</Result>
'         <ProductsUpdateResponseContainer>
'             <ProcessID><![CDATA[f81ngzD2S7gooFk3]]></ProcessID>
'         </ProductsUpdateResponseContainer>
'     </Response>
' </ApiResponseContainer>
' 

Dim tagPath As String
Dim RequestType As String
Dim RequestAction As String
Dim RequestVersion As String
Dim ProcessedAt As String
Dim Result As String
Dim ProcessID As String

RequestType = xmlResp.GetChildContent("Request|RequestType")
RequestAction = xmlResp.GetChildContent("Request|RequestAction")
RequestVersion = xmlResp.GetChildContent("Request|RequestVersion")
ProcessedAt = xmlResp.GetChildContent("Request|ProcessedAt")
Result = xmlResp.GetChildContent("Response|Result")
ProcessID = xmlResp.GetChildContent("Response|ProductsUpdateResponseContainer|ProcessID")