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Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) Get Currencies

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The Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) is the central bank of Hungary. In this role, its primary objective is to achieve and maintain price stability. The MNB website is available to visitors in both Hungarian and English. The MNB provides the Arfolyam (trans. Exchange Rate) API, which can be used to retrieve current and historic currency exchange rates. This service uses SOAP calls issued in XML format.

This example gets a list of currencies.

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VBScript
Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

set rest = CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' URL: http://www.mnb.hu/arfolyamok.asmx
bTls = 0
port = 80
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("www.mnb.hu",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("ConnectFailReason: " & rest.ConnectFailReason)
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

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

set xml = CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")
xml.Tag = "soapenv:Envelope"
success = xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:soapenv","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/")
success = xml.AddAttribute("xmlns:web","http://www.mnb.hu/webservices/")
xml.UpdateChildContent "soapenv:Header",""
xml.UpdateChildContent "soapenv:Body|web:GetCurrencies",""

success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","text/xml")
success = rest.AddHeader("SOAPAction","/webservices/MNBArfolyamServiceSoap/GetCurrencies")
success = rest.AddHeader("Accept","application/xml")

set sbRequestBody = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = xml.GetXmlSb(sbRequestBody)
set sbResponseBody = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/arfolyamok.asmx",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("Response Status Code = " & respStatusCode)
    outFile.WriteLine("Response Header:")
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.ResponseHeader)
    outFile.WriteLine("Response Body:")
    outFile.WriteLine(sbResponseBody.GetAsString())
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("response status code = " & respStatusCode)

set xmlResponse = CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")
success = xmlResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody,1)
outFile.WriteLine(xmlResponse.GetXml())

' The XML response contains this:
' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
' <s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
'     <s:Body>
'         <GetCurrenciesResponse xmlns="http://www.mnb.hu/webservices/" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
'             <GetCurrenciesResult>&lt;MNBCurrencies&gt;&lt;Currencies&gt;&lt;Curr&gt;HUF&lt;/Curr&gt;&lt;Curr&gt;EUR&lt;/Curr&gt;&lt;Curr&gt;AUD&lt;/Curr&gt; ... &lt;/MNBCurrencies&gt;</GetCurrenciesResult>
'         </GetCurrenciesResponse>
'     </s:Body>
' </s:Envelope>

' Get the GetCurrenciesResult
resultEncoded = xmlResponse.GetChildContent("s:Body|GetCurrenciesResponse|GetCurrenciesResult")
outFile.WriteLine(resultEncoded)

' Entity decode the result to get XML.
set sbResult = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbResult.Append(resultEncoded)
success = sbResult.EntityDecode()

' Load it into XML.
set xmlResult = CreateObject("Chilkat.Xml")
success = xmlResult.LoadSb(sbResult,1)
outFile.WriteLine(xmlResult.GetXml())

' The result is this:

' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
' <MNBCurrencies>
'     <Currencies>
'         <Curr>HUF</Curr>
'         <Curr>EUR</Curr>
'         <Curr>AUD</Curr>
'         <Curr>BGN</Curr>
'         <Curr>BRL</Curr>
'         <Curr>CAD</Curr>
'         <Curr>CHF</Curr>
'         <Curr>CNY</Curr>
'         <Curr>CZK</Curr>
'         <Curr>DKK</Curr>
'         <Curr>GBP</Curr>
'         <Curr>HKD</Curr>
'         <Curr>HRK</Curr>
'         <Curr>IDR</Curr>
'         <Curr>ILS</Curr>
'         <Curr>INR</Curr>
'         <Curr>ISK</Curr>
'         <Curr>JPY</Curr>
'         <Curr>KRW</Curr>
'         <Curr>MXN</Curr>
'         <Curr>MYR</Curr>
'         <Curr>NOK</Curr>
'         <Curr>NZD</Curr>
'         <Curr>PHP</Curr>
'         <Curr>PLN</Curr>
'         <Curr>RON</Curr>
'         <Curr>RSD</Curr>
'         <Curr>RUB</Curr>
'         <Curr>SEK</Curr>
'         <Curr>SGD</Curr>
'         <Curr>THB</Curr>
'         <Curr>TRY</Curr>
'         <Curr>UAH</Curr>
'         <Curr>USD</Curr>
'         <Curr>ZAR</Curr>
'         <Curr>ATS</Curr>
'         <Curr>AUP</Curr>
'         <Curr>BEF</Curr>
'         <Curr>BGL</Curr>
'         <Curr>CYN</Curr>
'         <Curr>CSD</Curr>
'         <Curr>CSK</Curr>
'         <Curr>DDM</Curr>
'         <Curr>DEM</Curr>
'         <Curr>EEK</Curr>
'         <Curr>EGP</Curr>
'         <Curr>ESP</Curr>
'         <Curr>FIM</Curr>
'         <Curr>FRF</Curr>
'         <Curr>GHP</Curr>
'         <Curr>GRD</Curr>
'         <Curr>IEP</Curr>
'         <Curr>ITL</Curr>
'         <Curr>KPW</Curr>
'         <Curr>KWD</Curr>
'         <Curr>LBP</Curr>
'         <Curr>LTL</Curr>
'         <Curr>LUF</Curr>
'         <Curr>LVL</Curr>
'         <Curr>MNT</Curr>
'         <Curr>NLG</Curr>
'         <Curr>OAL</Curr>
'         <Curr>OBL</Curr>
'         <Curr>OFR</Curr>
'         <Curr>ORB</Curr>
'         <Curr>PKR</Curr>
'         <Curr>PTE</Curr>
'         <Curr>ROL</Curr>
'         <Curr>SDP</Curr>
'         <Curr>SIT</Curr>
'         <Curr>SKK</Curr>
'         <Curr>SUR</Curr>
'         <Curr>VND</Curr>
'         <Curr>XEU</Curr>
'         <Curr>XTR</Curr>
'         <Curr>YUD</Curr>
'     </Currencies>
' </MNBCurrencies>
' 

outFile.Close