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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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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Rest;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.StringBuilder;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Xml;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Rest rest = new Rest();

        // URL: http://www.mnb.hu/arfolyamok.asmx
        boolean bTls = false;
        int port = 80;
        boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
        try {
            rest.connect("www.mnb.hu", port, bTls, bAutoReconnect);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println("ConnectFailReason: " + rest.getConnectFailReason());
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

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

        Xml xml = new Xml();
        xml.setTag("soapenv:Envelope");
        xml.addAttribute("xmlns:soapenv", "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/");
        xml.addAttribute("xmlns:web", "http://www.mnb.hu/webservices/");
        xml.updateChildContent("soapenv:Header", "");
        xml.updateChildContent("soapenv:Body|web:GetCurrencies", "");

        rest.addHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml");
        rest.addHeader("SOAPAction", "/webservices/MNBArfolyamServiceSoap/GetCurrencies");
        rest.addHeader("Accept", "application/xml");

        StringBuilder sbRequestBody = new StringBuilder();
        xml.getXmlSb(sbRequestBody);
        StringBuilder sbResponseBody = new StringBuilder();
        try {
            rest.fullRequestSb("POST", "/arfolyamok.asmx", sbRequestBody, sbResponseBody);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        int respStatusCode = rest.getResponseStatusCode();
        if (respStatusCode >= 400) {
            System.out.println("Response Status Code = " + respStatusCode);
            System.out.println("Response Header:");
            System.out.println(rest.getResponseHeader());
            System.out.println("Response Body:");
            System.out.println(sbResponseBody.getAsString());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("response status code = " + respStatusCode);

        Xml xmlResponse = new Xml();
        xmlResponse.loadSb(sbResponseBody, true);
        System.out.println(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
        String resultEncoded = xmlResponse.getChildContent("s:Body|GetCurrenciesResponse|GetCurrenciesResult");
        System.out.println(resultEncoded);

        // Entity decode the result to get XML.
        StringBuilder sbResult = new StringBuilder();
        sbResult.append(resultEncoded);
        sbResult.entityDecode();

        // Load it into XML.
        Xml xmlResult = new Xml();
        xmlResult.loadSb(sbResult, true);
        System.out.println(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>
        //
    }
}