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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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Pascal (Lazarus/Delphi)
program ChilkatDemo;

// Demonstrates using the Chilkat Pascal wrapper via the C bridge DLL.
// Builds as a console application under Lazarus (FPC) or Delphi.

{$IFDEF FPC}
  {$MODE DELPHI}
{$ENDIF}
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  {$IFDEF UNIX}
  cthreads,
  {$ENDIF}
  SysUtils,
  CkDllLoader,
  Chilkat.StringBuilder,
  Chilkat.Rest,
  Chilkat.Xml;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

procedure RunDemo;
var
  success: Boolean;
  rest: TRest;
  bTls: Boolean;
  port: Integer;
  bAutoReconnect: Boolean;
  xml: TXml;
  sbRequestBody: TStringBuilder;
  sbResponseBody: TStringBuilder;
  respStatusCode: Integer;
  xmlResponse: TXml;
  resultEncoded: string;
  sbResult: TStringBuilder;
  xmlResult: TXml;

begin
  success := False;

  rest := TRest.Create;

  //  URL: http://www.mnb.hu/arfolyamok.asmx
  bTls := False;
  port := 80;
  bAutoReconnect := True;
  success := rest.Connect('www.mnb.hu',port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
  if (success <> True) then
    begin
      WriteLn('ConnectFailReason: ' + rest.ConnectFailReason);
      WriteLn(rest.LastErrorText);
      Exit;
    end;

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

  xml := TXml.Create;
  xml.Tag := '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');

  sbRequestBody := TStringBuilder.Create;
  xml.GetXmlSb(sbRequestBody);
  sbResponseBody := TStringBuilder.Create;
  success := rest.FullRequestSb('POST','/arfolyamok.asmx',sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody);
  if (success <> True) then
    begin
      WriteLn(rest.LastErrorText);
      Exit;
    end;
  respStatusCode := rest.ResponseStatusCode;
  if (respStatusCode >= 400) then
    begin
      WriteLn('Response Status Code = ' + respStatusCode);
      WriteLn('Response Header:');
      WriteLn(rest.ResponseHeader);
      WriteLn('Response Body:');
      WriteLn(sbResponseBody.GetAsString());
      Exit;
    end;

  WriteLn('response status code = ' + respStatusCode);

  xmlResponse := TXml.Create;
  xmlResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody,True);
  WriteLn(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');
  WriteLn(resultEncoded);

  //  Entity decode the result to get XML.
  sbResult := TStringBuilder.Create;
  sbResult.Append(resultEncoded);
  sbResult.EntityDecode();

  //  Load it into XML.
  xmlResult := TXml.Create;
  xmlResult.LoadSb(sbResult,True);
  WriteLn(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>
  //  


  rest.Free;
  xml.Free;
  sbRequestBody.Free;
  sbResponseBody.Free;
  xmlResponse.Free;
  sbResult.Free;
  xmlResult.Free;

end;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

begin

  try
    RunDemo;
  except
    on E: Exception do
      WriteLn('Unhandled exception: ', E.ClassName, ': ', E.Message);
  end;

  WriteLn;
  {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS}
  WriteLn('Press Enter to exit...');
  ReadLn;
  {$ENDIF}
end.