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HTTP SOAP 1.1 Request and Response using POST

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Demonstrates a working SOAP 1.1 request and response using POST with a live server. You may try running this example with the URLs and data provided. See http://secure.smartbearsoftware.com/samples/testcomplete10/webservices/Service.asmx?WSDL for details

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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    -- 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.
    -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- Generate the following XML:

    -- <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:smar="http://smartbear.com">
    --    <soapenv:Header/>
    --    <soapenv:Body>
    --       <smar:HelloWorld/>
    --    </soapenv:Body>
    -- </soapenv:Envelope>

    DECLARE @soapXml int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Xml', @soapXml OUT

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @soapXml, 'Tag', 'soapenv:Envelope'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @soapXml, 'AddAttribute', @success OUT, 'xmlns:soapenv', 'http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @soapXml, 'AddAttribute', @success OUT, 'xmlns:smar', 'http://smartbear.com'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @soapXml, 'UpdateChildContent', NULL, 'soapenv:Header', ''
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @soapXml, 'UpdateChildContent', NULL, 'soapenv:Body|smar:HelloWorld', ''

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @soapXml, 'GetXml', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    DECLARE @req int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpRequest', @req OUT

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @req, 'HttpVerb', 'POST'
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @req, 'SendCharset', 0
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'Content-Type', 'text/xml; charset=utf-8'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'SOAPAction', 'http://smartbear.com/HelloWorld'
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @req, 'Path', '/samples/testcomplete10/webservices/Service.asmx'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @soapXml, 'GetXml', @sTmp0 OUT
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'LoadBodyFromString', @success OUT, @sTmp0, 'utf-8'

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'FollowRedirects', 1

    DECLARE @resp int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpResponse', @resp OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'HttpSReq', @success OUT, 'secure.smartbearsoftware.com', 443, 1, @req, @resp
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @soapXml
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
        RETURN
      END

    DECLARE @xmlResponse int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Xml', @xmlResponse OUT

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xmlResponse, 'LoadXml', @success OUT, @sTmp0
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xmlResponse, 'GetXml', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    -- A successful XML response:

    -- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    -- <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    --     <soap:Body>
    --         <HelloWorldResponse xmlns="http://smartbear.com">
    --             <HelloWorldResult>Hello World</HelloWorldResult>
    --         </HelloWorldResponse>
    --     </soap:Body>
    -- </soap:Envelope>

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @soapXml
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @xmlResponse


END
GO