I'm inexperienced with Web Services and I'm trying my best to get this working based on readings on MSDN and here in stackoverflow. Obviously, I'm still not getting it since I still cannot get it working so I'm seeking help.
Here's what I've been doing and what I need to do:
I have a sample request and a proxy class and with these I need to send a request to a WS using C#
<soap:Header>
<AppDetails xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.example.com/websvc">
<AppName>Application1</AppName>
</AppDetails>
<userDetails xmlns='http://schemas.example.com/mysoap'>
<USER xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema' xmlns='http://schemas.example.com/user_schema'>
<userid>12345</userid>
<cid>100</cid>
</USER>
</userDetails>
</soap:Header>
<soap:Body>
<myRequest_getReport xmlns="http://schemas.example.com/websvc" docID="9999"/>
</soap:Body>
I've been having great success in creating the request via Fiddler because it's straighforward and I just need to fill in the values but I've been struggling for a week now in getting this to work in my code.
Here's the proxy class code:
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("wsdl", "4.0.30319.1")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace = "http://schemas.example.com/mysoap")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "http://schemas.example.com/mysoap", IsNullable = false)]
public partial class userDetails : System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHeader
{
private System.Xml.XmlElement any_u;
/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlAnyElementAttribute()]
public System.Xml.XmlElement Any
{
get
{
return this.any_u;
}
set
{
this.any_u = value;
}
}
}
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("wsdl", "4.0.30319.1")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace = "http://schemas.example.com/infrastructure/user_schema")]
public partial class USER
{
private uint userid_u;
private uint cid_u;
/// <remarks/>
public uint userid
{
get
{
return this.userid_u;
}
set
{
this.userid_u = value;
}
}
/// <remarks/>
public uint cid
{
get
{
return this.cid_u;
}
set
{
this.cid_u = value;
}
}
}
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("wsdl", "4.0.30319.1")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace = "http://schemas.example.com/websvc")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace = "http://schemas.example.com/websvc", IsNullable = false)]
public partial class AppDetails : System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHeader
{
private string appName_u;
/// <remarks/>
public string AppName
{
get
{
return this.appName_u;
}
set
{
this.appName_u = value;
}
}
}
And here's my code:
static void Main(string[] args)
{
myRequest req_server = new myRequest("myremoteserver", null); //connects to the server
// User
XmlElement UserIdentity = UserDetailsHeader();
req_server.userIdentityValue = new userDetails();
req_server.userIdentityValue.Any = UserIdentity;
// Application
//XmlElement appDataVal = AppDataHeader();
req_server.AppDataValue = new AppDetails();
req_server.AppDataValue.AppName = "Application1";
// Construct the request
myRequest_getReport docRequest = new myRequest_getReport();
}
private static XmlElement UserDetailsHeader()
{
USER myUser = new USER();
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(USER));
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(1024);
myUser.userid = 12345;
myUser.cid = 100;
xs.Serialize(ms, myUser);
ms.Position = 0;
XmlDocument xd = new XmlDocument();
xd.Load(ms);
return xd.DocumentElement;
}
private static XmlElement AppDataHeader()
{
AppDetails myApp = new AppDetails();
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(AppDetails));
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(1024);
myApp.AppName = "Application1";
xs.Serialize(ms, myApp);
ms.Position = 0;
XmlDocument xd = new XmlDocument();
xd.Load(ms);
return xd.DocumentElement;
}
As you can see in UserDetailsHeader(), I was able to set the values for userid and cid in USER. I also created AppDataHeader() but wasn't able to use it later since I later figure out I didn't have to but I included it here anyway in case there is a need.
I set the UserDetailsHeader() in main() as UserIdentity but when I execute the code, an exception is displayed saying "UserDetails is not defined." Obviously I'm missing something very important here and I want to know what it is.
Could you please point me to the right direction? I am very confused right now and I'm not even sure if my code makes sense. The code in UserDetailsHeader is based on my readings on how to create a SOAP header request in C#, I got this from an MSDN article which I cannot find right now.
