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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Handle hoHttp
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoXml
    Variant vSbRequestBody
    Handle hoSbRequestBody
    Variant vResp
    Handle hoResp
    Variant vSbResponseBody
    Handle hoSbResponseBody
Response    Handle hoXmlResponse
    String sSoapenv_Envelope_xmlns_soapenv
    String sSoapenv_Envelope_xmlns
    String sApiCreatable
    String sApiDeletable
    String sApiReadable
    String sApiUpdatable
    String sTemp1
    Boolean bTemp1

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatHttp)) To hoHttp
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoHttp))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoHttp
    End

    // Use this online tool to generate code from sample XML: Generate Code to Create XML

    // The following XML is sent in the request body.

    // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    // <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:tns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    //     <soapenv:Header>
    //         <tns:SessionHeader>
    //             <tns:sessionId>{{_accessToken}}</tns:sessionId>
    //         </tns:SessionHeader>
    //     </soapenv:Header>
    //     <soapenv:Body>
    //         <tns:describeValueType>
    //             <type>{http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}INSERT_METADATA_TYPE_NAME</type>
    //         </tns:describeValueType>
    //     </soapenv:Body>
    // </soapenv:Envelope>
    // 

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatXml)) To hoXml
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoXml))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoXml
    End
    Set ComTag Of hoXml To "soapenv:Envelope"
    Get ComAddAttribute Of hoXml "xmlns:soapenv" "http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" To iSuccess
    Get ComAddAttribute Of hoXml "xmlns:tns" "http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata" To iSuccess
    Send ComUpdateChildContent To hoXml "soapenv:Header|tns:SessionHeader|tns:sessionId" "{{_accessToken}}"
    Send ComUpdateChildContent To hoXml "soapenv:Body|tns:describeValueType|type" "{http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}INSERT_METADATA_TYPE_NAME"

    Send ComSetRequestHeader To hoHttp "Content-Type" "text/xml"
    Send ComSetRequestHeader To hoHttp "SOAPAction" "login"
    Send ComSetRequestHeader To hoHttp "Accept" "text/xml"
    Send ComSetRequestHeader To hoHttp "charset" "UTF-8"

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatStringBuilder)) To hoSbRequestBody
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoSbRequestBody))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoSbRequestBody
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoSbRequestBody to vSbRequestBody
    Get ComGetXmlSb Of hoXml vSbRequestBody To iSuccess

    Get pvComObject of hoSbRequestBody to vSbRequestBody
    Get ComPTextSb Of hoHttp "POST" "https://domain.com/services/Soap/m/{{version}}" vSbRequestBody "utf-8" "text/xml" False False To vResp
    If (IsComObject(vResp)) Begin
        Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatHttpResponse)) To hoResp
        Set pvComObject Of hoResp To vResp
    End
    Get ComLastMethodSuccess Of hoHttp To bTemp1
    If (bTemp1 = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoHttp To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatStringBuilder)) To hoSbResponseBody
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoSbResponseBody))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoSbResponseBody
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoSbResponseBody to vSbResponseBody
    Get ComGetBodySb Of hoResp vSbResponseBody To iSuccess
    Send Destroy of hoResp

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatXml)) To hoXmlResponse
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoXmlResponse))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoXmlResponse
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoSbResponseBody to vSbResponseBody
    Get ComLoadSb Of hoXmlResponse vSbResponseBody True To iSuccess
    Get ComGetXml Of hoXmlResponse To sTemp1
    Showln sTemp1

    // Sample XML response:
    // (Sample code for parsing the XML response is shown below)

    // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    // <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    //     <soapenv:Body>
    //         <describeValueTypeResponse>
    //             <result>
    //                 <apiCreatable>false</apiCreatable>
    //                 <apiDeletable>false</apiDeletable>
    //                 <apiReadable>false</apiReadable>
    //                 <apiUpdatable>false</apiUpdatable>
    //             </result>
    //         </describeValueTypeResponse>
    //     </soapenv:Body>
    // </soapenv:Envelope>

    // Sample code for parsing the XML response...
    // Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample XML: Generate XML Parsing Code

    Get ComGetAttrValue Of hoXmlResponse "xmlns:soapenv" To sSoapenv_Envelope_xmlns_soapenv
    Get ComGetAttrValue Of hoXmlResponse "xmlns" To sSoapenv_Envelope_xmlns
    Get ComGetChildContent Of hoXmlResponse "soapenv:Body|describeValueTypeResponse|result|apiCreatable" To sApiCreatable
    Get ComGetChildContent Of hoXmlResponse "soapenv:Body|describeValueTypeResponse|result|apiDeletable" To sApiDeletable
    Get ComGetChildContent Of hoXmlResponse "soapenv:Body|describeValueTypeResponse|result|apiReadable" To sApiReadable
    Get ComGetChildContent Of hoXmlResponse "soapenv:Body|describeValueTypeResponse|result|apiUpdatable" To sApiUpdatable


End_Procedure

Curl Command

curl -X POST
	-H "Content-Type: text/xml"
	-H "charset: UTF-8"
	-H "SOAPAction: login"
	-H "Accept: text/xml"
	-d '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:tns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
	<soapenv:Header>
	<tns:SessionHeader>
		<tns:sessionId>{{_accessToken}}</tns:sessionId>
	</tns:SessionHeader>
	</soapenv:Header>
	<soapenv:Body>
		<tns:describeValueType>
			<type>{http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}INSERT_METADATA_TYPE_NAME</type>
		</tns:describeValueType>
	</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>'
https://domain.com/services/Soap/m/{{version}}

Postman Collection Item JSON

{
  "name": "SOAP DescribeValueType",
  "event": [
    {
      "listen": "test",
      "script": {
        "exec": [
          ""
        ],
        "type": "text/javascript"
      }
    }
  ],
  "request": {
    "auth": {
      "type": "noauth"
    },
    "method": "POST",
    "header": [
      {
        "key": "Content-Type",
        "name": "Content-Type",
        "value": "text/xml",
        "type": "text"
      },
      {
        "key": "charset",
        "value": "UTF-8"
      },
      {
        "key": "SOAPAction",
        "value": "login"
      },
      {
        "key": "Accept",
        "value": "text/xml",
        "type": "text"
      }
    ],
    "body": {
      "mode": "raw",
      "raw": "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:tns=\"http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata\">\n\t<soapenv:Header>\n\t<tns:SessionHeader>\n\t\t<tns:sessionId>{{_accessToken}}</tns:sessionId>\n\t</tns:SessionHeader>\n\t</soapenv:Header>\n\t<soapenv:Body>\n\t\t<tns:describeValueType>\n\t\t\t<type>{http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}INSERT_METADATA_TYPE_NAME</type>\n\t\t</tns:describeValueType>\n\t</soapenv:Body>\n</soapenv:Envelope>"
    },
    "url": {
      "raw": "{{_endpoint}}/services/Soap/m/{{version}}",
      "host": [
        "{{_endpoint}}"
      ],
      "path": [
        "services",
        "Soap",
        "m",
        "{{version}}"
      ]
    }
  },
  "response": [
    {
      "name": "Status200-Success",
      "originalRequest": {
        "method": "POST",
        "header": [
          {
            "key": "Content-Type",
            "value": "text/xml"
          },
          {
            "key": "charset",
            "value": "UTF-8"
          },
          {
            "key": "SOAPAction",
            "value": "login"
          },
          {
            "key": "Accept",
            "value": "text/xml"
          }
        ],
        "body": {
          "mode": "raw",
          "raw": "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns:tns=\"http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata\">\n\t<soapenv:Header>\n\t<tns:SessionHeader>\n\t\t<tns:sessionId>{{_accessToken}}</tns:sessionId>\n\t</tns:SessionHeader>\n\t</soapenv:Header>\n\t<soapenv:Body>\n\t\t<tns:describeValueType>\n\t\t\t<type>{http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}INSERT_METADATA_TYPE_NAME</type>\n\t\t</tns:describeValueType>\n\t</soapenv:Body>\n</soapenv:Envelope>"
        },
        "url": {
          "raw": "{{_endpoint}}/services/Soap/m/{{version}}",
          "host": [
            "{{_endpoint}}"
          ],
          "path": [
            "services",
            "Soap",
            "m",
            "{{version}}"
          ]
        }
      },
      "status": "OK",
      "code": 200,
      "_postman_previewlanguage": "xml",
      "header": [
        {
          "key": "Date",
          "value": "Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:25:45 GMT"
        },
        {
          "key": "Cache-Control",
          "value": "no-cache,must-revalidate,max-age=0,no-store,private"
        },
        {
          "key": "Content-Type",
          "value": "text/xml; charset=utf-8"
        },
        {
          "key": "Vary",
          "value": "Accept-Encoding"
        },
        {
          "key": "Content-Encoding",
          "value": "gzip"
        },
        {
          "key": "Transfer-Encoding",
          "value": "chunked"
        }
      ],
      "cookie": [
      ],
      "body": "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\" xmlns=\"http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata\">\n    <soapenv:Body>\n        <describeValueTypeResponse>\n            <result>\n                <apiCreatable>false</apiCreatable>\n                <apiDeletable>false</apiDeletable>\n                <apiReadable>false</apiReadable>\n                <apiUpdatable>false</apiUpdatable>\n            </result>\n        </describeValueTypeResponse>\n    </soapenv:Body>\n</soapenv:Envelope>"
    }
  ]
}