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LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loXml
LOCAL loSbRequestBody
LOCAL loResp
LOCAL loSbResponseBody
LOCAL loXmlResponse
LOCAL lcSoapenv_Envelope_xmlns_soapenv
LOCAL lcSoapenv_Envelope_xmlns
LOCAL lcApiCreatable
LOCAL lcApiDeletable
LOCAL lcApiReadable
LOCAL lcApiUpdatable
* This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
* See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Http')
loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')
* 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>
*
* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Xml')
loXml = CreateObject('Chilkat.Xml')
loXml.Tag = "soapenv:Envelope"
loXml.AddAttribute("xmlns:soapenv","http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/")
loXml.AddAttribute("xmlns:tns","http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata")
loXml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Header|tns:SessionHeader|tns:sessionId","{{_accessToken}}")
loXml.UpdateChildContent("soapenv:Body|tns:describeValueType|type","{http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata}INSERT_METADATA_TYPE_NAME")
loHttp.SetRequestHeader("Content-Type","text/xml")
loHttp.SetRequestHeader("SOAPAction","login")
loHttp.SetRequestHeader("Accept","text/xml")
loHttp.SetRequestHeader("charset","UTF-8")
* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder')
loSbRequestBody = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loXml.GetXmlSb(loSbRequestBody)
loResp = loHttp.PTextSb("POST","https://domain.com/services/Soap/m/{{version}}",loSbRequestBody,"utf-8","text/xml",0,0)
IF (loHttp.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
? loHttp.LastErrorText
RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loXml
RELEASE loSbRequestBody
CANCEL
ENDIF
* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder')
loSbResponseBody = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loResp.GetBodySb(loSbResponseBody)
RELEASE loResp
* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.Xml')
loXmlResponse = CreateObject('Chilkat.Xml')
loXmlResponse.LoadSb(loSbResponseBody,1)
? loXmlResponse.GetXml()
* 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
lcSoapenv_Envelope_xmlns_soapenv = loXmlResponse.GetAttrValue("xmlns:soapenv")
lcSoapenv_Envelope_xmlns = loXmlResponse.GetAttrValue("xmlns")
lcApiCreatable = loXmlResponse.GetChildContent("soapenv:Body|describeValueTypeResponse|result|apiCreatable")
lcApiDeletable = loXmlResponse.GetChildContent("soapenv:Body|describeValueTypeResponse|result|apiDeletable")
lcApiReadable = loXmlResponse.GetChildContent("soapenv:Body|describeValueTypeResponse|result|apiReadable")
lcApiUpdatable = loXmlResponse.GetChildContent("soapenv:Body|describeValueTypeResponse|result|apiUpdatable")
RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loXml
RELEASE loSbRequestBody
RELEASE loSbResponseBody
RELEASE loXmlResponse
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>"
}
]
}
