Progresso SOAP

[DavidShields]

anyone have a VB.net (VS2013) example of consuming the SOAP api ?

[mikecampbell]

Can't help you on the VB front. I'm currently working on some Ruby integration but it's been a bit of a nightmare getting my head around WCF. Pretty much got the requests down now, but unable to get any of the parameters described in the API docs working. My Ruby SOAP client produces the following XML for the request (to GetStaff for instance):

 

 
   https://api.progresso.net/Services/PerCall/StaffRecord.svc
   
   http://tempuri.org/IProgressoMis/GetStaff
 
 
   
     Active
   
 

 

However, it returns all staff no matter what I change the to (and there's no error, it's as though it's being completely ignored). Same applies for other methods/parameters. Don't s'pose anyone with experience of the API can shed any light on how I need to format these filter params? Would be very grateful.

 

(P.S. Didn't mean to hijack your thread, but thought it would be better here than a new thread)

[mikecampbell]

Scratch that, sorted it. After digging through the WSDL imports, it appears that the input parameters are named like "p_status", etc, and need the tns namespace too, so

Active

worked. I'm guessing .NET WCF libraries work all this stuff out for you.