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TrifleJS

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How to obtain SOAP Request body in C# Web Services

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Microsoft left something out when designing web services, fortunately there is a nifty way to obtain the original SOAP request within a C# web service.

I’ve written an article on this topic before. Its possible to obtain the SOAP request body for logging purposes by using SoapExtensions. And that’s all well and good if you want to log the traffic between your SOAP web service and the outside world. But what if you want to change the behaviour of your web services based on the input that comes in?

Say for example, you want to validate your SOAP request against an XML schema to enforce additional validation than what comes out of the box with .NET by default.

The process is quite simple, you need to find the Request object and load the contents of little known property called ‘InputStream‘. You can mine the contents of the SOAP request and load them into an XML document easily as follows:

Creating an ‘Echo’ Soap Request

Using this technique we can create a simple Web Service that performs a simple ‘Echo’ of whatever you send into it. See the following code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Web;
using System.Xml;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.Services;
using System.Web.Services.Protocols;

namespace SoapRequestEcho
{
  [WebService(
  Namespace = "http://soap.request.echo.com/",
  Name = "SoapRequestEcho")]
  public class EchoWebService : WebService
  {
    [WebMethod(Description = "Echo Soap Request")]
    public XmlDocument EchoSoapRequest(int input)
    {
      // Initialize soap request XML
      XmlDocument xmlSoapRequest = new XmlDocument();
    
      // Get raw request body
      using (Stream receiveStream = HttpContext.Current.Request.InputStream)
      {
        // Move to begining of input stream and read
        receiveStream.Position = 0;
        using (StreamReader readStream = 
                               new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8))
        {
          // Load into XML document
          xmlSoapRequest.Load(readStream);
        }
      }
      // Return
      return xmlSoapRequest;
    }
  }
}

Testing our Soap Request

We can quickly test our SOAP request and check that we are processing whatever XML is being sent in and its coming out the other side untouched.

Next Steps: Performing Schema Validation

Now you can do what you want with your xmlSoapRequest object. It’ll contain exactly the same request as was sent into SOAP in the first place.

If you are after schema validation.The next step is to populate the xmlSoapRequest.Schemas property and then fire off the xmlSoapRequest.Validate() method.

Piece of cake.

ESPA Online Checkout

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E-commerce website featuring relaxation and skincare products by UK Spa design and management company. The project involved client checkout and ordering process embedded in existing Content Management solution.

 

Development of The Checkout Process

  • Enabling taxes and currency assignment based on IP address geo-location
  • Assigning and applying promotional codes,
  • Ajax-based interaction and shopping cart review
  • Payment and warehouse integration
  • Order confirmation email
  • Integration into existing Sitefinity CMS templating.
  • As well as several other related features..

ESPA Checkout

The Checkout Process – Part 2

  • VAT calculations on last minute changes
  • User Experience – Ajax accordion UI features
  • Credit card detail verification
  • Payment integration
  • Warehouse order forwarding

ESPA Payment

Developing the Shopping Experience

  • Integrating the bespoke ASP.NET shopping cart into the existing website
  • Developing enhanced user-experience components such as wishlist for favourite products
  • Reviewing and testing complete process

ESPA Shopping Experience

Designing Email Feedback

  • Creating suitable email layouts based on design specifications
  • Testing on email clients such Gmail, MSN, Outlook, Yahoo etc
  • Integrating with existing order system after warehouse confirmation

ESPA Order Email

Tracking and Logging User Access

  • Desigining object and database model for logging and user/product tracking
  • Integrating model into existing website infrastructure
  • Testing high usage volumes
  • Producing email reports looking at statistics on number of orders, products purchased etc

Logging SOAP Messages In .NET

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C# Web Services provide an easy interface to incoming SOAP data because the SOAP message has already been deserialised at the entry point of a WebMethod.

The downside is that sometimes you’ll need to have access to the full SOAP request: body, headers and everything for tasks such as diagnosing any errors (which message broke the web service) or providing graceful handling of third party web services.

At first you’d think that the Request object can provide this information with methods such as Request.BinaryRead() but unfortunately when you’re using SOAP all you get there is a querystring.

The solution here is to use the SOAP Extensions. Here is some sample code:

public class SoapMessageLogger : SoapExtension
{
//…
public override void ProcessMessage(SoapMessage message)
{
switch(message.Stage)
{
case SoapMessageStage.BeforeDeserialize:
LogResponse(message); break;
case SoapMessageStage.AfterSerialize:
LogResponse(message); break;

// Do nothing on other states
case SoapMessageStage.AfterDeserialize;
case SoapMessageStage.BeforeSerialize;
default: break;
}
}
//…
}

More info on this can be found here and here.

Nandos’ Intranet

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A central point of contact for all Nandos’ stores. From the central login page each user has a set of applications which they can launch automatically by just clicking on the icon.

Designing the Front Page Layout

  • 3-Column template using highly-colourful branding as per Nandos’ image.
  • Content is based on user profile with 3 types of users: Store Login, Area Manager Login, IT Login
  • Icon-Based navigation used for launching applications.
  • “Pass-though” authentication, user login parameters are forwarded to each application using HTTP POST
  • Login information and Noticeboard.

Nandos Intranet Point of Entry

Designing Application Layout for a Store

  • Sample screen for a Nandos Store Login
  • Menu contains customised options
  • Key item is “End Of Day” button that stands sepparate from the rest

Nandos Store Login

Putting it all together with a Content Management System

  • Site integrated into ActiveWeb CMS writte in ASP.NET
  • ASP.NET C# and XML/XSLT based templates to provide flexibility
  • CMS can add new application for users to launch as needed.