Post request to a service, get response ,validate response - c#

I am looking for a sample code to send request to a web service( SOAP) using C# .net
Get the response back and then validate the response automatically
Ex:http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/tempconvert.asmx?op=CelsiusToFahrenheit
Send celcius data to this web service and get some response back and then validate this response with expected values.
I am looking to do this programmatically using C# nunit framework
Does anyone have idea how to achieve this?

There should be no logic worth testing in the web service itself.
You cannot easily test the web service call, and nor should you. This is the responsibility of the Framework.
Your web service should be a wrapper around the class that does the real work. You would then unit test the class with the logic in, not the web service.
In your example, you should have a class who's responsibility it is to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius. The public method that does this would be covered by your unit tests.
The end point you call to actually perform the conversion (for example, the methods in your .asmx file) would simply call the code above.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using NUnit.Framework;
namespace Examples.System.Net
{
public class WebRequestPostExample
{
public static void Main()
{
String b = "OK";
// Create a request using a URL that can receive a post.
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("your end point here");
request.Headers.Add ("SOAPAction", "some soap action here");
request.ContentType = "text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"";
request.Accept = "text/xml";
request.Method = "POST";
// Set the Method property of the request to POST.
request.Method = "POST";
// Create POST data and convert it to a byte array.
string postData = #"<s:Envelope xmlns:s="Som request that you want to send";
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
Stream stream = request.GetRequestStream();
stream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
int a = 0;
stream.Close();
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Assert.AreEqual(response.StatusCode, b, "Pass");
Console.WriteLine(((HttpWebResponse)response).StatusDescription);

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Web API and WPF client

I've followed the following article to set up a simple Web API solution:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/350488/A-simple-POC-using-ASP-NET-Web-API-Entity-Framewor
I've omitted the Common project, Log4Net and Castle Windsor to keep the project as simple as possible.
Then I created a WPF project. However, now which project should I reference in order access the WebAPI and the underlying models?
Use the HttpWebRequest class to make request to the Web API. Below a quick sample for something I've used to make requests to some other restful service (that service only allowed POST/GET, and not DELETE/PUT).
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(actionUrl) as HttpWebRequest;
request.ContentType = "application/json";
if (postData.Length > 0)
{
request.Method = "POST"; // we have some post data, act as post request.
// write post data to request stream, and dispose streamwriter afterwards.
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream()))
{
writer.Write(postData);
writer.Close();
}
}
else
{
request.Method = "GET"; // no post data, act as get request.
request.ContentLength = 0;
}
string responseData = string.Empty;
using (HttpWebResponse response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)
{
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
responseData = reader.ReadToEnd();
reader.Close();
}
response.Close();
}
return responseData;
There are also a nuget package available called "Microsoft ASP.NET Web API client libraries" which can be used to make requests to the WebAPI. More on that package here(http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/web-api-clients/calling-a-web-api-from-a-net-client)

Bad Request when sending request to WCF Service?

When I use the methods below to send an xml request to an asmx service, it works fine, the only difference is is that the content type is application/soap+xml. I am getting the error: 400 Bad Request. Here is the method I am using below to send the request via HTTP Post to the WCF Service:
private static void SendRequest(string request)
{
var req = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create("http://urltoservice.svc");
req.ContentType = "text/xml";
req.Method = "POST";
using (var stm = req.GetRequestStream())
{
using (var stmw = new StreamWriter(stm))
{
stmw.Write(request);
}
}
byte[] myData;
using (var webResponse = req.GetResponse())
{
var responseStream = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
myData = ReadFully(responseStream);
}
// Do whatever you need with the response
string responseString = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(myData);
}
It seems to throw it at the line: var webResponse = req.GetResponse()
What is the type of service that you are trying to call. Is it REST WCF service or SOAP WCF Service?
You can monitor your request using Fiddler to see how your request looks when it works and when it doesnt.
Also enable Tracing on your service to know why you get a 400 Bad Request.
No idea why this works, if someone can explain it it would be great. I needed to append the method name to URI in order for it to work, for example,
http://urltoservice.svc/MethodToCall

C# HttpWebRequest with XML Structured Data

I'm developing the client-side of a third party webservice. The purpose is that I send xml-file to the server.
How should I attach the xml-file to the httpwebrequest? What contentType is needed? More suggestions?
I cannot use mtom or dime.ie because I am using httpwebrequest. I am unable to use WCF either.
Here is a very basic method of sending XML structured data using HttpWebRequest (by the way you need to use request.ContentType = "application/xml";) :
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(new Uri(myUrl));
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/xml";
request.Accept = "application/xml";
XElement redmineRequestXML =
new XElement("issue",
new XElement("project_id", 17)
);
byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(redmineRequestXML.ToString());
request.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
using (Stream putStream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
putStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
}
// Log the response from Redmine RESTful service
using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()))
{
Logger.Info("Response from Redmine Issue Tracker: " + reader.ReadToEnd());
}
I use this at one of my projects (NBug) to submit an issue report to my Redmine issue tracker which accepts XML structured data over web requests (via POST). If you need further examples, you can get a couple of fully featured examples here: http://nbug.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets (click 'Browse' under 'Latest Verion' label on the right then navigate to "NBug\Submit\Tracker\Redmine.cs")

Fetching data behind username/password authentication

I'd like to download some data from a forum. The page containing the data is visible only to registered users. Here's an example webpage containing user data;
http://www.bikeforums.net/member.php/227664-StackOverflow
I'd like to get the data using wget or C#. I tried logging in via Firefox, then passing the cookies file (hopefully containing the login information) to wget. That was more of a makeshift hack and not a real solution, but it still failed. How do I do this properly?
I set up an account for testing if that's helpful.
User: StackOverflow
Pass: so123
Using firebug you can easily get the POST data for the login page and use it to create a WebRequest and Login to the Forum.
The Server create the cookies for authentication and we can use this cookies in the next request on the forum page so the server can authenticate the request and return all the data.
Here I've tested a simple console application that achieves this mechanism.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Web;
using System.Net;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.XPath;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.IO;
namespace ConsoleApplication2
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
CookieContainer cookieContainer = new CookieContainer();
HttpWebRequest wpost = (HttpWebRequest) HttpWebRequest.Create("http://www.bikeforums.net/login.php?do=login");
wpost.CookieContainer = cookieContainer;
wpost.Method = "POST";
string postData = "do=login&vb_login_md5password=d93bd4ce1af6a9deccaf0ea844d6c05d&vb_login_md5password_utf=d93bd4ce1af6a9deccaf0ea844d6c05d&s=&securitytoken=guest&url=%2Fmember.php%2F227664-StackOverflow&vb_login_username=StackOverflow&vb_login_password=";
byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(postData);
// Set the ContentType property of the WebRequest.
wpost.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
// Set the ContentLength property of the WebRequest.
wpost.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
// Get the request stream.
System.IO.Stream dataStream = wpost.GetRequestStream();
// Write the data to the request stream.
dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
// Close the Stream object.
dataStream.Close();
// Get the response.
HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse) wpost.GetResponse();
// Request
wpost = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.bikeforums.net/member.php/227664-StackOverflow");
//Assing the cookies created on the server to the new request
wpost.CookieContainer = cookieContainer;
wpost.Method = "GET";
response = (HttpWebResponse)wpost.GetResponse();
Stream receiveStream = response.GetResponseStream();
// Pipes the stream to a higher level stream reader with the required encoding format.
StreamReader readStream = new StreamReader(receiveStream, Encoding.UTF8);
//Display the result to console...
Console.WriteLine(readStream.ReadToEnd());
response.Close();
readStream.Close();
Console.Read();
}
}
}

Programmatically call webmethods in C#

I'm trying to write a function that can call a webmethod from a webserive given the method's name and URL of the webservice. I've found some code on a blog that does this just fine except for one detail. It requires that the request XML be provided as well. The goal here is to get the request XML template from the webservice itself. I'm sure this is possible somehow because I can see both the request and response XML templates if I access a webservice's URL in my browser.
This is the code which calls the webmethod programmatically:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
//this is the problem. I need to get this automatically
doc.Load("../../request.xml");
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://localhost/dummyws/dummyws.asmx?op=HelloWorld");
req.ContentType = "text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"";
req.Accept = "text/xml";
req.Method = "POST";
Stream stm = req.GetRequestStream();
doc.Save(stm);
stm.Close();
WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse();
stm = resp.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader r = new StreamReader(stm);
Console.WriteLine(r.ReadToEnd());
Following on from the comments above. If you have a WSDL file that describes your service you use this as the information required to communicate with your web service.
Using a proxy class to communicate with your service proxy is an easy way to abstract yourself from the underlying plumbing of HTTP and XML.
There are ways of doing this at run-time - essentially generating the code that Visual Studio generates when you add a web service reference to your project.
I've used a solution that was based on: this newsgroup question, but there are also other examples out there.
FYI, your code is missing using blocks. It should be more like this:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
//this is the problem. I need to get this automatically
doc.Load("../../request.xml");
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://localhost/dummyws/dummyws.asmx?op=HelloWorld");
req.ContentType = "text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"";
req.Accept = "text/xml";
req.Method = "POST";
using (Stream reqstm = req.GetRequestStream())
{
doc.Save(reqstm);
}
using (WebResponse resp = req.GetResponse())
{
using (Stream respstm = resp.GetResponseStream())
{
using (StreamReader r = new StreamReader(respstm))
{
Console.WriteLine(r.ReadToEnd());
}
}
}

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