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Vimal

Date: Nov 19, 2009
Web Response Issues
  
 

Hi,
    First of all, I am very much impressed with IFBY Phone... Good Works...
Now the problem:
I am in need of getting the status of the call. For this I used normal way of web request/response... But i got stuck in 1 place, where the response is obsolete...

The code snipped i used:
HttpWebRequest oWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(strURL.ToString()) as HttpWebRequest;
HttpWebResponse oWebResponse = oWebRequest.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse;
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(oWebResponse.GetResponseStream(), Encoding.UTF8))
{
strResult = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
File.WriteAllText("C:\\Save9.xml", strResult);

For a single phone number call it is giving the correct xml output. Whereas if it is multiple phone numbers, the response is not perfect...

Output 1: Single Phone number:
Working properly...

Output 2:3 Phone numbers
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1'?>
<!DOCTYPE data [
  <!ELEMENT data (record+)>
  <!ELEMENT record ()>
]>
<data>
</data>

the actual web response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>

  <!DOCTYPE data (View Source for full doctype...)>
- <data>
- <record>
  <Scheduled_Time>2009-10-06 14:26:00</Scheduled_Time>
  <Actual_Time>2009-10-06 14:26:18</Actual_Time>
  <Delay_if_Any>00:00:18</Delay_if_Any>
  <Number_Called>8627037335</Number_Called>
  <Result_of_Call>Answered</Result_of_Call>
  <Response_ID />
  <Broadcast_ID>5071161</Broadcast_ID>
  <Broadcast_Parameters>usr_survey_id=84431</Broadcast_Parameters>
  </record>
- <record>
  <Scheduled_Time>2009-10-06 14:28:00</Scheduled_Time>
  <Actual_Time>2009-10-06 14:28:37</Actual_Time>
  <Delay_if_Any>00:00:37</Delay_if_Any>
  <Number_Called>2222222222</Number_Called>
  <Result_of_Call>Busy signal, max attempts reached</Result_of_Call>
  <Response_ID />
  <Broadcast_ID>5071161</Broadcast_ID>
  <Broadcast_Parameters>usr_survey_id=84431</Broadcast_Parameters>
  </record>
- <record>
  <Scheduled_Time>2009-10-06 14:30:00</Scheduled_Time>
  <Actual_Time>2009-10-06 14:30:33</Actual_Time>
  <Delay_if_Any>00:00:33</Delay_if_Any>
  <Number_Called>8627037335</Number_Called>
  <Result_of_Call>Answered</Result_of_Call>
  <Response_ID />
  <Broadcast_ID>5071161</Broadcast_ID>
  <Broadcast_Parameters>usr_survey_id=84431</Broadcast_Parameters>
  </record>
  </data>

Hope you understood my problem clearly... If anything required, please revert to me!
-Vimal.



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KhyleK


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Date: Nov 19, 2009
  
 

Vimal -

I'm not sure I understand exactly what the issue is. The XML you posted looks ok to me. So your code snippet is having a hard time parsing it - is that what is happening?

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Vimal


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Date: Nov 19, 2009
  
 

Hi,
Can you see the 2 different XML i posted? Here again for your reference,

Output:

]>


This is the output i am getting it for the actual xml[posted above], from the webresponse.

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Vimal


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Date: Nov 20, 2009
  
 

Hi,
I tried to paste that xml, but it is not pasted perfectly. The question is, if i use the url to get the status like this,

https://secure.ifbyphone.com/ibp_api.php?api_key=API_KEY&action=report.broadcast&start_date=2009-10-08&end_date=2009-10-08&broadcast_id=5118021

No.of calls scheduled on this broadcast id =1 then everything fine...

if No.Of Calls scheduled = 3 then the webresponse object is not giving the perfect xml.


Regards,
Vimal.

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KhyleK


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Date: Nov 20, 2009
  
 

Vimal - can you please email me your account number? I will take a look directly, and see what I can find out.

kkeys AT ifbyphone DOT com

Thanks,
Khyle

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Vimal


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Date: Nov 20, 2009
  
 

User Id: <edited out>
Plz send me the code snippet to parse the response also...

-- Edited by KhyleK on Friday 20th of November 2009 08:51:19 AM

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KhyleK


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Date: Nov 20, 2009
  
 

Vimal - I tested URL calls with some of your broadcasts that have 3 broadcasts, and the XML I get back is valid.

I do not have sample XML parsing code for .Net - but you can learn more about it at a couple of the links below:

http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/dot-net-xml/2

http://www.expertrating.com/courseware/DotNetCourse/DotNet-ASP.Net-10-1.asp

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Vimal


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Date: Nov 20, 2009
  
 

Thanks for your reply!
I tried this code snippet which was suggested by IfByPhone for asp: [Modified according to Asp.net]
HttpWebRequest oWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(strURL);
            HttpWebResponse oWebResponse = (HttpWebResponse)oWebRequest.GetResponse();
            StreamReader oStreamReader = new StreamReader(oWebResponse.GetResponseStream());
            String strRes = oStreamReader.ReadToEnd();

XmlDocument xDoc = new XmlDocument();
                xDoc.LoadXml(strRes);
                XmlNode oRoot = xDoc.DocumentElement;
                String strXMLNode = oRoot.OuterXml;

Can you just try this code from your end, please advice me to do some modifications in it...



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Vimal


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Date: Nov 20, 2009
  
 

Hi, 1 more hint... there is no problem with the XML parsing... I guess it is from webresponse.
I displayed the web response for this url, it gave me 157, whereas if i pass the single response url it is giving 957...

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KhyleK


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Date: Nov 20, 2009
  
 

Vimal - Can you clarify the last post?

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Anonymous

Date: Nov 22, 2009
  
 

Hi,
I mean to say, the content length of the web response is 157 for the URL i gave. but for the url which is having single phone number response the content length is 957... It means there is no content coming from response thats why xml looks blank.

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Vimal


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Date: Nov 24, 2009
  
 

Hi,
Any chance of finding the issue from your end!
I tried all the possible ways to pull out the web response but nothing worked out!

Regards,
Vimal.

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KhyleK


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Date: Nov 24, 2009
  
 

Vimal - I am having trouble recreating the behavior you are seeing. Can you send me an email (see above) with the actual URLs and the exact responses? When I hit the URLs - I saw the expected XML.

Thanks

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Vimal


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Date: Nov 25, 2009
  
 

Hi,
No problem while hitting the url in the browser... but while taking the response from code i am facing the issue!!!

Regards,
Vimal.

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KhyleK


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Date: Nov 25, 2009
  
 

Vimal - in order to help you, I will need the details I asked for above. As I mentioned, I cannot replicate the issue on my side. Can you please email me the exact URLs and responses? Thanks.

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Email sent!

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