Sample code to consume UNData API in C#

Hi,

Recently we were working on an application that had to fetch country specific details. For this we used the UNData API.

http://data.un.org/Host.aspx?Content=API

We can make use of SDMX Browser in helping us to write a query

http://data.un.org/SdmxBrowser/start

Create a console app\windows application and add web reference to the following web service

http://data.un.org/WS/NSIEstatV20Service.asmx

Below is the sample C# Code

string queryMsg = @"<message:QueryMessage
xsi:schemaLocation='http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/SDMXMessage.xsd
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/%20SDMXMessage.xsd'
xmlns:generic='http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/generic'
xmlns:message='http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/message'
xmlns:query='http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/query'
xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'>
<message:Header>
<message:ID>onh14833545733929527</message:ID>
<message:Test>false</message:Test>
<message:Prepared>2017-01-01</message:Prepared>
<message:Sender id='online-help'/>
</message:Header>
<message:Query>
<query:DataWhere>
<query:And>
<query:Dimension id='INDICATOR'>SP_POP_TOTL</query:Dimension>
<query:Dimension id='AGE'>_T</query:Dimension>
<query:Dimension id='SEX'>_T</query:Dimension>
<query:Dimension id='LOCATION'>_T</query:Dimension>
<query:Dimension id='REF_AREA'>IND</query:Dimension>
<query:Time>
<query:StartTime>2014-01-02</query:StartTime>
<query:EndTime>2017-01-02</query:EndTime>
</query:Time>
<query:Dataflow>DF_UNDATA_WPP</query:Dataflow>
</query:And>
</query:DataWhere>
</message:Query>
</message:QueryMessage>";
NSIEstatV20Service service = new NSIEstatV20Service();
System.Xml.XmlDocument queryMessageDocument = new XmlDocument();
queryMessageDocument.LoadXml(queryMsg);
System.Xml.XmlNode queryMessage = queryMessageDocument.DocumentElement;
var result = service.GetCompactData(queryMessage);
MessageBox.Show(result.InnerXml);

The output

The query here basically returns the Total population of India

Hope it helps..

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