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Sample Code to consume UNData API using JavaScript

Sharing a sample code that can be used to consume UNData API

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

The below code fetches the population data for country India.

Sample Code


var xmlHttp;
// creatng the xmlHttp object
xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
// Calling the web service using post and true means asynchronous call
xmlHttp.open("POST", "http://data.un.org/WS/NSIEstatV20Service.asmx", false);

// Setting the request header to let the web service find the soap request we would be sending
xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/extended/GetCompactData");

var soapRequest = "<!--?<span class="hiddenSpellError" pre="" data-mce-bogus="1"-->xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>"+
"<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'>"+
"<soap:Body>"+
"<GetCompactData xmlns='http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/extended'>"+
"<Query>"+
"<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'>DEU</query:Dimension>" +
"<query:Dimension id='SCENARIO'>H</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>"+
"</Query>"+
"</GetCompactData>"+
"</soap:Body>" +
"</soap:Envelope>";

xmlHttp.send(soapRequest);
var xmlDoc = jQuery.parseXML(xmlHttp.responseText);
var popValue = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('ns1:Obs')['0'].attributes['OBS_VALUE'].nodeValue;
alert("Total Population " + popValue);

Output


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<soap:Body><GetCompactDataResponse
xmlns="http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sri/service/2.0/extended">
<GetCompactDataResult>
<CompactData
xmlns:ns1="urn:sdmx:org.sdmx.infomodel.datastructure.DataStructure
=UNSD:DSD_WPP_UNDATA(1.0):ObsLevelDim:TIME_PERIOD"
xmlns="http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/message"
xmlns:common="http://www.SDMX.org/resources/SDMXML/schemas/v2_0/common"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xml="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"><Header>
<ID>DF_UNDATA_WPP</ID><Test>false</Test><Prepared>2017-01-06T08:25:46
</Prepared>
<Sender id="1B0">
<Name xml:lang="en">United Nations Statistics Division</Name>
<Contact><Email>statistics@un.org</Email></Contact></Sender>
<KeyFamilyRef>DSD_WPP_UNDATA</KeyFamilyRef><KeyFamilyAgency>UNSD
</KeyFamilyAgency><DataSetAgency>UNSD</DataSetAgency>
<DataSetID>DF_UNDATA_WPP_1B0_2017-01-06T082546</DataSetID>
<DataSetAction>Information</DataSetAction>
<Extracted>2017-01-06T08:25:46</Extracted>
<Source xml:lang="en">
United Nations Population Division World Population Prospects</Source>
</Header>
<ns1:DataSet DATASET_NAME="World Population Prospects"
DATASET_SOURCE="United Nations Population Division"
DATASET_DESC="The United Nations World Population Prospects contains estimates and projections for every country in the world, including estimates and projections of demographic indicators such as birth rates, deaths rates, infant mortality rates and life expectancy." UNDATA_LASTUPDATE="20 Aug 2013" UNDATA_NEXTUPDATE="2015 release" METADATA="http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm"><ns1:Series AGE="_T" FREQ="A" INDICATOR="SP_POP_TOTL" LOCATION="_T" SEX="_T" REF_AREA="DEU" SCENARIO="H"><ns1:Obs TIME_PERIOD="2015" OBS_VALUE="83178.615" UNIT="NUMBER" UNIT_MULT="3" TIME_SPAN="2015" /></ns1:Series></ns1:DataSet></CompactData></GetCompactDataResult></GetCompactDataResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Hope it helps.

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..

Solved: The remote server returned an error: (413) Request Entity Too Large in WCF Service.

Hi,

Recently created a WCF Service to be used for file upload.

Was getting the below error for large file

Setting the binding in the following manner fixed the issue


<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"
maxBufferSize="2147483647"
maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="32"
maxArrayLength="2147483647"
maxStringContentLength="2147483647"/>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>

Hope it helps..

Missing Windows Authentication Provider in IIS 8 in Windows 8 or Windows 8.1

Was hosting a WCF Service in IIS on my machine.

Realized that Windows Authentication option was missing.

To add it, go to

Control Panel à Program Features à Turn Windows Features On and Off

Enable Windows Authentication.

Hope it helps

Configure a WCF Service for Windows Authentication

Hi,

Sharing a simple example on how to enable Windows Authentication for a WCF Service using basicHttpBinding.

We will take an example of the OOB WCF Service that gets created when we create a new WCF Service Application.

Add the following configuration in web.config


<system.serviceModel>
<services>
<service name="WcfService2.Service1">
<endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" bindingConfiguration="myBinding" contract="WcfService2.IService1"/>
</service>
</services>
<bindings>
<basicHttpBinding>
<binding name="myBinding" maxBufferSize="2147483647" maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647">
<readerQuotas maxDepth="2147483647" maxStringContentLength="2147483647" maxArrayLength="2147483647" maxBytesPerRead="2147483647" maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647"/>
<security mode="TransportCredentialOnly">
<transport clientCredentialType="Windows"/>
</security>
</binding>
</basicHttpBinding>
</bindings>
<behaviors>
<serviceBehaviors>
<behavior>
<!-- To avoid disclosing metadata information, set the values below to false before deployment -->
<serviceMetadata httpGetEnabled="true" httpsGetEnabled="true"/>
<!-- To receive exception details in faults for debugging purposes, set the value below to true. Set to false before deployment to avoid disclosing exception information -->
<serviceDebug includeExceptionDetailInFaults="false"/>
</behavior>
</serviceBehaviors>
</behaviors>
<protocolMapping>
<add binding="basicHttpsBinding" scheme="https" />
</protocolMapping>
<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true" multipleSiteBindingsEnabled="true" />
</system.serviceModel>

&nbsp;

And enable Windows Authentication in IIS

Hope it helps ..

405 error – Method not allowed error while calling WCF service inside Plugin in CRM 2011.

Hi,

Recenlty we wrote a plugin that was calling a WCF Rest Service. The plugin was registered on Pre Create of an entity. Here if we were creating the entity record through web interface, the plugin was running fine.

However if we had that plugin being triggered by another plugin (the other plugin was creating the entity record triggering this particular plugin) we were getting “405 – method not allowed” error.

As it turned out the WCF service was getting confused regarding the operation context when being called by another plugin.

Specifying the OperationContextScope fixed the issue.

Original Code

</pre>
using (
 var webChannelFactory =
 new WebChannelFactory<IAutoNumber>(
 new Uri(dictionaryConfigSettings[Constants.AutoNumberServiceUrl])))
 {
 IAutoNumber referralOffer = webChannelFactory.CreateChannel();

// get the next number from sequence
 autoNumber = Constants.PrefixReferralOfferNumber +
 AddPadding(
 referralOffer.GetNextNumber(Constants.EntityNameReferralOffer),
 Constants.PrefixReferralOfferNumberLength);
 }
<pre>

The modified code

</pre>
using (
 var webChannelFactory =
 new WebChannelFactory<IAutoNumber>(
 new Uri(dictionaryConfigSettings[Constants.AutoNumberServiceUrl])))
 {
 IAutoNumber referralOffer = webChannelFactory.CreateChannel();

using (new OperationContextScope((IContextChannel)referralOffer))
 {
 // get the next number from sequence
 autoNumber = Constants.PrefixReferralOfferNumber +
 AddPadding(
 referralOffer.GetNextNumber(Constants.EntityNameReferralOffer),
 Constants.PrefixReferralOfferNumberLength);
 }

}
<pre>

The helpful post

http://www.rgoarchitects.com/nblog/CommentView,guid,26d9b30e-c441-4776-9778-4dfdab58bd3d.aspx

Hope it helps.