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93.3. Creating Entities and Transactions Using the API
All "set web services" take the same data structure that the "get web service" uses. Also, when you pass in a Random GUID to the get web service, it will return you an empty data set with all the structure you need to save a new record.
The other part that is missing is that there is a parameter on the getReceiptInfo called: strReceiptFromType. This parameter accepts the following values: "INDIVIDUAL", "LEGISLATOR", "COMPANY", "POLITICALCOMMITTEE". Note that casing does not matter but politicalcommittee has to be spelled without a space between political and committee.
Let's say you want to save a new Receipt to an Existing individual, the code would look like the following:
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//Get All Individuals With "Williams in their Name" getIndivdiualInfoWS.getIndividualInformationWebService getIndindividual = new getIndivdiualInfoWS.getIndividualInformationWebService();
DataSet dsResult = getIndindividual.searchKeyword("Williams", UserName, Password) ;
//Take GUID from First Individual From Result List:
DataRow drwFirst = dsResult.Tables["std_Individual"].Rows[0] ;
String strFirstIndividualGUID = drwFirst["ind_GUID"].toString();
//ADD New Receipt to Individual Above String strRandomReceiptGUID = System.Guid.NewGUID().toString(); DataSet dsNewReceipt = getTransactionInfoWS.getReceiptDetail(strRandomReceiptGUID, strFirstIndividualGUID, "INDIVIDUAL");
//Create New Receipt Row: DataRow drwNewReceipt = dsNewReceipt.Tables["std_Receipt"].newRow();
//Edit your receipt: drwNewReceipt["rcp_GUID"] = System.Guid.NewGUID().toString(); drwNewReceipt["rcp_Amount"] = 200.00 ; drwNewReceipt["rcp_Date"] = "01/01/2010"; drwNewReceipt["rcp_Deleted"] = 0; drwNewReceipt["rcp_CreatedOn"] = "01/01/2010"; drwNewReceipt["rcp_CreatedBy"] = System.Guid.NewGUID().toString();
//Add New Row back to Receipt Dataset: dsNewReceipt.Tables["std_Receipt"].Rows.Add(drwNewReceipt);
//Call SetReceiptDetail Web Service to save new Receipt to Database: setTransactionInfoWS.setReceiptDetail(dsNewReceipt); |
For review:
To Update an Existing Entity:
1. Call get Web Service with known Entity's GUID
2. Edit the Returned Dataset
3. Call set Web Service
To Create a new Entity:
1. Call get Web Service with Random New GUID
2. Add New Row to Dataset Returned by Web Service
3. Call set Web Service