Affiliate Window API Help Please

**msd_luke** · 08-06-09

Hi All,

i signed up to the affiliate window API today but i know nothing of SOAP and an relly struggling with using the service.

i have downloaded the documentation and the php API client and have entered my id and pword in the constants.inc file but thats as far as ive got,

could someone please help me understand this service and how i can start making requests

thank you
Luke

**AdrianB** · 08-06-09

Hi Luke,

I'm Adrian, the Technical Manager over at ShopWindow. Please drop me an email with your affiliate details and any other initial information you can provide such as what/how you're planning to build using our ProductServe API etc... We can take it from there...

Kind regards,

Adrian (adrian.botelho@shopwindow.com)

**msd_luke** · 08-06-09

Hi Adrian,

have send an email

thanks
Luke

**dhiraj_dev** · 28-07-10

I need to develop an application in asp.net platform using Api

The Api requires Soap header authentication ,to which i have little knowledge

Please help me in this regard .Any code sample in Asp.net would be great

thanks in advance

**JulianGuppy** · 11-03-11

Originally Posted by dhiraj_dev

I need to develop an application in asp.net platform using Api

The Api requires Soap header authentication ,to which i have little knowledge

Please help me in this regard .Any code sample in Asp.net would be great

thanks in advance

Getting the Affiliate Window Api to work in .net is certainly a bit of a challenge. I used the AffiliateService API as I wanted to get hold of commission details (I haven't completed this work but I am making progress). First go to the URL
http://api.affiliatewindow.com/v3/AffiliateService?wsdl and download this file somewhere on your drive - normally when creating a web service you can just point at the url and discover the services that are ready - in this case however that doesnt work.

Then in your .net application Right click References and add a web reference (if you dont see web reference add a service reference first and then click advanced to get the web reference dialog box.

Where it says URL (for web address) instead in here put c:\downloads\affiliateService.wsdl (or wherever you saved it). This will allow the wsdl to be created. If you dont do it this way the .net will not correctly cope with the :soapenc that aw places on arrays.

Fill in a sensible name for the web reference name (up to you of course but I kept it in line with the product service api and named mine com.affiliateservice.com.core.v3

then When you have built your Reference.map and it compiles...

Add a suitable using statement to make life easier in your code

using com.affiliateservice.com.core.v3;
.
.
.
private void GetAW()
{
const string affiliateApiPassword = "YOUR48digitAffiliateServiceAPIKey";

// NB there are keys for datafeed, productservice and affiliateservice so make sure you pick the right one for the right service

var aw = new ApiService
{
UserAuthenticationValue = new UserAuthentication
{
iId = YOURAWID,
sPassword = affiliateApiPassword,
sType = UserType.affiliate
}
};

// obvious fill in your dates etc...
var transactionList = new getTransactionList
{
dStartDate = new DateTime(2011, 02, 01, 0, 0, 0, 0),
dEndDate = new DateTime(2011, 02, 28, 23, 59, 59, 999),
sDateType = DateType.transaction
};

// bit of XML craziness - because we have a namespace.. we have to create a document so that we can create a name space manager
var document = new XmlDocument();

// then add the namespace manager
var manager = new XmlNamespaceManager(document.NameTable);

// then add the aw namespace
manager.AddNamespace("ns1", "http://api.affiliatewindow.com/");

// Get the list of transactions
getTransactionListResponse response = aw.getTransactionList(transactionList);

// Did we get a resposnse
if (response != null)
{
// Have we got a transaction list returned?
if (response.getTransactionListReturn != null)
{
// yes, so Get the XML element array
ArrayOfTransaction z = response.getTransactionListReturn;
foreach (XmlElement thunk in z.Any)
{
// These are the transaction data type fields
// iId

XmlNode xmlNode = thunk.SelectSingleNode("//ns1:iId", manager);
if (xmlNode != null)
{
string aa = xmlNode.InnerText;
}

.
.
// up to you from this point you can select which fields you want to deal with etc..
// sStatus
// sType
// sIp
// bPaid
// iPaymentId
// sDeclinedReason
// iMerchantId
// fSaleAmount
// fCommissionAmount
// dClickDate
// dTransactionDate
// dValidationDate
// sClickRef
// sSearchSiteName
// sSearchSiteKeyword
// aTransactionParts (node with other items in it)
xmlNode = thunk.SelectSingleNode("//ns1:aTransactionParts", manager);
if(xmlNode!=null)
{
// This is another node that contains a ns1:TransactionPart
// sCommissionGroupName
// fSaleAmount
// iCommission
// sCommissionType
string aa = xmlNode.InnerXml;

// SelectSingleNode or ignore - up to what you want to do of course
}

}
}
}
}

// In summary using with .net is bloody awkward and difficult. The generated WSDL does not generate nice .net classes.

They are not set up for Open or WS-I compliant web services as they are geared towards php only

**shaunyb** · 24-10-11

Hi Julian,

Did you get your code working? I keep getting user authentication errors, even though i know my username/password is correct.

My Code is

**********************************************

Imports AffiliateWindow2.AffiliateWindowApi
Imports System.Xml

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim aw As New ApiService

Dim UserAuthenticationValue = New UserAuthentication

UserAuthenticationValue.iId = "101XXX"
UserAuthenticationValue.sPassword = "XXXXXX"
UserAuthenticationValue.sType = UserType.affiliate

Dim transactionList As New getTransactionList

transactionList.dStartDate = New DateTime(2011, 10, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0)
transactionList.dEndDate = New DateTime(2011, 10, 31, 23, 59, 59, 999)
transactionList.sDateType = DateType.transaction

Dim document As New XmlDocument

Dim manager As New XmlNamespaceManager(document.NameTable)
manager.AddNamespace("ns1", "http://api.affiliatewindow.com/")

Dim response As getTransactionListResponse = aw.getTransactionList(transactionList)

Console.WriteLine(response.getTransactionListCount Return)

Console.ReadLine()

End Sub

End Module

************************************************** ******

I keep getting the error on Dim response As getTransactionListResponse = aw.getTransactionList(transactionList) line.

If you have time to take a look that would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Shaun

**smallafiliate** · 20-12-11

If you still looking try - the change is highlighted and underlined

Imports AffiliateWindow2.AffiliateWindowApi
Imports System.Xml

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim aw As New ApiService

Dim UserAuthenticationValue = New UserAuthentication

UserAuthenticationValue.iId = "101XXX"
UserAuthenticationValue.sPassword = "XXXXXX"
UserAuthenticationValue.sType = UserType.affiliate

aw.UserAuthenticationValue = UserAuthenticationValue

Dim transactionList As New getTransactionList

transactionList.dStartDate = New DateTime(2011, 10, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0)
transactionList.dEndDate = New DateTime(2011, 10, 31, 23, 59, 59, 999)
transactionList.sDateType = DateType.transaction

Dim document As New XmlDocument

Dim manager As New XmlNamespaceManager(document.NameTable)
manager.AddNamespace("ns1", "http://api.affiliatewindow.com/")

Dim response As getTransactionListResponse = aw.getTransactionList(transactionList)

Console.WriteLine(response.getTransactionListCount Return)

Console.ReadLine()

Originally Posted by shaunyb

Hi Julian,

Did you get your code working? I keep getting user authentication errors, even though i know my username/password is correct.

My Code is

**********************************************

Imports AffiliateWindow2.AffiliateWindowApi
Imports System.Xml

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim aw As New ApiService

Dim UserAuthenticationValue = New UserAuthentication

UserAuthenticationValue.iId = "101XXX"
UserAuthenticationValue.sPassword = "XXXXXX"
UserAuthenticationValue.sType = UserType.affiliate

Dim transactionList As New getTransactionList

transactionList.dStartDate = New DateTime(2011, 10, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0)
transactionList.dEndDate = New DateTime(2011, 10, 31, 23, 59, 59, 999)
transactionList.sDateType = DateType.transaction

Dim document As New XmlDocument

Dim manager As New XmlNamespaceManager(document.NameTable)
manager.AddNamespace("ns1", "http://api.affiliatewindow.com/")

Dim response As getTransactionListResponse = aw.getTransactionList(transactionList)

Console.WriteLine(response.getTransactionListCount Return)

Console.ReadLine()

End Sub

End Module

************************************************** ******

I keep getting the error on Dim response As getTransactionListResponse = aw.getTransactionList(transactionList) line.

If you have time to take a look that would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Shaun