Web services are everywhere such as SOAP requests, WCF services and traditional ASMX asp.net web services. I was working on a task recently we needed to call a SOAP service from a powershell script. A good friend of mine passed this snippet to me. If you want to test SOAP requests, using SOAP UI This allows you to build soap requests. Hope this helps.
These return XML objects with the server’s response.
function Execute-SOAPRequest
(
[Xml] $SOAPRequest,
[String] $URL
)
{
write-host “Sending SOAP Request To Server: $URL”
$soapWebRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($URL)
$soapWebRequest.Headers.Add(“SOAPAction”,”`”`””)
$soapWebRequest.ContentType = “text/xml;charset=`”utf-8`””
$soapWebRequest.Accept = “text/xml”
$soapWebRequest.Method = “POST”
write-host “Initiating Send.”
$requestStream = $soapWebRequest.GetRequestStream()
$SOAPRequest.Save($requestStream)
$requestStream.Close()
write-host “Send Complete, Waiting For Response.”
$resp = $soapWebRequest.GetResponse()
$responseStream = $resp.GetResponseStream()
$soapReader = [System.IO.StreamReader]($responseStream)
$ReturnXml = [Xml] $soapReader.ReadToEnd()
$responseStream.Close()
write-host “Response Received.”
return $ReturnXml
}
function Execute-SOAPRequestFromFile
(
[String] $SOAPRequestFile,
[String] $URL
)
{
write-host “Reading and converting file to XmlDocument: $SOAPRequestFile”
$SOAPRequest = [Xml](Get-Content $SOAPRequestFile)
return $(Execute-SOAPRequest $SOAPRequest $URL)
}
Enjoy,
Steve Schofield
Microsoft MVP – IIS
2 Comments
Babul Mukherjee said
I just got back from the bookstore thinking about Powershell and SOAP. What perfect timing. Thanks for the snippet!!
Ozzie said
With the release of Powershell v3 a really easier way to post a SOAP request is available. For details, you can visit this post: http://rambletech.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/posting-soap-request-from-windows-powershell/