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12-22-2010
04:16 PM
Andrew,
How can I view what you replied on the webservice ticket? I have not received anything from them.
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12-20-2010
06:48 PM
Andrew,
We have received your sample converted it and it is working great. Do you have a sample of the uploading of a csv file to a list? (multipart/form-data)
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12-14-2010
09:33 PM
Andrew,
Yes, I only use the dataset becuase that is what I have always done and it has always worked until this read. Please send me the code.
Very Much Appreciated.
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12-14-2010
02:22 PM
Andrew,
The vb.net (3.5) dataset xml reader will not read the response returned by the uri. That's what lead me to try and parse out the counts, but that would be a thing that nightmares are made of. When we try and read the response into our dataset xml reader we get an illegal character in path error. Do you have any suggestions on this or do you know of another way we can get the counts we need?
I very much appreiate your help with this!
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12-13-2010
02:22 PM
Andrew,
We re not getting the same xml as your example when we do an HTTP GET to your suggested uri. Here is a sample of the uri we used and below it is a sample of the string returned:
No where in the returned string is there any counts or count tags.
https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/our use name/campaigns/1103693687862
http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/our user name/campaigns/1103693687862 2010-10-04T23:10:15.530Z Constant Contact 2010 Q3 New Template Sent 2010-10-04T23:10:15.530Z 2010-09-17T01:14:24.247Z 2010-10-04T23:10:15.493Z 104 23 6 18 0 1 0 http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Latest-Edition-of-efsNews--With-New-Easy-to-Read-Look-.html?soid=1101594189982&aid=OpunUx1WtAk Latest Edition of efsNews (With New Easy-to-Read Look)
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12-09-2010
01:35 PM
Andrew,
When we view the responseText returned, it appears as if we are not getting all the text. But even more interesting is that it appears to be text from the email that was sent. There are no Bounce, Optout, Send, or Open counts in the responseText.
Could you please verify the uri format you gave use should be returning counts? If not please provide the correct format.
Thank you very much,
Charles
Dim responseStream As Stream = theResponse.GetResponseStream()
Dim streamReader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(responseStream)
Dim responseText As String = streamReader.ReadToEnd
Dim contents As String = responseText.ToString()
If contents.Length = 0 Then Exit Sub
lblContent.Text = contents.ToString()
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12-08-2010
07:21 PM
Andrew,
We were excited for a moment, but we get the same error as we had previously;
Can you take a look and make a suggestion?
Thank you,
We also tried viewing the responseText and did not see any counts in the string returned:
Dim responseStream As Stream = theResponse.GetResponseStream()
Dim streamReader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(responseStream)
Dim responseText As String = streamReader.ReadToEnd
Dim contents As String = responseText.ToString
If contents.Length = 0 Then Exit Sub
lblContents.Text = contents.ToString()
Nested table 'link' which inherits its namespace cannot have multiple parent tables in different namespaces.
We tried your suggested uri below, using our code also listed below. This is where we get the error.
https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/{username}/campaigns/{campaignID}
Dim sUri As String = "https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/" & ctu & "/campaigns/" & strCampaignID
Dim sAPIKey As String = "???????"
'setup httpWebReqeust to send the request
Dim address As New Uri(sUri)
Dim theRequest As HttpWebRequest = TryCast(WebRequest.Create(address), HttpWebRequest)
theRequest.Credentials = New NetworkCredential((sAPIKey & "%" & ctu), ctp)
theRequest.Method = "GET"
theRequest.ContentType = "application/vnd.ctct+xml"
Using theResponse As HttpWebResponse = TryCast(theRequest.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
'load dataset with xml response
Dim xtr As New XmlTextReader(theResponse.GetResponseStream())
xtr.ReadString()
Dim dscte As New DataSet()
dscte.ReadXml(xtr)
'Create the xml file to check what we are receiving.
dscte.WriteXml("C:\Documents\Data.xml")
End Using
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12-07-2010
10:44 PM
Ben,
We use asp.net and vb.net, so we typically use a dataset to read the xml responses from an api. This has served us well until we had to read your event xml response with nested links. So we found a way around it by parsing out the email addresses from the response returned by bounces, opens, sends, etc.. and doing a count in code. But now that we know that a response will only return 50 eamils at time. I'm not sure how we will get the next group of emails and add them to the previous or previous groups.
We are simply trying to dispaly the results of a selected email on our asp.net web page.
Anything you can sare would be very appreciated.
Dim sUri As String = "https://api.constantcontact.com" & strURI
Dim sAPIKey As String = "?????"
'setup httpWebReqeust to send the request
Dim address As New Uri(sUri)
Dim theRequest As HttpWebRequest = TryCast(WebRequest.Create(address), HttpWebRequest)
theRequest.Credentials = New NetworkCredential((sAPIKey & "%" & ctu), ctp)
theRequest.Method = "GET"
theRequest.ContentType = "application/vnd.ctct+xml"
Using theResponse As HttpWebResponse = TryCast(theRequest.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
Dim responseStream As Stream = theResponse.GetResponseStream()
Dim streamReader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(responseStream)
Dim responseText As String = streamReader.ReadToEnd
Dim contents As String = responseText.ToString
If contents.Length = 0 Then Exit Sub
' search for email addresses
Dim i As Integer = 0
Dim intCount As Integer = 0
Dim emails As String()
Dim email As String
Dim results As New StringBuilder
emails = ExtractEmailAddressesFromString(contents)
For Each email In emails
intCount += 1
results.Append(email & vbNewLine)
Next
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12-07-2010
08:06 PM
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Can you tell me why our sends show through the API as 50 and our report in our account shows 104. We have checked the content of he response and there are only 50 email addresses in it.
Thank you,
Charles
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11-30-2010
10:00 PM
David,
Just wanted you to know that we have been able to retieve the email addresses from the responseText string. I will contact you again should we require addtional assistance.
Thank you,
Charles
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11-30-2010
02:52 PM
David,
At this point no, but I'm not sure how I would parse out just the email addresses from the string response.
Thank you,
Charles
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11-30-2010
11:35 AM
Our goal is to present the user with separate lists of the email addresses for Bounces, Optouts, Clicks, and Opens for a selected campaign. This will allow us to then take the appropriate action in our system.
Thank you,
David
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11-30-2010
09:57 AM
Good Morning David,
Any progress on this topic? We are eager to integrate this feature assoon as possible.
Thank you,
Charles
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11-24-2010
09:56 PM
David,
Thank you and I look forward to your reply and a resolution.
Charles
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11-24-2010
12:59 PM
David,
Sorry, but we are now back to getting the original error: Nested table 'link' which inherits its namespace cannot have multiple parent tables in different namespaces.
The error is on the dscte.ReadXml(xtr) line.
I also wanted to add that using our origianl code we are able to successfuly retreive a list of our last 90 day campaigns and the events for the campaign. So my thinking is that there must be some difference in the structure of the bounce and optout xml response being returned. Perhaps some unusual formatting of the xml.
Thank you,
Charles
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11-23-2010
10:49 PM
Wanted you to also know that we were able to copy the content of the responseText to notepad and save it as an xml file. When we opened it in the browser, this is what we get: Not sure this any help.
The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/Documents/test3.xml'. L...
"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <id>http://api.consta...
Thank you,
Charles
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11-23-2010
10:36 PM
David,
Much appreciate your help with this. I tried your suggestion, however I now get an 'Illegal characters in path' error. Is the string returned to responseText in xml format? The error is being returned on this line:
Using theResponse As HttpWebResponse = TryCast(theRequest.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
Dim responseStream As Stream = theResponse.GetResponseStream()
Dim streamReader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(responseStream)
Dim responseText As String = streamReader.ReadToEnd
Dim xtr As New XmlTextReader(responseText)
xtr.ReadString()
'load dataset with xml response
Dim dscte As New DataSet()
dscte.ReadXml(xtr) 'Illegal characters in path.
'Create the xml file to check what we are receiving.
dscte.WriteXml("C:\Documents\Data.xml")
End Using
Thank you,
Charles
XmlTextReader(responseText)
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11-22-2010
04:10 PM
We are now being told that the xml in your response is not correctly formatted. Can you provide any assistance?
The error is "Nested table 'link' which inherits its namespace cannot have multiple parent tables in different namespaces."
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11-19-2010
11:27 AM
we have tried the suggested uri and validated that it is complete and correct. it contains the correct user name and campaign id. But our xml file contains only the following ines:
<? xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" ?>
< NewDataSet />
Here is our code
Protected Sub ddCampaigns_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
Dim ConnectStr As String = _
ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("ConnectionString").ConnectionString
'Try
Dim ctu As String = GetCTU()
Dim ctp As String = GetCTP()
'check if user has ct's
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(ctu) Then
Exit Sub
End If
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(ctp) Then
Exit Sub
End If
'this returns an xml info for selected Campaign (email)
Dim strCampaignID As String
Dim s As String = ddCampaigns.SelectedValue.ToString()
Dim index As Integer = s.LastIndexOf("/")
If index >= 0 And (index + 1) < s.Length Then
strCampaignID = s.Substring(index + 1)
End If
Dim sUri As String = "https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/" & ctu & "/campaigns/" & strCampaignID & "/events/bounces" 'optouts" 'clicks"
Dim sAPIKey As String = "///////"
'setup httpWebReqeust to send the request
Dim address As New Uri(sUri)
Dim theRequest As HttpWebRequest = TryCast(WebRequest.Create(address), HttpWebRequest)
theRequest.Credentials = New NetworkCredential((sAPIKey & "%" & ctu), ctp)
theRequest.Method = "GET"
theRequest.ContentType = "application/vnd.ctct+xml"
Using theResponse As HttpWebResponse = TryCast(theRequest.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
'load dataset with xml response
Dim xtr As New XmlTextReader(theResponse.GetResponseStream())
xtr.ReadString()
Dim dscte As New DataSet()
'dscte.ReadXml(xtr) ', XmlReadMode.IgnoreSchema)
dscte.ReadXml(xtr, XmlReadMode.IgnoreSchema)
dscte.WriteXml("C:\Documents\Data.xml")
End Using
'Catch ex As Exception
' HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(ex.Message)
'End Try
End Sub
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11-18-2010
11:17 AM
Looking for any examples of how to pull a list of email addresses for optouts and bounces for a specific account. WORKING IN asp.NET/vb.NET.
Thank you,
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08-03-2009
02:57 PM
It looks like it was simply needing us to change the HTTP to HTTPS.
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08-03-2009
10:05 AM
No help needed for this, it appears that the only change required is to piont to https and not http.
Here is the code we previously ran fine. It now will not run under the new BASIC. Can anyone tell us why or how to change it to work?
Public Shared Sub GetctctLists(ByRef dropdown As DropDownList)
Dim ConnectStr As String = _
ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("2ConnectionString").ConnectionString
Try
Dim ctu As String = Constant_Contact.GetCTU()
Dim ctp As String = Constant_Contact.GetCTP()
'check if user has ct's
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(ctu) Then
Exit Sub
End If
If String.IsNullOrEmpty(ctp) Then
Exit Sub
End If
'this returns an xml list of lists for the ctct account.
Dim sUri As String = "http://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/" & ctu & "/lists"
Dim sAPIKey As String = "Dev Code Here"
'setup httpWebReqeust to send the request
Dim address As New Uri(sUri)
Dim theRequest As HttpWebRequest = TryCast(WebRequest.Create(address), HttpWebRequest)
theRequest.Credentials = New NetworkCredential((sAPIKey & "%" & ctu), ctp)
theRequest.Method = "GET"
theRequest.ContentType = "application/vnd.ctct+xml"
Using theResponse As HttpWebResponse = TryCast(theRequest.GetResponse(), HttpWebResponse)
'load dataset with xml response
Dim xtr As New XmlTextReader(theResponse.GetResponseStream())
xtr.ReadString()
Dim dsct As New DataSet()
dsct.ReadXml(xtr)
'Filter out unwanted lists
Dim dataView As DataView = dsct.Tables("ContactList").DefaultView
dataView.RowFilter = "ShortName Not like 'Active' And ShortName Not like 'Do Not Mail' And ShortName Not like 'Removed' "
'load dropdown list with list names from name xml node
dropdown.DataSource = dataView
dropdown.DataTextField = "ShortName"
dropdown.DataValueField = "id"
dropdown.DataBind()
dropdown.Items.Insert(0, "")
'Create the xml file to check what we are receiving.
' ds.WriteXml("C:\Data.xml")
End Using
Catch ex As Exception
HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(ex.Message)
End Try
End Sub
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01-27-2009
08:36 PM
Has anyone yet tested the API using ASP.NET? If yes, can you post a sample used to pull a contact list or others?
Thank you,
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06-25-2008
08:15 PM
Have you had any success, anything to share with c#, we use vb.net but can easly convert.
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