Postcode anywhere Bank validataion webservice

[Former Member]

HI All

I'm having a problem calling the Postcode Anywhere bank validation service.

I have created the web proxy using the .Net wsdl engine.

WSDL URL: https://services.postcodeanywhere.co.uk/BankAccountValidation/Interactive/Validate/v2.00/wsdlnew.ws

I connect to the web service ok but when I call the method I'm getting a runtimeerror that says "the returned XML is malformed."

The soaplog is empty.

Sample Data Used:

Name	Type	Description	Default	Example
Key *	String	The key to use to authenticate to the service.		AA11-AA11-AA11-AA11
AccountNumber *	String	The bank account number to validate.		12345678
SortCode *	String	The branch sort code for the account number.		00-00-99

This should return a valid response.

Looking at the API documentation

Postcode Anywhere API - BankAccountValidation Interactive Validate (v2.00)

It says that it returns a table and this table can have two different formats. It has a different number of columns if errors occur. I'm wondering how the PB webservice proxy will deal with that as it only shows one response type from the WSDL file.

The questions have are:

1. Has anyone connected to postcode anywhere for bank validation with PB?

2. Has anyone any idea how I can debug / resolve this problem.

PB Version is: 12.5.2 Classic.

Regards

David

[arnd_schmidt · Accepted solution]

I do not think that the .NET proxy generates a soap log.

Try  http://www.telerik.com/fiddler.

hth

Arnd

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Brilliant, that shows the problem

Thanks