OECD.Stat SDMX web service
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GetDatasetMetadata
Use this method to retrieve the metadata associated with a dataset.
- Sample input
- Sample output
- Usage example (C# code)
Test
The test form is only available for requests from the local machine.SOAP 1.1
The following is a sample SOAP 1.1 request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.
POST /Sdmxws/sdmx.asmx HTTP/1.1 Host: stats.oecd.org Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: length SOAPAction: "http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/GetDatasetMetadata" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soap:Body> <GetDatasetMetadata xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/"> <QueryMessage>xml</QueryMessage> </GetDatasetMetadata> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: length <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"> <soap:Body> <GetDatasetMetadataResponse xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/"> <GetDatasetMetadataResult>xml</GetDatasetMetadataResult> </GetDatasetMetadataResponse> </soap:Body> </soap:Envelope>
SOAP 1.2
The following is a sample SOAP 1.2 request and response. The placeholders shown need to be replaced with actual values.
POST /Sdmxws/sdmx.asmx HTTP/1.1 Host: stats.oecd.org Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: length <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"> <soap12:Body> <GetDatasetMetadata xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/"> <QueryMessage>xml</QueryMessage> </GetDatasetMetadata> </soap12:Body> </soap12:Envelope>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/soap+xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: length <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"> <soap12:Body> <GetDatasetMetadataResponse xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/"> <GetDatasetMetadataResult>xml</GetDatasetMetadataResult> </GetDatasetMetadataResponse> </soap12:Body> </soap12:Envelope>