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GetGenericData

Use this method to retrieve data in Generic format from an .Stat dataset.
Note: As the requested input parameter is an xml document, you can not try the method using this webservice presentation page.

Input: SDMX QueryMessage (in SDMX-ML format)
Output: SDMX GenericDataMessage (in SDMX-ML format)

When authenticated access is needed, then previously do the following steps:

Step n° 1: Get the current .Stat public encryption key:
/OECDStatWS_Authentication/OECDStatWS_Authentication.asmx?op=GetPublicKey
Step n° 2: RSA-encrypt your password using the public encryption key and authenticate yourself:
/OECDStatWS_Authentication/OECDStatWS_Authentication.asmx?op=AuthenticateWithLogonUpdate
The 'AuthenticateWithLogonUpdate' method returns a session ID and updates the username. Provide this session ID, your user name and the domain as URL options 'sessionid', 'login' and 'domain' to the GetDataStructureDefinition method.

Note: You can reuse the same session ID for several SDMX requests within a certain timeout. The authentication procedure might be modified in the future.
Our new SDMX web service version implements Streaming, and can therefore not set the 'Truncated' element in the response message. We are thus unable to take the 'defaultLimit' attribute in the Query message into account. To avoid errors, either implement streaming also at your (client) side to allow for greater-sized results or restrict the selection in the query message according to your limitation. In any case, please don't use the 'defaultLimit' attribute in the Query message.

Test

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/GetGenericData"

<?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>
    <GetGenericData xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/">
      <QueryMessage>xml</QueryMessage>
    </GetGenericData>
  </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>
    <GetGenericDataResponse xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/">
      <GetGenericDataResult>xml</GetGenericDataResult>
    </GetGenericDataResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

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>
    <GetGenericData xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/">
      <QueryMessage>xml</QueryMessage>
    </GetGenericData>
  </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>
    <GetGenericDataResponse xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/">
      <GetGenericDataResult>xml</GetGenericDataResult>
    </GetGenericDataResponse>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>