OECD.Stat SDMX web service Web Service

OECD.Stat SDMX web service

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GetMetadata

Use this method to retrieve a range of metadata in 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/GetMetadata"

<?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>
    <GetMetadata xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/">
      <QueryMessage>xml</QueryMessage>
    </GetMetadata>
  </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>
    <GetMetadataResponse xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/">
      <GetMetadataResult>xml</GetMetadataResult>
    </GetMetadataResponse>
  </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>
    <GetMetadata xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/">
      <QueryMessage>xml</QueryMessage>
    </GetMetadata>
  </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>
    <GetMetadataResponse xmlns="http://stats.oecd.org/OECDStatWS/SDMX/">
      <GetMetadataResult>xml</GetMetadataResult>
    </GetMetadataResponse>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>