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This comprehensive guide is designed to help technical staff you effectively implement POSTMan web servicesPOSTman Web Services (PWS).

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The setup process is as follows:

purchase Purchase PWS credits. Please refer to our FAQ section on how credit use works.
review Review your welcome email from our team which includes your username and password
visit Visit the PWS Dashboard and use your username and password. We recommend changing your password and checking that your usage credits are displayed correctly on the dashboard
go Work your way through the Integrating POSTman Web Services section

The POSTman Web Services site is where you access the product itself.

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If an address cannot be corrected automatically using Australia Post’s AMAS rules, the operator will should be taken to a near matches list such as this one.

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The SetLogin function is the first call made to the Postman KEngine to set the username and password. Other web methods are valid only if the user has set a valid username and password by calling this web method.

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Parameter Name	Value	Description
username	string	DMS PWS username
password	string	DMS PWS password

Return Structure

The call to setLogin will return unique string which needs to be saved by the user for the further use.

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Parameter Name	Value	Description
sessionID	string	Has to set to the string returned by the setLogin function
address1	string	First line of the address to search for
address2	string	Second line of the address to search for
address3	string	Third line of the address to search for
address4	string	4^th line of the address to search for
address5	string	5^th line of the address to search for
address6	string	6^th line of the address to search for
suburb	string	Suburb of the address to search for
state	string	State of the address to search for
postcode	string	Postcode of the address to search for
mixedCase	boolean	Whether or not the search address can contain Mixed cases
expandAbbreviations	boolean	Whether or not Postman engine expands the search address’s abbreviations

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Parameter Name

Value

Description

sessionID

string

Has to set to the string returned by the setLogin

function

maxNumberOfMatches

integer

The maximum number of the returned recode records of possible addresses near or similar to the one just scanned

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The call to CurrentBalance will return an XML packet with an integer value in it. This integer is your current balance which is decremented by 1 every time you use an address validation.

Program Examples

C#

WebReference.Postman1 pm = new WebReference.Postman1();
string MyID = pm.SetLogin("username", "password");
// set login and get the id
WebReference.POSTmanAddressRecord adr;
adr = pm.ScanAddress(MyID, "1 fake st", "", "", "", "",
"Brisbane", "qld", "6000", "Australia");
// scan address
if(!adr.IsValidAddress)
{
// if the address is not valid
WebReference.POSTmanAddressRecord[] adr2;
adr2 = pm.NearMatches(MyID, 10);
// nearest matches
}
int i = pm.CurrentBalance(MyID);
// check the balance

PHP

The following small example is developed by using PHP 5.2.6
(http://www.php.net/downloads.php) and NuSoap 0.7.3
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/nusoap/);

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<title>Webservice PHP Invocation Testing</title>
<?php
//include NuSoap
require_once('lib/nusoap.php');
echo '<p>Hello DMS WS PHP Invocation Testing</p>';
//Soap call
$client = new
soapclient('http://webservice.dmsw.com.au/postman/postman1.asmx?wsdl', 'wsdl');
//Error handling
$err = $client->getError();
if ($err) {
echo '<h2>Constructor error</h2><pre>' . $err . '</pre>';
}
echo '<p>Retrieve current balance:</p>';
//Stored input parameters in an array
$aryPara = array('myUsername'=>'UserName', 'myPassword'=>'PassWord');
// Call webmethod -- SetLogin of DMS webservice and retrieve a loginGUID
$loginGUID = $client->call('SetLogin',$aryPara);
//Call webmethod - CurrentBalance of DMS webservice
$CurrentBalancearry = array('sessionID'=>($loginGUID['SetLoginResult']));
$aryResult = $client->call('CurrentBalance', $CurrentBalancearry);
//print result
print_r($aryResult);
echo '<p>Address validation testing:</p>';
//stored input parameters in an array NOTICE: sessionID is not 'null' now, the value of
loginGUID should be set to sessionID
$aryAddr = array('sessionID'=> ($loginGUID['SetLoginResult']),'address1'=>' Park
Road ','address2'=> null,'address3'=>
null,'suburb'=>'milton','state'=>'qld','postcode'=>'4030','mixedCase'=>
true,'ExpandAbbreviations'=> true);

//Call webmethod -- ScanAddress2 of DMS webservice
$record = $client->call('ScanAddress2',$aryAddr);

//Error handling
if ($client->fault) {
echo '<h2>Fault</h2><pre>';
print_r($record);
echo '</pre>';
} else {
// Check for errors

$err = $client->getError();
if ($err) {
// Display the error
echo '<h2>Error</h2><pre>' . $err . '</pre>';
} else {
// Display the result
echo 'Result:<br>';
//Print results
while (list($key,$value) = each($record['ScanAddress2Result'])) {
echo "$key : $value<br>";}
echo '</pre>';
}
echo '<p>-----------------</p>';
}
?>
</body>
</html>

If the login details are correct, the result will be similar to this:

Hello WS PHP Invocation Testing

Retrieve current balance:

Array ( [CurrentBalanceResult] => XXXXX ) //XXXXX denotes user's credit

Address validation testing:

Result:
Address1 : Park Road
Address2 :
Address3 :
Address4 :
Address5 :
Address6 :
Suburb : MILTON
State : QLD
PostalCode : 4030
StatusCode : -30
StatusDescription : No matching street address locality
IsStreetAddress : true
IsValidAddress : false
IsCorrectedAddress : false
DPID : 0
BSP :
Barcode :
BSPName :
BSPState :
PrimaryPointFlag : 0
Property1 :
Property2 :
PropertyName :

SortDestination :
LevelNo :
LevelType :
LotNo :
ThoroughfareName : Park
ThoroughfareType :
ThoroughfareTypeSuffix :
UnitNo :
UnitType :
StreetNumber : Lot
ThoroughfareNo1 : 0
ThoroughfareNo1Suffix :
ThoroughfareNo2 : 0
ThoroughfareNo2Suffix :
POBoxNo : 0
POBoxNoPrefix :
POBoxNoSuffix :
POBoxType :
NonAddressData :
CareOfData :
OriginalAddressData : Array
LastError : 0
LastErrorDescription :

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