Validate a DDX document using the web service API

Validate a DDX document by using the Assembler Service API (web service):

1. Include project files.

   Create a Microsoft .NET project that uses MTOM. Ensure that you use the following WSDL definition: http://localhost:8080/soap/services/AssemblerService?WSDL&lc_version=9.0.1.

   NOTE

   Replace localhost with the IP address of the forms server.

2. Create a PDF Assembler client.

   • Create an AssemblerServiceClient object by using its default constructor.

   • Create an AssemblerServiceClient.Endpoint.Address object by using the System.ServiceModel.EndpointAddress constructor. Pass a string value that specifies the WSDL to the AEM Forms service (for example, http://localhost:8080/soap/services/AssemblerService?blob=mtom). You do not need to use the lc_version attribute. This attribute is used when you create a service reference.

   • Create a System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object by getting the value of the AssemblerServiceClient.Endpoint.Binding field. Cast the return value to BasicHttpBinding.

   • Set the System.ServiceModel.BasicHttpBinding object’s MessageEncoding field to WSMessageEncoding.Mtom. This value ensures that MTOM is used.

   • Enable basic HTTP authentication by performing the following tasks:

     • Assign the AEM forms user name to the field AssemblerServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName.
     • Assign the corresponding password value to the field AssemblerServiceClient.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password.
     • Assign the constant value HttpClientCredentialType.Basic to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Transport.ClientCredentialType.
     • Assign the constant value BasicHttpSecurityMode.TransportCredentialOnly to the field BasicHttpBindingSecurity.Security.Mode.

3. Reference an existing DDX document.

   • Create a BLOB object by using its constructor. The BLOB object is used to store the DDX document.
   • Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents the file location of the DDX document and the mode to open the file in.
   • Create a byte array that stores the content of the System.IO.FileStream object. You can determine the size of the byte array by getting the System.IO.FileStream object’s Length property.
   • Populate the byte array with stream data by invoking the System.IO.FileStream object’s Read method and passing the byte array, the starting position, and the stream length to read.
   • Populate the BLOB object by assigning its MTOM property with the contents of the byte array.

4. Set run-time options to validate the DDX document.

   • Create an AssemblerOptionSpec object that stores run-time options by using its constructor.
   • Set the run-time option that instructs the Assembler service to validate the DDX document by assigning the value true to the AssemblerOptionSpec object’s validateOnly data member.
   • Set the amount of information that the Assembler service writes to the log file by assigning a string value to the AssemblerOptionSpec object’s logLevel data member. method When validating a DDX document, you want more information written to the log file that will assist in the validation process. As a result, you can specify the value FINE or FINER. For information about the run-time options that you can set, see the AssemblerOptionSpec class reference in AEM Forms API Reference.

5. Perform the validation.

   Invoke the AssemblerServiceClient object’s invokeDDX method and pass the following values:

   • A BLOB object that represents the DDX document.
   • The value null for the Map object that usually stores PDF documents.
   • An AssemblerOptionSpec object that specifies run-time options.

   The invokeDDX method returns an AssemblerResult object that contains information that specifies whether the DDX document is valid.

6. Save the validation results in a log file.

   • Create a System.IO.FileStream object by invoking its constructor and passing a string value that represents the file location of the log file and the mode to open the file in. Ensure that the file name extension is .xml.
   • Create a BLOB object that stores log information by getting the value of the AssemblerResult object’s jobLog data member.
   • Create a byte array that stores the content of the BLOB object. Populate the byte array by getting the value of the BLOB object’s MTOM field.
   • Create a System.IO.BinaryWriter object by invoking its constructor and passing the System.IO.FileStream object.
   • Write the contents of the byte array to a PDF file by invoking the System.IO.BinaryWriter object’s Write method and passing the byte array.
   NOTE

   If the DDX document is invalid, an OperationException is thrown. Within the catch statement, you can get the value of the OperationException object’s jobLog member.

See also

Validating DDX Documents

Invoking AEM Forms using MTOM

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