SearchService Web Service

SearchService

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Search

Does search and returns hit count, message and required hits

Test

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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 /findinsite/SearchService.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: www.phdcc.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "http://www.phdcc.com/findinsite/Search"

<?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>
    <Search xmlns="http://www.phdcc.com/findinsite/">
      <SearchRequest>
        <UserParam>string</UserParam>
        <Text>string</Text>
        <Subsets>string</Subsets>
        <HitsFrom>int</HitsFrom>
        <HitsTo>int</HitsTo>
        <HitElems>ResultNo or Title or URL or HighlightURL or Abstract or Filename or WordCount or Date or Indexed or Size or Snippet or PageWordCount or All</HitElems>
        <SearchFields>
          <anyType />
          <anyType />
        </SearchFields>
      </SearchRequest>
    </Search>
  </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>
    <SearchResponse xmlns="http://www.phdcc.com/findinsite/">
      <SearchResult>
        <UserParam>string</UserParam>
        <Count>int</Count>
        <Message>string</Message>
        <Hits>
          <anyType />
          <anyType />
        </Hits>
      </SearchResult>
    </SearchResponse>
  </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 /findinsite/SearchService.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: www.phdcc.com
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>
    <Search xmlns="http://www.phdcc.com/findinsite/">
      <SearchRequest>
        <UserParam>string</UserParam>
        <Text>string</Text>
        <Subsets>string</Subsets>
        <HitsFrom>int</HitsFrom>
        <HitsTo>int</HitsTo>
        <HitElems>ResultNo or Title or URL or HighlightURL or Abstract or Filename or WordCount or Date or Indexed or Size or Snippet or PageWordCount or All</HitElems>
        <SearchFields>
          <anyType />
          <anyType />
        </SearchFields>
      </SearchRequest>
    </Search>
  </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>
    <SearchResponse xmlns="http://www.phdcc.com/findinsite/">
      <SearchResult>
        <UserParam>string</UserParam>
        <Count>int</Count>
        <Message>string</Message>
        <Hits>
          <anyType />
          <anyType />
        </Hits>
      </SearchResult>
    </SearchResponse>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>