ContactService


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AddContact

Adds a new contact.

Parameters
contactThe contact to add. You can leave the ID field blank if you want Esendex to generate an identity for the new contact.

Returns
The identity assigned to the new contact.

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 /secure/messenger/soap/ContactService.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: www.esendex.com
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "com.esendex.ems.soapinterface/AddContact"

<?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:Header>
    <MessengerHeader xmlns="com.esendex.ems.soapinterface">
      <Username>string</Username>
      <Password>string</Password>
      <Account>string</Account>
    </MessengerHeader>
  </soap:Header>
  <soap:Body>
    <AddContact xmlns="com.esendex.ems.soapinterface">
      <contact>
        <ID>string</ID>
        <QuickName>string</QuickName>
        <FirstName>string</FirstName>
        <LastName>string</LastName>
        <EmailAddress>string</EmailAddress>
        <TelephoneNumber>string</TelephoneNumber>
        <MobileNumber>string</MobileNumber>
        <StreetAddress1>string</StreetAddress1>
        <StreetAddress2>string</StreetAddress2>
        <Town>string</Town>
        <County>string</County>
        <Postcode>string</Postcode>
        <Country>string</Country>
        <ContactType>Contact or Subscriber</ContactType>
      </contact>
    </AddContact>
  </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>
    <AddContactResponse xmlns="com.esendex.ems.soapinterface">
      <AddContactResult>string</AddContactResult>
    </AddContactResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>