Service


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GetAwardingBody

Returns the complete set of Awarding Body data

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 /QWS/QWSWebService.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: collectdata.education.gov.uk
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "dfes.gov.uk/qws/qwswebservice/GetAwardingBody"

<?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>
    <GetAwardingBody xmlns="dfes.gov.uk/qws/qwswebservice" />
  </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>
    <GetAwardingBodyResponse xmlns="dfes.gov.uk/qws/qwswebservice">
      <GetAwardingBodyResult>int</GetAwardingBodyResult>
      <resultArray>
        <ABData>
          <AB_ID>int</AB_ID>
          <AB>string</AB>
          <AwardingBodyName>string</AwardingBodyName>
          <AB_Acronym>string</AB_Acronym>
          <EffectiveFrom>dateTime</EffectiveFrom>
          <EffectiveTo>dateTime</EffectiveTo>
          <LastUpdated>dateTime</LastUpdated>
        </ABData>
        <ABData>
          <AB_ID>int</AB_ID>
          <AB>string</AB>
          <AwardingBodyName>string</AwardingBodyName>
          <AB_Acronym>string</AB_Acronym>
          <EffectiveFrom>dateTime</EffectiveFrom>
          <EffectiveTo>dateTime</EffectiveTo>
          <LastUpdated>dateTime</LastUpdated>
        </ABData>
      </resultArray>
    </GetAwardingBodyResponse>
  </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 /QWS/QWSWebService.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: collectdata.education.gov.uk
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>
    <GetAwardingBody xmlns="dfes.gov.uk/qws/qwswebservice" />
  </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>
    <GetAwardingBodyResponse xmlns="dfes.gov.uk/qws/qwswebservice">
      <GetAwardingBodyResult>int</GetAwardingBodyResult>
      <resultArray>
        <ABData>
          <AB_ID>int</AB_ID>
          <AB>string</AB>
          <AwardingBodyName>string</AwardingBodyName>
          <AB_Acronym>string</AB_Acronym>
          <EffectiveFrom>dateTime</EffectiveFrom>
          <EffectiveTo>dateTime</EffectiveTo>
          <LastUpdated>dateTime</LastUpdated>
        </ABData>
        <ABData>
          <AB_ID>int</AB_ID>
          <AB>string</AB>
          <AwardingBodyName>string</AwardingBodyName>
          <AB_Acronym>string</AB_Acronym>
          <EffectiveFrom>dateTime</EffectiveFrom>
          <EffectiveTo>dateTime</EffectiveTo>
          <LastUpdated>dateTime</LastUpdated>
        </ABData>
      </resultArray>
    </GetAwardingBodyResponse>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>