Convert FetchXML to QueryExpression Using .NET or JScript With the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK
Jamie Miley
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ReportThis illustration shows how to convert a FetchXML query to a QueryExpression in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 in code in jscript and also C# using the FetchXmlToQueryExpressionRequest. This example will be given in SOAP (JScript) and in C# (.NET).
Ok, here is what the code look like!
If you need help instantiating a service object in .NET within a plugin check out this post:
http://mileyja.blogspot.com/2011/04/instantiating-service-object-within.html
To understand how to parse the response please review my post on using the DOM parser.
Ok, here is what the code look like!
First in C#:
FetchXmlToQueryExpressionRequest req = new FetchXmlToQueryExpressionRequest();
req.FetchXml = "<fetch version='1.0' output-format='xml-platform' mapping='logical' distinct='false'>" +
"<entity name='account'>" +
"<attribute name='name' /> " +
"<attribute name='address1_city' /> " +
"<attribute name='primarycontactid' /> " +
"<attribute name='telephone1' /> " +
"<attribute name='accountid' /> " +
"<order attribute='name' descending='false' /> " +
"<filter type='and'>" +
"<condition attribute='statecode' operator='eq' value='0' /> " +
"</filter>" +
"<link-entity name='contact' from='contactid' to='primarycontactid' visible='false' link-type='outer' alias='accountprimarycontactidcontactcontactid'>" +
"<attribute name='emailaddress1' /> " +
"</link-entity>" +
"</entity>" +
"</fetch>";
FetchXmlToQueryExpressionResponse resp = (FetchXmlToQueryExpressionResponse)service.Execute(req);
//How to access the query expression from the response
//resp.Query
If you need help instantiating a service object in .NET within a plugin check out this post:
http://mileyja.blogspot.com/2011/04/instantiating-service-object-within.html
Now here is the Jscript nicely formatted by the CRM 2011 SOAP formatter. Available at: http://crm2011soap.codeplex.com/
Now in Jscript:
This is example is asynchronous, if you want to learn how to make JScript SOAP calls synchronously please visit this post: http://mileyja.blogspot.com/2011/07/using-jscript-to-access-soap-web.html
Now in Jscript:
This is example is asynchronous, if you want to learn how to make JScript SOAP calls synchronously please visit this post: http://mileyja.blogspot.com/2011/07/using-jscript-to-access-soap-web.html
if (typeof (SDK) == "undefined")
{ SDK = { __namespace: true }; }
//This will establish a more unique namespace for functions in this library. This will reduce the
// potential for functions to be overwritten due to a duplicate name when the library is loaded.
SDK.SAMPLES = {
_getServerUrl: function () {
///<summary>
/// Returns the URL for the SOAP endpoint using the context information available in the form
/// or HTML Web resource.
///</summary>
var OrgServicePath = "/XRMServices/2011/Organization.svc/web";
var serverUrl = "";
if (typeof GetGlobalContext == "function") {
var context = GetGlobalContext();
serverUrl = context.getServerUrl();
}
else {
if (typeof Xrm.Page.context == "object") {
serverUrl = Xrm.Page.context.getServerUrl();
}
else
{ throw new Error("Unable to access the server URL"); }
}
if (serverUrl.match(/\/$/)) {
serverUrl = serverUrl.substring(0, serverUrl.length - 1);
}
return serverUrl + OrgServicePath;
},
FetchXmlToQueryExpressionRequest: function () {
var requestMain = ""
requestMain += "<s:Envelope xmlns:s=\"http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/\">";
requestMain += " <s:Body>";
requestMain += " <Execute xmlns=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services\" xmlns:i=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\">";
requestMain += " <request i:type=\"b:FetchXmlToQueryExpressionRequest\" xmlns:a=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts\" xmlns:b=\"http://schemas.microsoft.com/crm/2011/Contracts\">";
requestMain += " <a:Parameters xmlns:c=\"http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/System.Collections.Generic\">";
requestMain += " <a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
requestMain += " <c:key>FetchXml</c:key>";
requestMain += " <c:value i:type=\"d:string\" xmlns:d=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\"><fetch version='1.0' output-format='xml-platform' mapping='logical' distinct='false'><entity name='account'><attribute name='name' /> <attribute name='address1_city' /> <attribute name='primarycontactid' /> <attribute name='telephone1' /> <attribute name='accountid' /> <order attribute='name' descending='false' /> <filter type='and'><condition attribute='statecode' operator='eq' value='0' /> </filter><link-entity name='contact' from='contactid' to='primarycontactid' visible='false' link-type='outer' alias='accountprimarycontactidcontactcontactid'><attribute name='emailaddress1' /> </link-entity></entity></fetch></c:value>";
requestMain += " </a:KeyValuePairOfstringanyType>";
requestMain += " </a:Parameters>";
requestMain += " <a:RequestId i:nil=\"true\" />";
requestMain += " <a:RequestName>FetchXmlToQueryExpression</a:RequestName>";
requestMain += " </request>";
requestMain += " </Execute>";
requestMain += " </s:Body>";
requestMain += "</s:Envelope>";
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.open("POST", SDK.SAMPLES._getServerUrl(), true)
// Responses will return XML. It isn't possible to return JSON.
req.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/xml, text/xml, */*");
req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
req.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/xrm/2011/Contracts/Services/IOrganizationService/Execute");
var successCallback = null;
var errorCallback = null;
req.onreadystatechange = function () { SDK.SAMPLES.FetchXmlToQueryExpressionResponse(req, successCallback, errorCallback); };
req.send(requestMain);
},
FetchXmlToQueryExpressionResponse: function (req, successCallback, errorCallback) {
///<summary>
/// Recieves the assign response
///</summary>
///<param name="req" Type="XMLHttpRequest">
/// The XMLHttpRequest response
///</param>
///<param name="successCallback" Type="Function">
/// The function to perform when an successfult response is returned.
/// For this message no data is returned so a success callback is not really necessary.
///</param>
///<param name="errorCallback" Type="Function">
/// The function to perform when an error is returned.
/// This function accepts a JScript error returned by the _getError function
///</param>
if (req.readyState == 4) {
if (req.status == 200) {
if (successCallback != null)
{ successCallback(); }
}
else {
errorCallback(SDK.SAMPLES._getError(req.responseXML));
}
}
},
_getError: function (faultXml) {
///<summary>
/// Parses the WCF fault returned in the event of an error.
///</summary>
///<param name="faultXml" Type="XML">
/// The responseXML property of the XMLHttpRequest response.
///</param>
var errorMessage = "Unknown Error (Unable to parse the fault)";
if (typeof faultXml == "object") {
try {
var bodyNode = faultXml.firstChild.firstChild;
//Retrieve the fault node
for (var i = 0; i < bodyNode.childNodes.length; i++) {
var node = bodyNode.childNodes[i];
//NOTE: This comparison does not handle the case where the XML namespace changes
if ("s:Fault" == node.nodeName) {
for (var j = 0; j < node.childNodes.length; j++) {
var faultStringNode = node.childNodes[j];
if ("faultstring" == faultStringNode.nodeName) {
errorMessage = faultStringNode.text;
break;
}
}
break;
}
}
}
catch (e) { };
}
return new Error(errorMessage);
},
__namespace: true
};
To understand how to parse the response please review my post on using the DOM parser.
Now you can call the SDK.SAMPLES.FetchXmlToQueryExpressionRequest function from your form jscript handler.
Thats all there is to it!
I hope this helps!
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