Voice Broadcast API

CancelNotify

This method cancels a single call that is scheduled for the future. It will not cancel completed calls or calls in progress. You will receive credit for any successfully cancelled call.

Syntax

CancelNotify(QueueID, LicenseKey)

Request Parameters

Parameter Name	Description	Data Type	Required	Sample Value
QueueID	The unique ID of a single call, as returned from any `Notify*` operation.	`Long`	True	4093249
LicenseKey	Your license key.	`String`	True	00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Response

Returns: Boolean

Description: True if cancellation was successful. False otherwise.

Code Samples

You can use any programming language you want with our API, as long as it can make a REST or SOAP call. Here are examples for some of the most common platforms.

C#
Java
Python
GET Request
POST Request
SOAP 1.1 Request
SOAP 1.1 Response
SOAP 1.2 Request
SOAP 1.2 Response
XML Response

C#

/* https://ws.esendex.us/notifyws/phonenotify.asmx?wsdl was added as a Service Reference and given the name WSDL */

using WSDL;

var client = new PhoneNotifySoapClient(PhoneNotifySoapClient.EndpointConfiguration.PhoneNotifySoap);

// Let's queue a notification.
var response = await client.NotifyPhoneAdvancedAsync(new AdvancedNotifyRequest
{
    PhoneNumberToDial = YOUR_TO_NUMBER,
    TextToSay = "Hello, this is a test call.",
    UTCScheduledDateTime = DateTime.UtcNow.AddDays(1),
    LicenseKey = YOUR_LICENSE_KEY
});

// We can use this ID to cancel the notification later on.
var queueId = response.QueueID;

// We can cancel the notification at any time before it's sent. Let's cancel it now.
var cancelled = await client.CancelNotifyAsync(queueId, YOUR_LICENSE_KEY);

Console.WriteLine("Notification was cancelled: " + cancelled);

Java

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Properties;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;

public final class CancelNotify {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            URL url = new URL("https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/PhoneNotify.asmx/CancelNotify?"
                            + "QueueID=000111222" + "&LicenseKey=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000");
            try {
                InputStream in = url.openStream();
                StreamSource source = new StreamSource(in);
                printResult(source);
            } catch (java.io.IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    private static void printResult(Source source) {
        try {
            ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            StreamResult sr = new StreamResult(bos);
            Transformer trans = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            Properties oprops = new Properties();
            oprops.put(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
            trans.setOutputProperties(oprops);
            trans.transform(source, sr);
            System.out.println("**** Response ******");
            System.out.println(bos.toString());

            bos.close();
            System.out.println();
        } catch (Exception e) {
        }
    }
}

Python

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import zeep

client = zeep.Client(wsdl="https://ws.esendex.us/notifyws/phonenotify.asmx?wsdl")
license_key = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"

dt = datetime.utcnow() + timedelta(days=1)
utc_scheduled_date_time = f"{dt.isoformat()}Z"

# Let's queue a notification.
request = {
    "PhoneNumberToDial": "17575559999",
    "VoiceID": 1,
    "CallerIDNumber": "7575550000",
    "CallerIDName": "Esendex Services",
    "TextToSay": "Hello, this call was sent with Python.",
    "LicenseKey": license_key,
    "TryCount": 2,
    "NextTryInSeconds": 180,
    "UTCScheduledDateTime": utc_scheduled_date_time,
    "TTSrate": 10,
    "TTSvolume": 100,
    "MaxCallLength": 0,
}

result = client.service.NotifyPhoneAdvanced(request)

# We can use this ID to cancel the notification later on.
queue_id = result.QueueID

# We can cancel the notification at any time before it's sent. Let's cancel it now.
result = client.service.CancelNotify(queue_id, license_key)

print(result)

GET Request

GET /NotifyWS/PhoneNotify.asmx/CancelNotify?QueueID=string&LicenseKey=string HTTP/1.1
Host: ws.esendex.us

POST Request

POST /NotifyWS/PhoneNotify.asmx/CancelNotify HTTP/1.1
Host: ws.esendex.us
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: length

QueueID=string&LicenseKey=string

SOAP 1.1 Request

POST /NotifyWS/PhoneNotify.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: ws.esendex.us
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length
SOAPAction: "https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/CancelNotify"

<?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>
    <CancelNotify xmlns="https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/">
      <QueueID>long</QueueID>
      <LicenseKey>string</LicenseKey>
    </CancelNotify>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

SOAP 1.1 Response

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>
    <CancelNotifyResponse xmlns="https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/">
      <CancelNotifyResult>boolean</CancelNotifyResult>
    </CancelNotifyResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

SOAP 1.2 Request

POST /NotifyWS/PhoneNotify.asmx HTTP/1.1
Host: ws.esendex.us
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>
    <CancelNotify xmlns="https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/">
      <QueueID>long</QueueID>
      <LicenseKey>string</LicenseKey>
    </CancelNotify>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>

SOAP 1.2 Response

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>
    <CancelNotifyResponse xmlns="https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/">
      <CancelNotifyResult>boolean</CancelNotifyResult>
    </CancelNotifyResponse>
  </soap12:Body>
</soap12:Envelope>

XML Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: length

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<boolean xmlns="https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/">boolean</boolean>

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