GetSoundFileLength

This method retrieves a sound file’s length in seconds.

Syntax

GetSoundFileLength(SoundFileID, LicenseKey)

Request Parameters

Parameter Name	Description	Data Type	Required	Sample Value
SoundFileID	The sound file’s ID.	String	True	greeting
LicenseKey	Your license key.	String	True	00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Response

Returns: Double

Description: The length of the file, in seconds.

Sample:
6.123

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);
var soundFileId = "greeting";
var length = await client.GetSoundFileLengthAsync(soundFileId, YOUR_LICENSE_KEY);

Console.WriteLine("Sound file length: " + length);

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 GetSoundFileLength {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            URL url = new URL("https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/PhoneNotify.asmx/GetSoundFileLength?"
                            + "SoundFileID=test sound file"
                            + "&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

import zeep

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

response = client.service.GetSoundFileLength(sound_file_id, license_key)

print(response)

GET Request

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

POST Request

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

SoundFileID=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/GetSoundFileLength"

<?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>
    <GetSoundFileLength xmlns="https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/">
      <SoundFileID>string</SoundFileID>
      <LicenseKey>string</LicenseKey>
    </GetSoundFileLength>
  </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>
    <GetSoundFileLengthResponse xmlns="https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/">
      <GetSoundFileLengthResult>double</GetSoundFileLengthResult>
    </GetSoundFileLengthResponse>
  </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>
    <GetSoundFileLength xmlns="https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/">
      <SoundFileID>string</SoundFileID>
      <LicenseKey>string</LicenseKey>
    </GetSoundFileLength>
  </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>
    <GetSoundFileLengthResponse xmlns="https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/">
      <GetSoundFileLengthResult>double</GetSoundFileLengthResult>
    </GetSoundFileLengthResponse>
  </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"?>
<double xmlns="https://ws.esendex.us/NotifyWS/">double</double>