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.

/* 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);

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) {
        }
    }
}

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

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

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>