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DHL Guias

This an interface to DHL's web services to generate a shipment request and its shipping label.

Development

This program is written in C++ using Visual Studio 2019

It performs this operation:

• Open an XML file with the information of the shipment request, it must contain all the information required by the Server:

  • Billing
  • Consignee
  • Shipment Details
  • Shipper
  • Required label format (PDF, ZPL)

• Connect to DHL Web server and POST the shipment request

• Receive and parse the response

• If the response is successful decode the label format and write it to a file

• Keep a record of request-airway bill number

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition
• POCO library if additional functionality is required

Usage

dhlguias.exe [server] [xml file] [output directory]
Example:
dhlguias.exe http://xmlpitest-ea.dhl.com/XMLShippingServlet c:\data\requestPdf.xml c:\data\airwaybills

Sample captures

Authors

• Victor Peralta -(victor.peralta.gomez@gmail.com)