Sample Code and Results
The purpose of this section is to provide a series of small but complete examples of code that can be freely downloaded and modified for use in PXWeb related projects. Some sample results are included at the end of this page to illustrate the output of some requests.
Disclaimer: DTN grants you an nonexclusive copyright license to use this code and you can use it to prepare similar functions tailored to your own needs. The code is provided for illustrative purposes only and has not been tested under all conditions. For that reason, DTN provides this code to you "AS IS" without any warranties of any kind.
Postman
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| PXWeb.postman_collection.json | A Postman collection describing the PXWeb end points with a few examples. In order to make requests the UserID and Password collection variables need to be set to valid values. |
ASP
| Name | Description | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|
| GetDailyHistoryHtml.asp | ASP/VBScript example to invoke GetDailyHistory and present result as an HTML table using a style sheet. | GetDailyHistoryHtml.xsl |
| GetQuoteSnapHtml.asp | ASP/VBScript example to invoke GetQuoteSnap and present result as an HTML table using a style sheet. | GetQuoteSnapHtml.xsl |
C#
| Name | Description | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|
| DynamicConfig.cs | Dynamic handling of the channel configuration avoiding need for a configuration file. This technique may be needed when accessing PXWeb from some environments like SQL Server Integration Services. |
Java
| Name | Description | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|
| GetDailyHistoryCsv.java | Retrieve history data for a given list of search patterns and reformat result as CSV. This example can be easily modified for GetMinuteHistory and GetTickHistory. |
Python
Sample code has been tested with Python 3.10 from www.python.org.
Most of the examples for Python need the PXWeb.py module, which contains common code to access PXWeb, just download this module at the same location as the example being tested.
| Name | Description | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|
| PXWeb.py | Common PXWeb access module, most of the Python examples import this module. | |
| GetDailyHistoryCsv.py | Retrieve history data for a given list of search patterns and reformat result as CSV. This example can be easily modified for GetMinuteHistory and GetTickHistory. |
PXWeb.py |
| GetDailyHistoryHtml.py | Retrieve history data for a given list of search patterns and reformat result as an HTML table. This example can be easily modified for GetMinuteHistory and GetTickHistory. |
PXWeb.py |
| GetDailyHistorySvg.py | Retrieve history data for a given search pattern and build a SVG chart. The result SVG file can be viewed on a SVG compatible browser |
PXWeb.py |
| GetDailyHistorySoap.py | Retrieve history data via SOAP for a given list of search patterns and write result to an XML file. This example can be easily modified for GetMinuteHistory and GetTickHistory. |
XSLT
| Name | Description | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|
| GetDailyHistoryHtml.xsl | Style sheet to convert result from GetDailyHistory to HTML table. | |
| GetQuoteSnapHtml.xsl | Style sheet to convert result from GetQuoteSnap to HTML table. |
Sample Results
These files where generated by using very open symbol search patterns and they are larger than the average result.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| GetQuoteSnap.xml | Sample result from a GetQuoteSnap request. |
| GetDailyHistory.xml | Sample results from a GetDailyHistory request. |