memoQ server Web Services API sample code

This is a minial example to help you get started using memoQ server's Web Service API. The script-like code in Program.cs executes the following tasks:

• Creates a user and sets its password
• Creates a translation memory
• Creates a new project (deleting old project with same name if it exists)
• Assigns the TM to the project
• Uploads a DOCX file in chunks and imports it into the project for translation
• Pre-translates the document
• Calculates a fuzzy analysis and fetches the result as a CSV string
• Assigns the document to the user

To try the code yourself

Check out the repository and edit two constants at the top of Program.cs:

const string baseUrl = "https://my-memoq-server.com/memoqservices";
const string apiKey = "<my API key>";

Replace the URL with your memoQ server's URL, and insert your own API key. You can find the API key in the Server Administrator:

Running the code:

• On Windows, open the solution in Visual Studio and start debugging
• On Linux:

dotnet restore
dotnet run

Nasty .NET Core details

• You need .NET Core 1.0.4 to run the code. 1.0.X and 1.1.X versions are a tremendous version hell, colloquially known as a classic Microsoft clusterluck. The solution root includes a global.json file, and the project folder includes a .csproj file to make things easier. If all else fails, check out https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core and https://jonhilton.net/2017/04/17/making-sense-of-the-different-versions-of-net-core-runtime-and-sdk/
• To generate the files in Interfaces you need SvcUtil.exe on Windows. See GenerateStubs.cmd. But you can simply use the files that are included in the solution. They match the API as of memoQ server 8.1.
• In Visual Studio you can supposedly use the "WCF Connected Service" tool from https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=erikcai-MSFT.VisualStudioWCFConnectedService. I for my part couldn't get it to work.
• For a great concise guide, check out http://tattoocoder.com/asp-net-core-getting-clean-with-soap/.
• If you're using a different language/platform, you already know how to deal with SOAP APIs by consuming the WSDL returned by the service. For the exact URIs of the endpoints, see GenerateStubs.cmd.

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