Understanding SOAP API documentation

Hi Jaap,

Thanks for checking on the endpoints. I do realize that I missed the Authentication service in my previous list. This can be used to get a valid cookie for future calls, rather than including the authentication information directly in the call:

https://demo.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/PublicAPI/4.0/Auth.svc?wsdl

The constructors and methods are part of the automatically generated SOAP API documentation. In most cases, they would serve no practical purpose for calling the SOAP API, and you can safely ignore them. The properties would be the relevant items for using and calling the SOAP API.

The information we have on our SOAP API documentation page is the majority of our documentation. In your example above, using the GetFolderList SOAP API, most of those parameters are optional as they provide different choices for filtering out the list of all folders that the user has access to, but they are not all required for each call. Any optional parameters that you are not using should be removed from the call entirely, rather than left as blank or question marks since that can lead to errors in deserializing the incoming request. We do have some examples on our public GitHub page (https://www.github.com/Panopto) which may also help with getting started using the SOAP API.

For the call you have above, most of the request parameters can be removed entirely. The auth section above is optional since you may choose to instead send a cookie you have received using the Auth SOAP API, and remove that section entirely. On the other parameters, in this case they are used as option parameters for filtering the list of folders down to something more manageable. I have included an example below showing a successful request (without the userkey and password) to get a list of all folders a user has access to, without filtering, paginated using Panopto's default number of results per page:

Hi @Kevin Baum , thanks for the explanation and the resources, I successfully imported the wsdl files in SoupUI which is helpful. But I do have a few follow up questions on this.

Is it correct that all the main wsdl resources are the following or are there more?

• AccessManagement.svc?wsdl
• UserManagement.svc?wsdl
• SessionManagement.svc?wsdl
• RemoteRecorderManagement.svc?wsdl
• UsageReporting.svc?wsdl

If there are more, could you list them all?

Additionally I am trying to make sense of the Panopto API Documentation on this page: https://support.panopto.com/resource/APIDocumentation/Help/html/c40c21c6-dc7a-d822-8c99-b276ee8337c2.htm I recognize some properties from the responses of requests, but what is the purpose of the constructors and methods? And how do they relate to writing code to execute API requests?

What I'm missing is documentation of the SOAP requests to be able to know what kind of values are allowed / expected. The following XML as an example of the GetFoldersList request (retrieved from SoapUI) shows that almost all elements are optional, but if a critical one is missing I get an 500 Internal Server Error, without any indication which was missing, the error message only states "An error occurred deserializing the message. See server logs for details" and I don't have access to server logs: