4.2.3 Request for List of Cubes

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The client sends a header for an MDSCHEMA_CUBES request:

 POST /as/msmdpump.dll HTTP/1.1
 User-Agent: XmlaClient
 Content-Type: text/xml
 SOAPAction: "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:Discover"
 X-Transport-Caps-Negotiation-Flags: 1,0,0,0,0
 Host: testserver:2390
 Content-Length: 571
 Expect: 100-continue

The server responds with a confirmation:

 HTTP/1.1 100 Continue

The client sends the payload portion of the request:

 <Envelope xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <Header>
     <XA:Session soap:mustUnderstand="1" SessionId="537C61C6-827C-4305-83A6-C8CE4A91001B" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:XA="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis" />
   </Header>
   <Body>
     <Discover xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis">
       <RequestType>MDSCHEMA_CUBES</RequestType>
       <Restrictions></Restrictions>
       <Properties><PropertyList><Content>Data</Content></PropertyList></Properties>
     </Discover>
   </Body>
 </Envelope>

The server responds with an empty list of cubes:

 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:30:34 GMT
 Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
 Transfer-Encoding: chunked
 X-Transport-Caps-Negotiation-Flags: 0,0,0,0,0
 Content-Type: text/xml
 208
 <soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
   <soap:Body>
     <DiscoverResponse xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis" xmlns:ddl2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine/2" xmlns:ddl2_2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/analysisservices/2003/engine/2/2">
       <return>
         <root xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-analysis:rowset" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
       </return>
     </DiscoverResponse>
   </soap:Body>
 </soap:Envelope>