# ArchiveService v3

# Introduction

The ArchiveService API can be used to access documents that are stored in Signicat’s archive.

All documents in the archive is identified with a unique archive reference. The archive reference is neccesary to access the document. Documents has no metadata and there is no functionality for searching for documents.

# Location

The WSDL for the service is available at:

Infrastructure	Location
Pre-production	https://preprod.signicat.com/ws/archiveservice-v3?wsdl
Production	https://id.signicat.com/ws/archiveservice-v3?wsdl

# List of methods

Method	Description
getDocument	https://preprod.signicat.com/ws/archiveservice-v3?wsdl
removeDocument	https://id.signicat.com/ws/archiveservice-v3?wsdl

# Mandatory parameters in all requests

All requests requires these mandatory parameters for authentication.

Name	Data type	Description
version	String	Should be “3.0”
service	String	The name of the customer service (the customer account).
password	String	The password for this service. This is different in preprod and production.

# getDocument

# Purpose

This method is used for retrieving a document from the archive.

# Parameters

Name	Data type	Description
archive-id	String	Unique archive identifier. Identifies the document to be retrieved.

# Return value

Name	Data type	Description
archive-id	String	Unique archive identifier. Identifies the document to be retrieved.
mime-type	String	The document’s mime-type.
data	Base64	Base64 encoded binary data. This is the document.

# removeDocument

# Purpose

This method is used for removing a document in the archive. The service will try to remove all documents in the input list. The return value will list all documents that was actually removed. This method will accept an archive-id that does not exist. In the case of failure, this method call can be repeated with the same input several times.

# Parameters

Name	Data type	Description
archive-id	List of String	A list of unique archive-id’s for the documents to be removed.

# Return value

Name	Data type	Description
archive-id	List of String	A list of unique archive-id’s for the documents that actually was removed.