Reading from Workday using .NET

Workday is a huge HR service and many companies are moving. Trying to figure out how to interact with Workday has been difficult. Mostly because there are so few samples available.  Workday has lots of documentation on their API, but because the objects are nested/nested/nested, it make it convoluted to figure out exactly where you need to go.

So here I'm putting out how to read a user from the Human Resources WSDL.

Before you can actually get this code to work you have to create reference file using svcutil then modify it because it creates 2 and 3 dimensional arrays.  This is a problem with Visual Studio.
See here for the pre-reqs and how to fix the Human_Resources.cs file

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   empId = "12345";

                    var request = new Get_Workers_RequestType { version = "v22.0" };
                   
                    var workerId = new WorkerObjectIDType()
                    {
                        type = "Employee_ID",
                        Value = empId
                    };

                    var idTypes = new List { workerId };
                    request.Request_References = new Worker_Request_ReferencesType { Worker_Reference = new WorkerObjectType[1] { new WorkerObjectType() } };                  
                    request.Request_References.Worker_Reference[0].ID = idTypes.ToArray();
                    request.Request_Criteria = new Worker_Request_CriteriaType
                    {
                        Exclude_Inactive_Workers = true,
                        Exclude_Inactive_WorkersSpecified = true
                    };

                    var proxy =  CreateHumanResourcesProxy();

                    Get_Workers_ResponseType response = null;
                    try
                    {
                        response = proxy.Get_Workers(request);
                        Console.WriteLine(response.Response_Data.FirstOrDefault());
                        string first = response.Response_Data.FirstOrDefault().Worker_Data.Personal_Data.Name_Data.Preferred_Name_Data.Name_Detail_Data.First_Name;
                        string last = response.Response_Data.FirstOrDefault().Worker_Data.Personal_Data.Name_Data.Preferred_Name_Data.Name_Detail_Data.Last_Name;
                        Console.WriteLine(first + " " + last);
                    }
                    catch (FaultException fe)
                    {
                        // _logger.LogError("Error occurred invoking GetWorker", fe);
                        //return null;
                        Console.WriteLine("error " + fe.Message);
                    }


 public static Human_ResourcesPortClient CreateHumanResourcesProxy()
        {
            SecurityBindingElement sb = SecurityBindingElement.CreateUserNameOverTransportBindingElement();
            sb.IncludeTimestamp = false;
            const int lim = Int32.MaxValue;
            var timeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(2);

            var cb = new CustomBinding(
                sb,
                new TextMessageEncodingBindingElement(MessageVersion.Soap11, Encoding.UTF8)
                {
                   
                    ReaderQuotas = new System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas
                    {
                        MaxDepth = lim,
                        MaxStringContentLength = lim,
                        MaxArrayLength = lim,
                        MaxBytesPerRead = lim,
                        MaxNameTableCharCount = lim
                    }
                },
                new HttpsTransportBindingElement
                {
                    MaxBufferPoolSize = lim,
                    MaxReceivedMessageSize = lim,
                    MaxBufferSize = lim,
                    Realm = string.Empty
                })
            {
                SendTimeout = timeout,
                ReceiveTimeout = timeout
            };

            var proxy = new Human_ResourcesPortClient(cb, new EndpointAddress("https://wd5-impl-services1.workday.com/ccx/service//Human_Resources/v23.2"));

            proxy.ClientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "userName@tenant";
            proxy.ClientCredentials.UserName.Password = "pass";
            return proxy;
        }

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Keep in mind this will work with a worktype of Employee.  You have to change a few things for a Contingent Worker.