Introduction

DOTS Name Validation 2 is an XML and JSON RESTful web service that provides information about a person’s name. With DOTS Name Validation 2, users can validate names, verify name accuracy, fix unordered names and return gender information.

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Developer Guide Map

  • Operations
    This section lists the DOTS Name Validation 2 operations and goes into the details behind the inputs and outputs. 
    Operations:
  • Options and Codes
    This section shows additional supporting data tables returned by DOTS Name Validation 2 operations.
  • Errors
    This section reflects details on the error outputs that can happen with the service.
  • Code Snippets and Sample Code
    Here you’ll find code snippets for various programming languages and frameworks along with links to our sample code page on the web site.
  • Try The API
    This is where you’ll go to take the API for a spin.  There you can test our recommended operation NameInfoV2.
  • Service Reference
    In this section you’ll find all the different endpoints supported by this service, input and output schema information as well as an opportunity to try the other endpoints as well.
  • Frequently Asked Questions
    This is a list of some of the questions we hear more often that you can reference and get answers on right away.

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The location of the WSDL, or Web Service Definition Language document, is here:
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Important Note!

  1. SOAP is done via POST, only with special XML markup in the post-body.

The WSDL is an XML document that defines the interaction web service, meaning its inputs, outputs, operations, and the like. Most likely, you will have another tool read this WSDL and make the operations available to you in your application via some type of proxy class. Whenever your utilities or IDE asks for a WSDL path, you can provide this one. Every web service has operations that it offers to subscribers. These operations, also called methods, contain different functionality and return different outputs.