{"id":2717,"date":"2022-11-08T13:08:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serviceobjects.wpaladdin.com\/?post_type=serviceobjects&#038;p=2717"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:05:58","slug":"dots-address-validation-canada-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-canada-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DOTS Address Validation &#8211; Canada 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2717\" class=\"elementor elementor-2717\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-40f0ac59 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"40f0ac59\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3e647fa4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3e647fa4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Introduction<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-db3dc05 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"db3dc05\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>DOTS Address Validation Canada 2 (AVCA2) is a publicly available XML web service that provides parsed and corrected information about a physical Canadian address. The service provides corrected information such as the correct street location and postal code as well as address fragments and locational metadata.<\/p><p>AVCA2 can provide instant address verification and correction to websites or enhancement to contact lists. However, the output from AVCA2 must be considered carefully before the existence or non-existence of an address is decided.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fac950c wp-block-group is-style-card-note elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fac950c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>If you are an existing client and are using the previous version of this service then please click on the following link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/legacy\/dots-address-validation-ca\/\">DOTS Address Validation CA<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3dc81252 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3dc81252\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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There you can test our recommended operation ValidateCanadianAddressV2.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-canada-2\/avca2-service-reference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Service Reference<\/a> <br \/>In this section, you\u2019ll 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.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-canada-2\/avca2-frequently-asked-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/a> <br \/>This is a list of some of the questions we hear more often that you can reference and get answers on right away.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-13440602272\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-13440602272\" data-tab-index=\"2\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 2;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-34c8b786 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"34c8b786\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-256eb355 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"256eb355\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Integration Basics<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7bd34870 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7bd34870\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Integrating AVCA2 into your application should be easy and straightforward. If you are using a common platform, Service Objects may already have sample code built that you can use: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/developers\/sample-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/developers\/sample-code\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, if you are using a common platform that does not already have sample code, you can ask Service Objects to build you an example. Email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:support@serviceobjects.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support@serviceobjects.com<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/p>\n<p><br><strong>Web Service Structure:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Web services are methods that integrate with other applications via the web, and encapsulate tricky business logic. Web services are too large of a topic to cover in this document, but Service Objects has developed its web services to be as easy to integrate and as accessible as possible. AVCA is a public XML web service that supports SOAP, POST and GET operations.<\/p>\n<p><br><strong>The host path, or physical location of the web service is here:<\/strong>\u00a0<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trial.serviceobjects.com\/avca2\/api.svc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/trial.serviceobjects.com\/avca2\/api.svc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br><strong>A test page for the recommended operation can be found here:<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-canada-2\/avca2-try-the-api\/\">AVCA2 \u2013 Try The API<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br><strong>See the service references and try the other operations here:<br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-canada-2\/avca2-service-reference\/\">AVCA2 \u2013 Service Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br><strong>The location of the WSDL, or Web Service Definition Language document, is here\u00a0(This is also accessible via the \u201cService Definition\u201d link.):\u00a0<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/trial.serviceobjects.com\/avca2\/api.svc?WSDL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/trial.serviceobjects.com\/avca2\/api.svc?WSDL<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7a7da72b wp-block-group is-style-card-note elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7a7da72b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Important Notes!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>This XML is the definition of the web service, meaning its inputs, outputs, operations, and the like.\u00a0 Most likely, you will have another tool read this WSDL and make the operations available to you in your application.\u00a0 Whenever your utilities or IDE asks for a WSDL path to AV-CA, you can provide this one.<\/li>\n<li>SOAP is done via POST, only with special XML markup in the post-body.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-707672d1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"707672d1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Every web service has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-canada-2\/avca2-operations\/\"><em>operations<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that it offers to subscribers \u2013 methods that do different work and return different output.\u00a0 Examining the link above, you will notice several of these operations available, which are described in detail later on.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction DOTS Address Validation Canada 2 (AVCA2) is a publicly available XML web service that provides parsed and corrected information about a physical Canadian address. 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