Printing a DPD Label from API

[Jason hall]

Hi,

I am after some help with the software. Basically I manage website in house and my employer wanted DPD integration for create shipments and printing labels.

All is integrated fine and the response I get back from the DPD API is in the below format as a json response. However json_decode (php) ends up outputting a blank page so just outputting the regular response results in the format below, however without linebreaks, just one continuous string. Can anyone help me please?

\M3000\c0000\e\O0220\f290\n\a\LD11PISIH12 

2911A0803340387DPD 

2911A0603500375www.dpd.co.uk 

1911A1003800095Responsible Delivery - CO Neutral 

1911A08037802572 

2911A0603780354Sender 

2911A0603780346GEOPOSTUK LTD 

2911A0603780338ROEBUCK LANE 

2911A0603780330SMETHWICK 

2911A0603780322BIRMINGHAM 

2911A0603780314WEST MIDLANDS 

2911A0603780306B66 1BY 

2911A0603330303Phone:0121 500 2500 

2911A0603160354Account:304556 

2911A0603780293Delivery Address 

1911A1003640008GEOPOSTUK LTD 

1911A1003520008ROEBUCK LANE 

1911A1003400008SMETHWICK 

1911A1003280008BIRMINGHAM 

1911A1003160008WEST MIDLANDS 

1911A1003040008B66 1BY 

1911A1003040101United Kingdom 

151100003040247 

1911A0602950008Contact 

1911A0602860008Phone 

1911A0602610008Consignment 

1911A0602520008Ref 

1911A0602770008Info 

1911A0802930059MY CONTACT 

1911A08028400590121 500 2500 

1911A0602770059PLEASE DELIVER WITH NEIGH 

1911A0602690059BOUR 

1911A08025900595396871197

[Tres Finocchiaro]

Ate you sure there are no linebreaks?  If you are echoing this to a DOM element it may strip out the \n's, etc.

What might be more desirable is to just try qz.appendFile("http://somepage?param1&param2"); directly rather than trying to parse and process the response.

Just take caution to wait for qzDoneAppending() as the appendFile samples illustrate as to allow the same asynchronous behavior.

Is this message response proprietary to your company or provided by a well known 3rd party?  If there's something code-wise we can do to increase compatibility with a well known 3rd party, let me know and I can study the data stream and provide some convenience methods to ease the consumption of the data.

[Jason hall]

It gives spaces where the line breaks should be when echoed via php into a browser. If i set the header in php to json then it gives me linebreaks, however the top line according to DPD is supposed to have slashes which seem to get replaced with hidden characters when echoing.

It is a well known third party (DPD). Basically this is the code to get the label from the DPD API.

//get label

$url = "https://api.dpd.co.uk/shipping/shipment/".$shipid."/label/";

$content = json_encode($named_array);

$curl = curl_init($url);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,

array("Content-type: application/json",

"Accept: text/vnd.citizen-clp ",

"GEOSession: ".$gsession."")

);

$json_response = curl_exec($curl);

$status = curl_getinfo($curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

if ( $status != 200 ) {

die("Error: call to URL $url failed with status $status, response $json_response, curl_error " . curl_error($curl) . ", curl_errno " . curl_errno($curl)); 

} 

curl_close($curl); 

echo $json_response;

The last line outputs to a browser for testing purposes with no line breaks. If I include "header('Content-type: application/json');" before the code, then it will give me line breaks but the top line looks like  M3000 c0000 e O0220 f290 n a LD11PISIH12 but it should be \M3000\c0000\e\O0220\f290\n\a\LD11PISIH12

If this is all to do with echoing then that's fine, however I am still lost how I get all that data into this qz thing. From what I understand I have to use the ESCP function and insert the string into qz.append() However from what I understand it has to be done line by line.


I'm lost, I've never dealt with anything like this before at all :(

Any and all help is very much appreciated.

[Tres Finocchiaro]

Yes, I'm lost too as the data you're providing doesn't match anything I'm familiar with.

Can you send me the raw data in a few different formats so that I can take a look at it?  Please feel free to send file attachments via email directly to tres.fi...@gmail.com

-Tres

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Sorry, typo:

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[jc...@doc-net.com]

Hi!

Have you found a solution?
I need to use the same format from DPD with a Citizien printer.

I haven't tried yet but it would be good to know if qz can handle this format or not.

Thanks!

[Tres Finocchiaro]

Have you found a solution?

No, I think I was waiting to hear from you...   Did you responded to this question?

Can you send me the raw data in a few different formats so that I can take a look at it?  Please feel free to send file attachments via email directly to tres.fi...@gmail.com

 

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[Tres Finocchiaro]

Status update.... We've recently had a client notify us that changing the HTTP header information to text/plain fixed this.

This particular client chose to use Content-Type: text/vnd.citizen-clp”

-Tres

[Jozsef Cseh]

Hi Tres,

Thank you for the feedback. We found the same solution and it's working fine.

Right now I have another issue with printing a PDF label. I've got a completely blank label as a result. I also tried the latest plugin with QZ Tray.

I saw that there is a solution to print a PDF file base64 encoded. 

Can you help me how to this? I tried to base64 encode the source and send out an extra 

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

header but it doesn't seem to work.

Thank you

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[Tres Finocchiaro]

Try using plain text and using this syntax:

qz.append64("data:application/pdf;base64,Ck4KcTYw...")

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[Tres Finocchiaro]

Typo... 

qz.appendPDF("data:application/pdf;base64,Ck4KcTYw...")

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[Amin Aftabtalab]

Hi 

Does anyone of you know what is the general format language for Dpd label? 

Does Dpd supprting ZPL,DPL,EPL ? 

thx 

[Tres Finocchiaro]

I believe they support both PDF and ZPL as well as both 203DPI and 300DPI.

Which API are you using?  I found one for Romania and one for the Netherlands, so I'm not sure if they're redundant or regional services, etc.

https://api.dpd.ro/web-api.html#href-label-inf-req

https://api.dpdconnect.nl/swagger/index.html#/default/label

The Netherlands documentation specifically states "Label in PDF format".

I would recommend reaching out to DPD support for more information.  

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[Elif GÜLLAÇ]

Hi,

i'm trying to convert the bender html format to pdf, but the html gets corrupted during the convert process do you have any library suggestions that I can use for php 5.6, or can anyone get the etiekti as pdf

11 Kasım 2022 Cuma tarihinde saat 00:13:16 UTC+3 itibarıyla Tres Finocchiaro şunları yazdı:

[Tres Finocchiaro]

Hi,

Can you please explain in full what you are trying to achieve?

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