The first shipment

In case you already use your own client: Before you start with your first shipment in your own client make sure that your Carrier Connect client is set up with some first basic data:

Basic master data: terms of delivery, package types, company, workstation
Basic carrier data: You or your AEB project manager needs to set up the carrier account. The data for the carrier account are given in the carrier questionnaire that needs to be filled by the carrier partly. If the questionnaire is not completely filled at this point in time you can start with random test data.

To allow you to start quickly, you will find here a complete call to create a shipment and receive a typical response.

Creating a shipment

You can use the example and copy/paste it into your favorite tool to test SOAP and/or REST API calls (The XML example below refers to SOAP. For REST XML please see: https://rz3.aeb.de/test2cai/swagger/#/). Our test environment is prepared to work with the data in this example.
Why don't you just give it a quick try?

{
   "clientSystemId":"SOAPUI",
   "clientIdentCode":"APITEST",
   "userName":"API_TEST",
   "resultLanguageIsoCodes":[
      "EN"
   ],
   "creationParms":{
      "creationMode":"VALIDATION_OK"
   },
   "shipment":{
      "transactionId":"SHIPMENT_TEST_1",
      "transactionLabel":"SHIPMENT_TEST_1",
      "referenceNumber1":"SHIPMENT_TEST_1",
      "shippingDate":"2018-01-01",
      "contents":"SHIPMENT_CONTENT",
      "shippingPt":{
         "companyNumber":"D01",
         "initFromCompanyMasterFileData":"true"
      },
      "consignee":{
         "companyNumber":"D07",
         "name":"Max Muster",
         "initFromCompanyMasterFileData":"true"
      },
      "consigneeContact":{
         "name":"Max Muster",
         "phone":"0049123456789"
      },
      "carrierIdentCode":"DPD_DE",
      "serviceCode":"DPD_EXPR10",
      "termsOfDeliveryCode":"DDP",
      "packages":[
         {
            "packageTypeIdentCode":"BOX",
            "packageNumber":"1",
            "packageTransactionId":"PACKAGE_TEST_1",
            "referenceNumber1":"PACKAGE_TEST_1",
            "grossWeight":{
               "value":"25",
               "unit":"kg"
            }
         }
      ]
   },
   "processParms":{
      "processMode":{
         "mode":"EXTENDED"
      },
      "documentPrepareScope":{
         "scope":"ALL"
      },
      "workstationId":"PDF_WORKSTATION",
      "documentOutputScope":{
         "scope":"ALL"
      },
      "documentOutputMode":{
         "mode":"RETURN"
      },
      "doCompletion":"true"
   }
}

<createShipment>
   <request>
      <clientSystemId>SOAPUI</clientSystemId>
      <clientIdentCode>APITEST</clientIdentCode>
      <userName>API_TEST</userName>
      <resultLanguageIsoCodes>EN</resultLanguageIsoCodes>
      <creationParms>
         <creationMode>VALIDATION_OK</creationMode>
      </creationParms>
      <shipment>
         <transactionId>SHIPMENT_TEST_1</transactionId>
         <transactionLabel>SHIPMENT_TEST_1</transactionLabel>
         <referenceNumber1>SHIPMENT_TEST_1</referenceNumber1>
         <shippingDate>2018-01-01</shippingDate>
         <contents>SHIPMENT_CONTENT</contents>
         <shippingPt>
            <companyNumber>D01</companyNumber>
            <initFromCompanyMasterFileData>true</initFromCompanyMasterFileData>
         </shippingPt>
         <consignee>
            <companyNumber>D07</companyNumber>
            <name>Max Muster</name>
            <initFromCompanyMasterFileData>true</initFromCompanyMasterFileData>
         </consignee>
         <consigneeContact>
            <name>Max Muster</name>
            <phone>0049123456789</phone>
         </consigneeContact>
         <carrierIdentCode>DPD_DE</carrierIdentCode>
         <serviceCode>DPD_EXPR10</serviceCode>
         <termsOfDeliveryCode>DDP</termsOfDeliveryCode>
         <packages>
            <packageTypeIdentCode>BOX</packageTypeIdentCode>
            <packageNumber>1</packageNumber>
            <packageTransactionId>PACKAGE_TEST_1</packageTransactionId>
            <referenceNumber1>PACKAGE_TEST_1</referenceNumber1>
            <grossWeight>
               <value>25</value>
               <unit>kg</unit>
            </grossWeight>
         </packages>
      </shipment>
      <processParms>
         <processMode>
            <mode>EXTENDED</mode>
         </processMode>
         <documentPrepareScope>
            <scope>ALL</scope>
         </documentPrepareScope>
         <workstationId>PDF_WORKSTATION</workstationId>
         <documentOutputScope>
            <scope>ALL</scope>
         </documentOutputScope>
         <documentOutputMode>
            <mode>RETURN</mode>
         </documentOutputMode>
         <doCompletion>true</doCompletion>
      </processParms>
   </request>
</createShipment>

Receiving an error

Below is an API call which will return an error. This will demonstrate the structure of an error response and will allow you to become familiar with the general behavior.
You will receive this message once you remove clientSystemId from the above request.

{
   "hasErrors":"true",
   "hasOnlyRetryableErrors":"false",
   "hasWarnings":"false",
   "messages":{
      "messageType":"ERROR",
      "messageIdentCode":"EMPTY_MANDATORY_FIELD",
      "messageTexts":{
         "languageISOCode":"en",
         "text":"Client system id not filled."
      },
      "indentationLevel":"0"
   }
}

<createShipmentResponse>
   <result>
      <hasErrors>true</hasErrors>
      <hasOnlyRetryableErrors>false</hasOnlyRetryableErrors>
      <hasWarnings>false</hasWarnings>
      <messages>
         <messageType>ERROR</messageType>
         <messageIdentCode>EMPTY_MANDATORY_FIELD</messageIdentCode>
         <messageTexts>
            <languageISOCode>en</languageISOCode>
            <text>Client system id not filled.</text>
         </messageTexts>
         <indentationLevel>0</indentationLevel>
      </messages>
   </result>
</createShipmentResponse>