It is generally considered to be bad practice in the design of Web API or REST APIs that two URLs point to the same resources. Also I would think that people who want to juggle between existing web functionality and Web API, would like to use internal IDs to get the UID and then use the UID for web API calls. This makes it more flexible to use and switch between the two IDs depending what functionality you want to use, either from core web interface (uses IDs) or Web API (uses UIDs)
--- Regards, Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA From: janhenrik.overl...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 16:57:26 +0100 Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] Web API - Search by id To: sun...@gmail.com CC: dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net It's just for convenience. If you make an app that looks up organisation units by id, code or name you won't have to change the base url based on the parameter. On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sun...@gmail.com> wrote: Why would one use the search at all in this case of using the UID? You can directly get the resource with the UID http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/organisationUnits/ImspTQPwCqd gives Sierra Leone http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/organisationUnits/search/Sierra%20Leone is the search --- Regards, Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA From: janhenrik.overl...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 16:36:25 +0100 Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] Web API - Search by id To: sun...@gmail.com CC: dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net Hi, try the uid. For a web API user there is only one id (which is the uid). We don't want to confuse him by saying "uid" in the docs as it implies that there is an "id" as well. On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sun...@gmail.com> wrote: The Web API documentation here: http://www.dhis2.org/doc/snapshot/en/user/html/ch25s04.html suggests that you can search a resource by its id, code and name. I tried the following: http://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/organisationUnits/search/559 But it says Object not found for query: 559 So, does it only work for code and name and not for id? --- Regards, Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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