I think its time to introduce and develop new module which should be based on
Simple Object Architecture Protocol (SOAP), as from the trail mail it shows
REST APIs are not in a position to provide secure layers for finding resources,
in other words we can say REST APIs are one of the biggest failure in DHIS2
application development. I would request to the list and the DHIS2 global
application development team to introduce some developer to work and try to
develop DHIS2 web api using SOAP but make sure the team engaged in development
of this new SOAP based api should not contain any married developer nor they
should be Post Graduate or Phd holder at all in any deciplene nor they should
be any consultant or solution architect. This team should belong to simple
developer with fresh mind and make sure that team should not contain any
developer who has all ready celebrated their silver jubilee in application
development.
Regards,
Brajesh Murari
On Monday, 4 November 2013 9:34 PM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sun...@gmail.com>
wrote:
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
>>
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