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[Jan Henrik Øverland <janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>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.overland@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 16:36:25 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] Web API - Search by id
> To: sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> 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 <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx>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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