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[Brajesh Murari <brajesh.murari@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx> 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)

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Regards,
Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA


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From: janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 16:57:26 +0100
Subject: Re: [Dhis2-devs] Web API - Search by id
To: sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx
CC: dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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
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>Regards,
>Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
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>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
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>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.
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>On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Saptarshi Purkayastha <sunbiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>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 
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>>Object not found for query: 559
So, does it only work for code and name and not for id?
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>>Regards,
>>Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA
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