← Back to team overview

dhis2-devs team mailing list archive

Re: Support for comma delimited identifiers in the API?

 

Spring calls these Matrix Variables and is very easy to support using
Spring MVC.
http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.htm

I like the idea.

---
Regards,
Saptarshi PURKAYASTHA

On 11 December 2013 05:49, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi there.
>
>  I have been working with another REST API recently and one of the
> features is the support for comma delimited lists as part of a API request.
> From this example from the docs..
>
> curl "http://apps.dhis2.org/dev/api/completeDataSetRegistrations?dataSet=pBOMPrpg1QX&dataSet=BfMAe6Itzgt&startDate=2013-01-01&endDate=2013-01-31&orgUnit=YuQRtpLP10I&orgUnit=vWbkYPRmKyS&children=true"; -H "Accept:application/xml" -u admin:district -v
>
>
> It would be useful to support this request as well..
>
> curl "http://apps.dhis2.org/dev/api/completeDataSetRegistrations?dataSet=pBOMPrpg1QX&dataSet=BfMAe6Itzgt&startDate=2013-01-01&endDate=2013-01-31&orgUnit=YuQRtpLP10I,vWbkYPRmKyS&children=true"; -H "Accept:application/xml" -u admin:district -v
>
> In some cases, we have many dozens or hundreds of orgunit UIDs in the
> requests, and it might be just a bit simpler to have these delimited.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Jason
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs
> Post to     : dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>
>

Follow ups

References