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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are a number of extensions to Chrome which help with this. I
personally use "XMLTree" although this is not an endorsement of this
plugin. You can search the Chrome store for many such add-ons.

Best regards,
Jason



On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Brajesh Murari <brajjeshmurari@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Dear Maheed,
>
> Research & development of restful web services and its integration in
> existing DHIS2 frameworks begins with an empirical case study for providing
> solution to a very complex use case scenario in which one slandered
> statical application developed inside certain environment running on
> certain platform on certain virtual machine with certain attached database
> with certain object relational data base schema can communicate with
> another similar statical application developed in different environment
> running on different platform on different virtual machine with different
> data base with different object relational schema.
>
> Here in DHIS2, we achieved solution for this complex scenario by developing
> an intermediate middle-ware application programme interface or we can say
> like an intermediate component like DHIS2 WEB-API or more simply we can say
> like a connector which brings an intermediate interface from where DHIS2
> can communicate with other similar statical application or multiple
> applications like one to one or one to many relationship.
>
> Interesting thing in DHIS2 WEB-API brings intermediate communication
> between another multiple applications, and for that it follow certain rules
> and regulation which we can say like protocol for communication like
> http,ftp,sftp etc and on the top of these protocol  these multiple statical
> applications interact with each other and exchange some data as per the
> request in the form of expected representational state like
> json,xml,cvs,atom etc with each other and this way we solve these complex
> issues.
>
> Perhaps, I think as per your request and query which evolves with two
> different aspects in which one addresses issue for understanding and doing
> certain DHIS2 application programme interface analytical study for that you
> are looking to access demo web-api with certain request with data and
> another you have find some result as response in certain format of data
> that you seems might be not as expected and has been addressed as an
> web-appl bug.
>
> If i am right, than for your first query, i think DHIS2 restful web-api
> services is not as the exact tool for doing this analytical study. Rather,
> you can take a help of DHIS2-API documentation, please find as i have
> attached in the attachment. And second, it returns with some data in the
> form of response after sending some http request, which does't brings data
> as should be expected and might be treated as bug in existing functionality
> and should be resolved in up-comming releases.
>
> Brajesh
>
>
> From: Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:17:58 +0100
> > Subject: Re: [Dhis2-users] [Dhis2-devs]  API resources navigation
> > To: Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: dhis2-users <dhis2-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > "dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dhis2-devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Yes that will be nice.  I also miss the api navigation ... didn't realize
> > how much I used it till it went :-(
> >
> >
> > On 25 August 2014 15:08, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Maheed,
> > > This is intentional. We do agree that the previous interface was much
> > > easier to navigate, but it had other  issues that needed fixing. We
> hope
> > > someone can create a nice App with as nice (or even nicer) navigation
> as
> > > before - probably it could be a student project this fall.
> > >
> > > Knut
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Maheed Ramadan <maheed.ramadan@xxxxxx
> >
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >>  Dear All,
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I have the latest version of DHIS 2.16 and I am trying to access the
> > >> api/resources endpoint in my browser and the following result is
> > displaying:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> In the previous version 2.15, the API result was a formatted HTML page
> > >> where you can actually navigate the links and view the details of each
> > API
> > >> easily.
> > >>
> > >> Even the demo version at è https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/resources
> is
> > >> showing the same result.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> I also tried to access the web api from Excel è
> > >> https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/resources.json , and it is returning
> > the
> > >> following error :
> > >>
> > >> DataFormat.Error: Expected value, found '<'.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Is this a bug in DHIS 2.16 or am I missing something here?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Awaiting your feedback.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Thank you.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Maheed
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Knut Staring
> > > Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
> > > +4791880522
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