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[Greg Rowles <greg.rowles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Lars! Looks like the Oslo course work is the way to go. I assume
MongoDB is not part of any DHIS2 architecture currently in use?

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Lars Kristian Roland <lars@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> The DHIS2 Web API uses built-in functions from Spring MVC, which converts
> Java objects to various formats such as XML, JSON etc. Spring lets you
> deploy exisiting converters or allow you to write your own if you want some
> special format. Each of the API endpoints are Spring MVC controllers that
> handle the various REST-calls.
>
> You can see these controllers in
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs-core/dhis2/trunk/files/head:/dhis-2/dhis-web/dhis-web-api/src/main/java/org/hisp/dhis/webapi/controller/
>
> he slides from lectures 2, 3 and 4 of the INF5750 course (
> http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF5750/h14/lecture-presentations/
> ) gives you some background on how this is done. However, some of the calls
> in the API are a bit magical, which makes it a bit difficult to read, going
> beyond 'plain Spring MVC'.
>
> The API implementation is a module within DHIS2, so while it's modular,
> it's closely linked to the internal APIs and data models.
>
> Best regards,
> Lars
>
> Best regards,
> Lars
>
> 2014-12-05 11:35 GMT+01:00 Greg Rowles <greg.rowles@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Hi Devs
>>
>> Can anyone elaborate on the tools or systems used to present DHIS2 data
>> through the webAPI? I'm trying to understand how DHIS2's database interacts
>> with the webAPI to present output data. Is there a plugin/converter
>> installed alongside DHIS2 that runs in the background or is that built into
>> the java core that DHIS2 is built upon?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Greg
>>
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