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[vunda limbe <vundalon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David and Everybody,

I begun to learn what you told me, but I'm stucked at the begining. Do you
have an example of script that I can based on to build mine that work?
Thanks for your support.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:18 AM, David Huser <david.huser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Vunda
>
> The nature of a Web API is its openness to be used by any software. As a
> start, I would start in trying to understand how such an API works, which
> is based on "HTTP REST" principles.
> REST in layman's terms: http://www.looah.com/source/view/2284
> REST basics (IBM developers): https://www.ibm.com/
> developerworks/library/ws-restful/index.html
> Specification for DHIS2: https://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-
> docs/master/en/developer/html/dhis2_developer_manual_full.html
>
> As an example, the programming language Python can be used, which is
> installable on any system and is on Ubuntu by default. DHIS2 supports the
> transportation format JSON. There's a new library on github (
> https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-python, but have not tried it yet) or you
> can write your own.
> So a basic procedure would be:
>
> myscript.py
> 1. load a configuration of both APIs (username, url, passwords)
> 2. make a GET request to a specific endpoint of MoH API
> 3. validate, transform,... the received data
> 4. make a POST request to another specific endpoint of your other
> instance's API
>
> and then install a cronjob which calls this script with "* * * * * python
> myscript.py"
>
> Further extensions could be logging to a file and a mail notification if
> something goes wrong.
>
> I hope this can help a bit.
>
> Best regards
> David
>
>
>
>
> On 03.04.2016 08:34, vunda limbe wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
>
> I'm newbie on DHIS2. I implemented an instance that work for my
> organisation and I need to Interoperate with MOH instance to retrieve data
> each month for some health facilities.
> I need guidance on how to set up interoperability by using web API and how
> to create a cronjob that will fetch data from MOH instance to my instance
> each month.
>
> Could you please help me to find ressources (course, tutorials, step by
> step code, etc.) and advises on how to implement?
>
> Thank you all for your help.
>
>
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