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Re: [Dhis2-devs] Automating DHIS2

 

Den 8. nov. 2010 kl. 11.07 skrev Jason Pickering:

> Thanks Jo. :).  Guess I should have read the curl manual. :) That
> worked like a charm. I have very, very basic needs at this point,
> which consist essentially of being able to trigger data mart export
> and report table generation at a scheduled time. That's it.

Curl is definitely a good tool for the job :)

> Perhaps 2.0.6 will take care of it, but in the meantime, curl can press the
> button for me. Of course, having a more cleanly defined series of REST
> services would be very useful I think, but I am not sure the demand is
> huge.

I think the demand will slowly grow with time, so we should probably try to take at least some baby steps soon. 

Required note: As long as we don't call it REST :) REST imples a hypermedia-driven application, so let's stick to calling it what it would probably be: a simple web api.

Jo


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