Web Service Responses

The response from a web service request will change depending on the type of request sent. Some responses contain an array of information, others only HTTP Status codes. The example return arrays shown have been decoded from JSON for readability.

Read (GET)

Read, or GET requests, return an array of information, including any records found to match the given criteria. The response array is structured to handle paginated requests, and includes a 'list' of the records on the current page.

Return Attributes

self: The current page being viewed

first: The first page in the data set

last: The last page in the data set. If this matches the value in first, the data set has been returned in full in the list option.

next: The next page in the data set, following the current page, self

prev: The previous page in the data set, preceding the current page, self

list: The data range of the current self request page

Example Response

A request to verify enrollment of user 200 in course 300, where the user is enrolled in the course. The call http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment.json?uid=200&nid=300 will return the following:

Response with values

stdClass Object
(
    [self] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?uid=200&nid=300 // The current page the list value displaying information
    [first] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?uid=200&nid=300&page=0
    [last] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?uid=200&nid=300&page=0
    [list] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object
                (
                    [eid] => 185
                    [nid] => stdClass Object
                        (
                            [uri] => http://your-domain.com/node/310
                            [id] => 310
                            [resource] => node
                            [uuid] => 9aabcf09-58c3-4679-85b3-c5f7ddc93ac6
                        )

                    [uid] => stdClass Object
                        (
                            [uri] => http://your-domain.com/user/200
                            [id] => 200
                            [resource] => user
                            [uuid] => ba5bc8af-25d7-48de-bb54-87ae70ac33b5
                        )

                    [enrollmenttype] => 
                    [status] => 1
                    [created] => 1459800985
                    [timestamp] => 1459800985
                    [enroll_end] => 0
                    [code] => 
                    [user_type] => 
                    [data] => 
                    [feed_nid] => 
                )
        )
)

A request to verify enrollment of user 200 in course 400, where the user is not enrolled in the course. The call http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment.json?uid=200&nid=400 will return the following:

Response without values

stdClass Object
(
    [self] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?uid=200&nid=400 // The current page the list value displaying information
    [first] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?uid=200&nid=400&page=0
    [last] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?uid=200&nid=400&page=0
    [list] => [] 
)

A request for all enrollments in the system, http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment.json will return the following:

Initial response with multple pages

stdClass Object
(
    [self] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment
    [first] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?page=0
    [last] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?page=3
    [next] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?page=1
    [list] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object{ ... }
            [1] => stdClass Object{ ... }
            [2] => stdClass Object{ ... }
			...
        )
)

A request to review the second page of results from all enrollments in the system, http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment.json?page=1 will return the following:

View page response

stdClass Object
(
    [self] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?page=1
    [first] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?page=0
    [last] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?page=3
    [prev] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?page=0
    [next] => http://your-domain.com/course_enrollment?page=2
    [list] => Array
        (
            [0] => stdClass Object{ ... }
            [1] => stdClass Object{ ... }
            [2] => stdClass Object{ ... }
			...
        )
)

Create (POST)

Creation requests return an array of basic information about the new created entity. The HTTP status code returned will be 201 CREATED for successful requests.

Return Attributes

uri: The web URI

id: The entity id

resource: The entity type

uuid: The unique universal id

Example Responses

A user creation call.

View page response

stdClass Object
(
    [uri] => http://74.localhost/user/200
    [id] => 200
    [resource] => user
    [uuid] => 2fd044c5-ff4a-4bfe-8472-9b9b56eb0fc6
)

See the full request at Creating a user via web service

Update (PUT)

Delete (DELETE)

Delete requests do not return any data, other than the HTTP headers, which can be used to verify success. A status code of 200, indicates a successful deletion call

Return Attributes

None

Example Request

View page response

  $curl = curl_init("http://74.localhost/course_credit_awarded/214");
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'DELETE');
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("X-CSRF-Token: $token", "Content-Type: application/json"));
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "restws_webservice:webservice_password"); //Your credentials goes here
  curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

  print 'Deleting...';
  $json = curl_exec($curl);
  $cinfo = curl_getinfo($curl);
  $response = json_decode($json);
  if($cinfo['http_code'] == 200 && empty($response)){
	print 'The entity has been deleted'.
  }