Web services

Indicia’s web services are a key component of the Indicia warehouse, since all interactions between the client website and the warehouse are via web services. This approach means there is no practical difference between hosting your client website on the same machine as the warehouse or hosting it on the other side of the globe. The web services are effectively a set of functions that can be called remotely, for example functions which return data, allow addition of records to the warehouse, or perform utility calculations such as spatial reference transformations where these can’t be handled on the client.

Tip

Indicia now has a growing RESTful web service for reading reports and certain other types of data. See Indicia’s RESTful web services

• Authentication Overview
  • Nitty Gritty
• Authentication using the Client Helpers
• Reading data via the data services
  • Attaching XSL to XML output
• Data Services - list of available entities
  • Warehouse core entities
• Data Services - taxa_search service
  • Parameters
  • Response
• Data Services - reading a record
  • Examples
    • Example 1 - basic attributes of occurrence ID 10 in JSON format
    • Example 2 - information on a taxon group, including column and count
    • Example 3 - detailed attributes of occurrence ID 10 in XML format
• Data Services - reading a dataset
  • Filtering
  • Sorting
  • Examples
    • Example 1 - retrieve all taxon groups
• Data Services - reading data using the Client Helpers API
  • Example 1 - reading a record using the Client Helpers API in PHP
• Data Services - writing data
• Data Submission Format
  • Value data types
  • Sending custom attributes
  • Automatic foreign key lookup
  • Super and sub-models
  • A real example
• Data Services - writing data using the Client Helpers API
• Web services - errors
  • Error codes
• Writing data to the Data Services tutorial
• Reporting Services
• User Identifiers
  • How it works
• Security Services Details
  • Security Services API
    • security/get_nonce
    • security/get_read_nonce
    • security/get_read_write_nonces
    • user_identifier/get_user_id
  • How to write authentication code tutorial
• Import Services
• Spatial Services
• Validation Services
• Web Services Code Illustration