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Overview

These APIs provide a bulk load API for data that is published from the Online Directory system. If you need assistance with this APIs, please email middleware-api@ucdavis.edu.

Audience

This is currently the only interface available for this API. If you would like to see an XML interface please email middleware-api@ucdavis.edu.

Application requirements

Each request must provide a valid application key. You may sign up for your own application key here <INSERT LINK>.

During periods of peak usage, API requests may be throttled. 

Using the JSON interface

The easiest way to start learning about this interface is to try it out. This section shows how to use the curl command line tool to execute sample queries.

curl -i -H "Accept: application/json" https://iet-ws-test/directory/load?key=JPO3Dkljsd3Skjkdxxo3SJK00&v=1.0

This command performs a bulk load request (/directory/load). The response has a Content-Type of text/javascript.

{
  "responseData" : {
    "results" : [ {"firstName":"Curtis","lastName":"Bray","phone":"754-6199","deptNum":12345} ],
    "cursor" : {
               "estimatedResultCount": "20102",
               "currentIndex": 0,
               "moreResultsUrl": "https://iet-ws-test/ondir/load?start=500"
               }
  },
  "responseDetails" : null,
  "responseStatus" : 200
}

JSON reference

Request format

Response format

Each response follow this general format:

{
  "responseData" : {
    "results" : [],
    "cursor" : {}
  },
  "responseDetails" : null | string-on-error,
  "responseStatus" : 200 | error-code
}

Trouble shooting