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Parameters for List Request

Aug 27, 2009 07:31pm Scott Apprentice 8 posts	Hello, I am trying to supply some parameters for at GET request on /contacts. The server seems to be ignoring my attempts to limit the results! I have attached a small python script that I think should only return 2 results… Do you need to supply all the parameters in the request? Do you need to have an ‘outer’ request dictionary with JSON encoding? ie. {‘request’:{‘limit’:2}} Thanks. File Attachments contacts.txt (File Size: 1KB - Downloads: 284)

Aug 28, 2009 09:44am Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 3952 posts	Greetings Scott, By default all records will be returned so you actually don’t need to provide any parameters to the list to return data. For example, you can use https://secure.solve360.com/contacts or limit by providing the one parameter https://secure.solve360.com/contacts?limit=2 You don’t need a ‘outer’ request dictionary when using JSON encoding. If content-type is application/json your request body should be like this: {‘limit’:2} If using application/xml there should be a wrapping ‘outer’ request node e.g. <request></request> We tried a representative test using your example and were able to get the result we expected: Request: GET /contacts/ HTTP/1.1 Host: secure.solve360.com Authorization: Basic cGluZ0Bub3JhZGEuY29tOkJjUzBFODk4RzVSYlg2bDAwY2YzUmV4ODU1YjBnYjI0TmVvYjBiUjk= Content-Type: application/xml Accept: application/json Content-Length: 273 Connection: close <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <request><layout>1</layout><searchmode></searchmode><searchvalue></searchvalue> <filtermode></filtermode><filtervalue></filtervalue><special></special><limit>2</limit> <start></start><sortfield></sortfield><sortdir></sortdir></request> Response (2 contacts): {"141367":{"id":141367,"name":", ","parentid":138933,"flagged":false,"website":"","homephone":"","background":"", "businessphonemain":"","businessfax":"","homeaddress":"","businessaddress":"","cellularphone":"", "businessphonedirect":"","businessemail":"","lastname":"","firstname":",","personalemail":"test1@test.com", "created":"2009-08-27T04:12:34+00:00","viewed":"2009-08-27T04:12:34+00:00","updated":"2009-08-27T23:52:45+00:00"}, "141330":{"id":141330,"name":",","parentid":138933,"flagged":false,"website":"","homephone":"","background":"", "businessphonemain":"","businessfax":"","homeaddress":"","businessaddress":"","cellularphone":"", "businessphonedirect":"","businessemail":"","lastname":"","firstname":",","personalemail":"test2@test.com", "created":"2009-08-27T04:12:13+00:00","viewed":"2009-08-27T04:12:14+00:00","updated":"2009-08-27T23:52:26+00:00"}, "count":2359,"status":"success"} Does this help?

Sep 26, 2009 10:03pm Scott Apprentice 8 posts	Thanks for the additional information. The code posted here now works as expected using json in both directions. What is the preferred way of posting code to these forums? Single and double quotes are transformed into the nicer looking but illegal left and right slated cousins, even inside < code > blocks… #!/usr/bin/env python import httplib import string, base64, json userid = ‘‘ passwd = ‘‘ headers = {‘Accept’: ‘application/json’, ‘Content-Type’: ‘application/json’} headers[‘Authorization’] = ‘Basic ‘ + string.strip(base64.encodestring(userid + ‘:‘ + passwd)) connection = httplib.HTTPSConnection(“secure.solve360.com”) parameters = {‘limit’:2} connection.request(“GET”, “/companies”, json.dumps(parameters), headers) response = connection.getresponse() print response.status, response.reason reply = json.loads(response.read()) print reply

Sep 28, 2009 08:16am Engineering SpecialOps Administrator 3952 posts	The forums support the pMcode syntax so the code tags should be wrapped in square brackets.