Web Service APIs

Are there maintainance windows that should be avoided?

gadgeteer — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:46:49 GMT

For about the third time now I've hit windows of time where the remote commenting APIs throw an error about timing out (see XML below.)

The window where timeouts are thrown last for serveral hours and are usually early in the morning (within midnight to 4am timeframe) on Sunday and Monday mornings.

Is there some kind of processing/maintainance going on around those times that it would be better to avoid calling the APIs during then?

Sample XML error return:

    Failed
    500
    0

      System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning()
   at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ConsumeMetaData()
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.get_MetaData()
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.FinishExecuteReader(SqlDataReader ds, RunBehavior runBehavior, String resetOptionsString)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReaderTds(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, Boolean async)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method, DbAsyncResult result)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.RunExecuteReader(CommandBehavior cmdBehavior, RunBehavior runBehavior, Boolean returnStream, String method)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior, String method)
   at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteDbDataReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
   at System.Data.Common.DbCommand.System.Data.IDbCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
   at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.FillInternal(DataSet dataset, DataTable[] datatables, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior)
   at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet, Int32 startRecord, Int32 maxRecords, String srcTable, IDbCommand command, CommandBehavior behavior)
   at System.Data.Common.DbDataAdapter.Fill(DataSet dataSet)
   at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteDataset(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters)
   at ThePortData.DataProvider.Comment.GetLatestRemoteItemComments(Guid gPartnerID, Guid gUserID, Int32 iResultStart, Int32 iNumResults, Int32& iTotalCount, String sRemoteArticleID, String sRemoteArticleGroupID, Int32 iFeaturedOnlyInd)
   at ThePortBusiness.RemoteCommentCollection.PopulateCommunityCommentsByPaging()
   at ThePortBusiness.RemoteCommentCollection.InstantiateCommunityCommentsByPaging(Guid gPartnerID, Int32 iResultStart, Int32 iNumItems)
   at CommentingService.GetCommunityComments(String DeveloperKey, String ResultStart, String NumItems)

Given a retrieved remote comment how to I query details on the user?

gadgeteer — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:16:56 GMT

when you retrieve remote comments via the REST API the comment has a section called author:


        WEB01:/LM/W3SVC/5/ROOT/ws-4-129708624335090710
        ThePortBusiness.Thin.User, ThePortBusiness, Version=2008.12.18.17, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
        0
        {redacted, sure about security issues.}
        {redacted, sure about security issues.}
        {redacted, sure about security issues.}

        {redacted, sure about security issues.}
        http://my.stltoday.com/user/b/{redacted, sure about security issues.}.image
        http://my.stltoday.com/user/s/{redacted, sure about security issues.}.image
        http://my.stltoday.com/user/50/{redacted, sure about security issues.}.image
        1
        {redacted, sure about security issues.}
        {redacted, sure about security issues.}


Which field in the Author section can be used with the

http://services.theport.com/REST/V1/Users

users call... and what does the &SearchBy= need to be set to if the actual user_id is not in the section?

The remote commenting api returns comments for a banned and delete user... why?

gadgeteer — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:32:29 GMT

The API endpoint at:

http://services.theport.com/ws/developerAPI/CommentingService.asmx/GetItemComments

is returning comments for a banned and deleted user.

our site is my.stltoday.com, the xref id for the remote object being commented on is 27d477f0-3c90-11e1-8173-001a4bcf6878 and the offending comment's uuid is f1ff97f6-4644-4f72-a361-2b1dabf3a3a1 ...

Why am I seeing a comment for a banned and deleted user being returned? what's wrong?

Can the APIs be used to update/assign a SO to a category?

cameron — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:50:28 GMT

Can the APIs be used to update/assign an SO to a category?

Getting Errors when trying to use CreateUser API

cameron — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:39:20 GMT

i copied and pasted the etc... directly from the API example and am still getting this error returned:

400Invalid Request Body Format.

Can the APIs be used to create an event for a social object?

cameron — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:15:53 GMT

I see the Create Event API, but it looks like it works only for users, not social spaces, as one of the parameters is sysuserid={UserID}. Is there any way to attach the event to a SO?

Along similar lines, there is an ability in the admin panel to import events from a CSV file. Can this functionality be added on the front end for admins of social objects to import events only to that object via XSLT?

could you please make the API pages public not private?

cameron — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:51:22 GMT

all the API pages are private and require authorization to view them. i have tried to join the groups several times but no one is moderating requests to join it seems. please make the groups public so that we can see them without having to request to join each one.

for example:
http://community.theport.com/api/Create_Event

How do i retrieve a list of bamned users?

gadgeteer — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:57:37 GMT

How do I retrieve a list of banned users?

The API call documentated at http://community.theport.com/api/GetUsers
does not appear to return banned users ... anymore ... I think I remember it returnning banned users before, but the more recent calls to it seem to be returning only active users.

In a perfect world I'd be able to include a isBanned=true parameter with a SortBy=UpdateDTM and SortDirection=DESC to get a list of the most recently banned accounts.

Error on Update Event API call

Dirgesh — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:06:35 GMT

When making an update event call out, The following error occurs:
500
An Unknown Exception has Occurred on the Server.

It's also very intermittent
Another issue, when I try to update an event it will update AND create a duplicate. So now I have 2 events which are the same....

can you provide some assistance here?

Update Event

Dirgesh — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:51:39 GMT

I am using the UpdateEvent script and few questions:

1. What is the date format for beginning / end date?
2. How do you make a event "closed/deactivate" so it's not showing up on events anymore.

How to I toggle "Only show my screen name" via WS-API?

gadgeteer — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:03:49 GMT

Have a need to be able to toggle the "Only show my screen name" settings via a WebService API, is this possible? which one do I use?

How do I get my UserID?

Dirgesh — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:18:55 GMT

Where do I find what my User ID is?

Looking to retrieve Remote Comments posted by a user?

gadgeteer — Tue, 17 May 2011 13:59:52 GMT

Looking to retrieve the Remote Comments a user has posted, but I can't seem to identify any REST/Web Service that allows me to retreive comments by user id / xref / ssid

What's the process for doing this?

Why doesn't title on a remote commenting object update?

gadgeteer — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:33:00 GMT

Got an issue with the remote commenting API.

The AddComment call has a non-required field "ItemTitle", this value is title of the "asset/story/article" being commented on.

The ItemTitle field is required if this is the first comment for this story/asset/article and is used as the "title" returned from calls like GetMostCommentedCommunityItems.

Right now the value is only used when the remote comment object is created at your end, so any updates to the title aren't reflected down the road.

What's the possibility of the AddComment API being adjusted to update ItemTitle, if passed, and has changed?

This issue was brought up by one of our folks in our newsroom, they will update titles if they get them initially wrong.

Need assistance finding the "social ID" for Lee properties

Veebee — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:25:34 GMT

We need to find out what the business social object "social ID" code is for several Lee properties. For example, we know what they are for these Lee properties:
for my.quadsville.com i have 375 for ELITE and 375 for PREFERRED
for NWI.COM_PREFERRED = 50
and STLTODAY_PREFFERED = 131

We don't know what they are for the following Lee properties, can you help?
Bloomington: my.pantagraph.com
Madison: my.madison.com
Lincoln: my.journalstar.com
NCTimes: my.nctimes.com
Billings: my.billingsgazette.com
La Crosse: my.rivervalleyvoice.com
Provo: my.heraldextra.com
Sioux City: my.siouxlandvoice.com

Please provide or tell us where we can find this information. Thanks ~ Vashon Borich - 888-520-8758, vashon.borich@lee.net