[Building Sakai] Roster data via REST?

[Steve Swinsburg]

The way to get the siteids for the sites you have access to is
/direct/site.json

Cheers
Steve


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On 08/06/2013, at 3:15, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> Ok; uniqueness is important, but could be administratively arranged. 
> How about getting site ID from the shortened URL name, those are unique.
> 
> Or, more generally - what is a human (administrator) friendly way to describe sites for reporting and queries?
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> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Roster data via REST?
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> I'm pretty sure there isn't a way (and if there is there shouldn't be), to query sited (something unique) by name (not actually unique) and return only one unique result.
> 
> I may be misunderstanding the relationship, but I don't think that entityTitle is a unique ID in the model. You could get back one or many results.
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> Steve, Thanks (again.), but while I can see how to use /direct/site/..siteID.xml for site information,
> How do I get the SiteID to do this?
>  
> I want to go from what that gives me as  <entityTitle> to the <entityID> which I need to run the site query and others.
> Then from that I can get Roster, etc.
>  
> Just to be clear, so that I can get a roster via: /server/direct/membership/site/dc228507-e011-445c-aafc-6757341b9ffa.xml
> I want something where I can start with "CS505-Fall2012" and get the SiteID to make that query.
>  
> The /direct/site/ seems to do the converse, given a SiteID I can query and get all sorts of stuff, including the Title (which is also used in the short URL).
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> Hi Gregory,
> Yes there is a provider to get the list of sites (/site). The idea is that you chains some of these requests together, ie get a list of sites, then for each site get a list of X.
> cheers,
> Steve
>  
> They require a course ID - given a program dealing with the human-readable course names, is there some REST-full way to get the course ID to make these calls? I.e. to lookup course names?
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