Metadata API and lastUpdated

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1

Hi,
Can someone either confirm or deny that you can use a ISO 8601 UTC timestamp for the lastUpdated parameter in the metadata API. From the documentation:
http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/2.21/en/developer/html/dhis2_developer_manual_full.html#d4934e315
it appears that you cannot.

If not, can support for this possibly be added.

I tried with a UTC timestamp and it didn’t seem to work, but I may have messed up the request.

Thanks!

Cheers,
-carl

2

Hi Carl,

it seems to be working fine.

eg: to query for events updated after 8th Feb 10.20 am UTC

http://localhost/api/events.json?lastUpdated=2016-02-08T10:20:15Z , Z for UTC

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On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Carl Leitner litlfred@ibiblio.org wrote:

Hi,
Can someone either confirm or deny that you can use a ISO 8601 UTC timestamp for the lastUpdated parameter in the metadata API. From the documentation:
http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/2.21/en/developer/html/dhis2_developer_manual_full.html#d4934e315
it appears that you cannot.

If not, can support for this possibly be added.

I tried with a UTC timestamp and it didn’t seem to work, but I may have messed up the request.

Thanks!

Cheers,
-carl

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3

Thanks. It seems, at least with api/metadata it is getting everything for that day - that it is ignoring the time. For example on the dhis2 demo server there is an org unit that was updated today at 10:59:17.

false false /eOnrD5vLyri 2016-02-14 NONE

I would expect to see the org unit when I do this
curl -k -u admin:district -H ‘Accept: application/xml’ 'https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/metadata?assumeTrue=false&organisationUnits=true&lastUpdated=2016-02-14T10:59:00+0000Z’ | xmllint -format -
but not this
curl -k -u admin:district -H ‘Accept: application/xml’ 'https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/metadata?assumeTrue=false&organisationUnits=true&lastUpdated=2016-02-14T11:00:00+0000Z’ | xmllint -format -
However, I am seeing it for both. Any ideas what’s wrong with the query? I also tried the variants with out the +0000, with the same result.

Thanks for helping out!

Cheers,

-carl

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On Feb 14, 2016, at 7:32 AM, Pamod Amarakoon pamodm@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Carl,

it seems to be working fine.

eg: to query for events updated after 8th Feb 10.20 am UTC

http://localhost/api/events.json?lastUpdated=2016-02-08T10:20:15Z , Z for UTC

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Carl Leitner litlfred@ibiblio.org wrote:
Hi,
Can someone either confirm or deny that you can use a ISO 8601 UTC timestamp for the lastUpdated parameter in the metadata API. From the documentation:
http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/2.21/en/developer/html/dhis2_developer_manual_full.html#d4934e315
it appears that you cannot.

If not, can support for this possibly be added.

I tried with a UTC timestamp and it didn’t seem to work, but I may have messed up the request.

Thanks!

Cheers,
-carl

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4

I see the code for parsing lastUpdated on the event controller is not
the same as on the metadata filtered export. Carl, you are right that
currently the format is restricted to the patterns shown in the
manual. It would be trivial to add support for ISO8601 timestamp.
Can you make a blueprint so that it is not forgotten?

···

On 14 February 2016 at 14:14, Carl Leitner <litlfred@ibiblio.org> wrote:

Thanks. It seems, at least with api/metadata it is getting everything for
that day - that it is ignoring the time. For example on the dhis2 demo
server there is an org unit that was updated today at 10:59:17.

<organisationUnit name="Lagos" created="2016-02-14T10:59:17.864+0000"
lastUpdated="2016-02-14T10:59:17.931+0000" shortName="Lagos_1"
uuid="f3bdb327-2f38-465e-92a4-91b7c83c1225" id="eOnrD5vLyri" level="1">
      <externalAccess>false</externalAccess>
      <user name="John Traore" created="2013-04-18T17:15:08.407+0000"
lastUpdated="2016-02-14T12:28:51.104+0000" id="xE7jOejl9FI">
        <externalAccess>false</externalAccess>
      </user>
      <description/>
      <path>/eOnrD5vLyri</path>
      <openingDate>2016-02-14</openingDate>
      <featureType>NONE</featureType>
    </organisationUnit>

I would expect to see the org unit when I do this
curl -k -u admin:district -H 'Accept: application/xml'
'https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/metadata?assumeTrue=false&organisationUnits=true&lastUpdated=2016-02-14T10:59:00+0000Z&#39;
> xmllint -format -
but not this
curl -k -u admin:district -H 'Accept: application/xml'
'DHIS2 App Hub;
> xmllint -format -
However, I am seeing it for both. Any ideas what’s wrong with the query? I
also tried the variants with out the +0000, with the same result.

Thanks for helping out!

Cheers,
-carl

On Feb 14, 2016, at 7:32 AM, Pamod Amarakoon <pamodm@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Carl,

it seems to be working fine.

eg: to query for events updated after 8th Feb 10.20 am UTC

http://localhost/api/events.json?lastUpdated=2016-02-08T10:20:15Z
, Z for UTC

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Carl Leitner <litlfred@ibiblio.org> wrote:
Hi,
Can someone either confirm or deny that you can use a ISO 8601 UTC timestamp
for the lastUpdated parameter in the metadata API. From the documentation:

http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/2.21/en/developer/html/dhis2_developer_manual_full.html#d4934e315
it appears that you cannot.

If not, can support for this possibly be added.

I tried with a UTC timestamp and it didn’t seem to work, but I may have
messed up the request.

Thanks!

Cheers,
-carl

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5

Done:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/dhis2/+spec/metadata-api-lastupdated-utc

Cheers,

-carl

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On Feb 14, 2016, at 9:48 AM, Bob Jolliffe bobjolliffe@gmail.com wrote:

I see the code for parsing lastUpdated on the event controller is not
the same as on the metadata filtered export. Carl, you are right that
currently the format is restricted to the patterns shown in the
manual. It would be trivial to add support for ISO8601 timestamp.
Can you make a blueprint so that it is not forgotten?

On 14 February 2016 at 14:14, Carl Leitner litlfred@ibiblio.org wrote:

Thanks. It seems, at least with api/metadata it is getting everything for
that day - that it is ignoring the time. For example on the dhis2 demo
server there is an org unit that was updated today at 10:59:17.


false

false


/eOnrD5vLyri
2016-02-14
NONE

I would expect to see the org unit when I do this
curl -k -u admin:district -H ‘Accept: application/xml’
'https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/metadata?assumeTrue=false&organisationUnits=true&lastUpdated=2016-02-14T10:59:00+0000Z’

xmllint -format -
but not this
curl -k -u admin:district -H ‘Accept: application/xml’
'https://apps.dhis2.org/demo/api/metadata?assumeTrue=false&organisationUnits=true&lastUpdated=2016-02-14T11:00:00+0000Z’
xmllint -format -
However, I am seeing it for both. Any ideas what’s wrong with the query? I
also tried the variants with out the +0000, with the same result.

Thanks for helping out!

Cheers,
-carl

On Feb 14, 2016, at 7:32 AM, Pamod Amarakoon pamodm@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Carl,

it seems to be working fine.

eg: to query for events updated after 8th Feb 10.20 am UTC

http://localhost/api/events.json?lastUpdated=2016-02-08T10:20:15Z
, Z for UTC

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 5:20 AM, Carl Leitner litlfred@ibiblio.org wrote:
Hi,
Can someone either confirm or deny that you can use a ISO 8601 UTC timestamp
for the lastUpdated parameter in the metadata API. From the documentation:

http://dhis2.github.io/dhis2-docs/2.21/en/developer/html/dhis2_developer_manual_full.html#d4934e315
it appears that you cannot.

If not, can support for this possibly be added.

I tried with a UTC timestamp and it didn’t seem to work, but I may have
messed up the request.

Thanks!

Cheers,
-carl

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