Web Services Email
(sent to all web service users on 10/12/2011)

CDMO web service users-

A few months ago we notified you that we would be making an upgrade to the way we provide web services. The software we were using is now obsolete and we have moved to using ColdFusion to serve this data. Unfortunately, the URL for the new web services will need to be updated from http://129.252.139.102/webservices/xmldatarequest.cfc?wsdl to http://cdmo.baruch.sc.edu/webservices2/requests.cfc?wsdl. This change can't be avoided.

We have made every effort to deliver the new web services with the same functionality and structure as the old in hopes that minimal script changes are necessary (if any). We have kept all of the old functions that were available and added some new ones. These are all detailed below.

The old URL and web services will remain available for the next month so that you will have time to arrange for this change and test out the new services. We will send another reminder in a few weeks and again just before we discontinue the old services. We highly recommend testing the new services and modifying your scripts (if necessary) before the old services become unavailable. We will be happy to work with you to ensure that this is a smooth transition; please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.

Original functions:

exportStationCodesXML - This function returns the following XML data: NERR_Site_ID, Station_Code, Station_Name, Latitude/Longitude (in degrees), Latitude (in decimal), Longitude (in decimal), Active Status, Active Dates, State, Reserve_Name, the parameters reported for all stations, and a Real Time bit.

NERRFilterStationCodesXML - This function returns the following XML data: NERR_Site_ID, Station_Code, Station_Name, Latitude/Longitude (in degrees), Latitude (in decimal), Longitude (in decimal), Active Status, Active Dates, State, Reserve_Name, and the parameters reported for all stations associated with a particular NERR Site.

exportSingleParamXML - This function returns the following XML data: DateTimeStamp, user-requested-parameter.

exportAllParamsDateRangeXML - This function returns all parameters with DateTimeStamps greater than the mindate and less than or equal to the maxdate.

exportAllParamsXML - This function returns the following XML data: DateTimeStamp, and all parameters associated for requested station.


New functions -- These are the same functions as above and take the same arguments; however, they return tags with parameter names as opposed to having the data within the tags.

exportStationCodesXMLNew - This function returns the following XML data: NERR_Site_ID, Station_Code, Station_Name, Latitude/Longitude (in degrees), Latitude (in decimal), Longitude (in decimal), Active Status, Active Dates, State, Reserve_Name, the parameters reported for all stations, and a Real Time bit.

NERRFilterStationCodesXMLNew - This function returns the following XML data: NERR_Site_ID, Station_Code, Station_Name, Latitude/Longitude (in degrees), Latitude (in decimal), Longitude (in decimal), Active Status, Active Dates, State, Reserve_Name, and the parameters reported for all stations associated with a particular NERR Site.

exportSingleParamXMLNew - This function returns the following XML data: DateTimeStamp, user-requested-parameter.

exportAllParamsDateRangeXMLNew - This function returns all parameters with DateTimeStamps greater than the mindate and less than or equal to the maxdate.

exportAllParamsXMLNew - This function returns the following XML data: DateTimeStamp, and all parameters associated for requested station.

NOTE: Methods may error out if more parameters than listed are requested or parameters are not typecasted to String format.

Again, please email us at cdmowebmaster@belle.baruch.sc.edu if you experience any difficulties when testing out the new functions or if you have any other questions.

Thank you for your time and we hope you continue to enjoy our data through web services.

Melissa Ide
CDMO Data Center Manager
843.904.9003

and

Brooks Folk
CDMO Web Developer
843.904.9005