MLDS REST API

IHTSDO-MLDS provides a limited number of APIs to support integration with other systems.

For further information on the REST APIs to get access to releases, please go to the MLDS Release Packages API page.

Schema

All access to the API is over HTTPS to the mlds.ihtsdotools.org domain. All data is sent and received as JSON.

Code Block

language	bash

$ curl -i 'https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/api/affiliates/check?member=IHTSDO&match=spectra'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:46:30 GMT

{"matched":true}

Client errors

Client errors on API calls will typically result in a 400 Bad Request response.

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HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:54:17 GMT

{"error":"Bad Request","status":400,"message":"Unknown member: 'xz'. Valid options: AU BE BN CA CL CZ DK EE ES GB HK IHTSDO IL IN IS LT MT MY NL NZ PL PT SE SG SI SK US UY "}

Error responses can be detected by a status code of 4xx or 5xx. The message value is an optional human description of the problem.

Authentication

The public APIs do not require authentication to be supplied

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Basic Authentication

The APIs that do require authentication support Basic Authentication using MLDS credentials.

Ensure that all communication uses https to ensure the credentials aren't revealed.

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HTTP Methods

Where possible the API supports appropriate HTTP Methods/Verbs for each resource.

Method	Description
GET	Retrieve a representation of the resource.
POST	Create a new resource.
PUT	Replace a resource.
DELETE	Delete a resource.

Affiliate API

Affiliate Check

Check that an affiliate is in good standing with IHTSDO.

Where possible the affilateId with confirming matching data from the application can be used, otherwise a single match from all affiliates of a member can be used.

Code Block
GET /affiliates/check?member=:memberKey&match=:keyword[&affilateId=:affiliateId]

Parameters

Name	Type	Optional	Description
member	string	Mandatory	Identification of the member country that the affiliate has been accepted by. It is either a two-letter country code or `IHTSDO` to indicate IHTSDO international. The country codes are a subset of the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes. Valid options: AU BE BN CA CL CZ DK EE ES GB HK IHTSDO IL IN IS LT MT MY NL NZ PL PT SE SG SI SK US UY.
match	string	Mandatory	Search keyword within the affiliate record. This will match against a number of identifying fields of the affiliate: organization name, first name, last name, street address, email, alternative email, and third email.
affiliateId	string	Optional	Limit the search to a specific Affilate record.

The check API requires a unique match to be found from the database of Affiliates. Affiliates are filtered by the member, optionally by affiliate id, and a keyword text match against the identifying fields of the affiliate.

Once a single affiliate has been identified the affiliate's application must have been approved for the specified member and for the affiliate's account to be considered in good standing.

If successful then the API will return with a matched: true.

If there is no match then the API will return with matched: false.

No additional information is provided to diagnose a failed match.

Examples

A successful match against a Swedish affiliate based on a match against the abc@test.com email address. The affiliate was uniquely identified and the account was in good standing.

Code Block
$ curl -i 'https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/api/affiliates/check?member=SE&match=abc@test.com' HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json {"matched":true}

An unsuccessful match against an IHTSDO affiliate based a match against the keyword hospital. No affiliate was uniquely identified as many affiliates contained hospital in the searched fields.

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$ curl -i 'https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/api/affiliates/check?member=SE&match=abc@test.com' HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json {"matched":false}

A successful match that limited the search to a single specified affiliate. The 'hospital' keyword matched, unlike before, however, by limiting the search to a single affiliate the result was unique.

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$ curl -i 'https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/api/affiliates/check?member=IHTSDO&match=hospital&affiliateId=123' HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json {"matched":true}

The match value contains user supplied data and as result may need to be escaped using standard URL rules. For example, matching the email address me+work@email.com would require escaping the + character as %2B when using curl or else the match request would fail.

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$ curl -i 'https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/api/affiliates/check?member=IHTSDO&match=me%2Bwork@email.com' HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json {"matched":true}

Release Packages API

Each member organization can make Release Packages available to their approved affiliates for downloading. A Release Package has a current version and past versions. A Release version can contain multiple files that can be individually downloaded by an affiliate.

Release files are not stored in MLDS and instead a URL is provided where the file can be download from on demand. Files are typically stored on the Amazon s3 service. The URL to directly access the release file is not made available to affiliate users, who instead use a MLDS based URL that in turn download the file from the original location.

Authentication

The API provides read access to the released packages without authentication; however, to modify and add release packages requires authentication with a user with staff authorization.

Get all release packages

List all release packages.

Code Block
$ curl -i 'https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/api/releasePackages'

Response

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language	xml

{
  "releasePackageId": 1911,
  "createdAt": "2015-10-14T13:49:09.163Z",
  "member": {
    "key": "SE"
  },
  "name": "Sweden A",
  "description": "<h3>sweden a release..<br/></h3>",
  "releaseVersions": [{
    "releaseVersionId": 1913,
    "createdAt": "2015-10-14T13:50:26.918Z",
    "name": "sweden a a 1",
    "description": "<p>some kind of version<br/></p>",
    "online": true,
    "publishedAt": null,
    "releaseFiles": [{
      "releaseFileId": 1921,
      "label": "<p>file2<br/></p>",
      "createdAt": "2015-10-14T19:18:39.808Z",
      "clientDownloadUrl": "/api/releasePackages/1911/releaseVersions/1913/releaseFiles/1921/download"
    }, {
      "releaseFileId": 1919,
      "label": "<p>file1<br/></p>",
      "createdAt": "2015-10-14T19:18:30.628Z",
      "clientDownloadUrl": "/api/releasePackages/1911/releaseVersions/1913/releaseFiles/1919/download"
    }]
  }]
}, {
  "releasePackageId": 5267,
  "createdAt": "2015-10-20T14:54:25.733Z",
  "member": {
    "key": "BE"
  },
  "name": "Belgium A",
  "description": "<p>AAAA</p><p><br/></p><p></p>",
  "releaseVersions": [{
    "releaseVersionId": 5269,
    "createdAt": "2015-10-20T14:54:44.829Z",
    "name": "Belgium A 1",
    "description": "<p>A 1<br/></p>",
    "online": true,
    "publishedAt": null,
    "releaseFiles": [{
      "releaseFileId": 5271,
      "label": null,
      "createdAt": "2015-10-20T14:55:01.955Z",
      "clientDownloadUrl": "/api/releasePackages/5267/releaseVersions/5269/releaseFiles/5271/download"
    }]
  }]
}]

Get a single Release Package

GET /api/releasePackages/:releasePackageId'

Get a single Release Version

GET /api/releasePackages/:releasePackageId/releaseVersions/:releaseVersionId'

Get a single Release File

GET /api/releasePackages/:releasePackageId/releaseVersions/:releaseVersionId/releaseFiles/:releaseFileId'

Create a new Release Package

POST /api/releasePackages

Input

Name	Type	Description
member.key	string	Member organization, either `IHTSDO` or the two letter country code of the member country
name	string	Name of the Release Package
description	string	Description of the Release Package. Can be plain text or HTML.

{
  "member": {
    "key": "IHTSDO"
  },
  "name": "Another Release",
  "description": "<p>Another Description<br/></p>"
}

Response

{
  "releasePackageId": 211920,
  "createdAt": "2015-10-28T20:39:41.965Z",
  "member": {
    "key": "SE"
  },
  "name": "Another Release",
  "description": "<p>Another Description<br/></p>",
  "releaseVersions": []
}

Create a new Release Version

POST /api/releasePackages/:releaseVersionId/releaseVersions

Input

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Name of the Release Version
description	string	Description of the Release Version. Can be plain text or HTML.
publishedAt	date	Optional - The publish date of the Released Version. Format: YYYY-MM-DD

{
  "name": "First Version",
  "description": "<p><b>First</b> version description <br/></p>"
}

Response

{
  "releaseVersionId": 211924,
  "createdAt": "2015-10-28T20:48:21.796Z",
  "name": "First Version",
  "description": "<p><b>First</b> version description <br/></p>",
  "online": false,
  "publishedAt": "2015-10-28",
  "releaseFiles": []
}

Create new Release File

Add a new release file to a Release Version.

POST /api/releasePackages/:releasePackageId/releaseVersions/:releaseVersionId/releaseFiles

Input

Name	Type	Description
label	string	Short description of the file
downloadUrl	string	URL of file content

{
  "label": "<p>Example file</p>",
  "downloadUrl": "http://files.com/example.txt"
}

Response

{
  "releaseFileId": 211928,
  "label": "<p>Example file</p>",
  "createdAt": "2015-10-29T14:44:52.682Z",
  "clientDownloadUrl": "/api/releasePackages/211920/releaseVersions/211924/releaseFiles/211928/download",
  "downloadUrl": "http://files.com/example.txt"
}

Note that an affiliate download URL is used by affiliates to download the content via MLDS.

Publish a Release Version Online

To publish a Release Version online the Release Version's online flag should be set to true. To take the Release Version offline the online flag should be set to false.

PUT /api/releasePackages/:releasePackageId/releaseVersions/:releaseVersionId

Input

Name	Type	Description
name	string	Name of the Release Version
description	string	Description of the Release Version. Can be plain text or HTML.
online	boolean	True if the release version is available to affiliates to download

{
  "name": "First Version",
  "description": "<p><b>First</b> version description <br/></p>",
  "online": true
}

Response

{
  "releaseVersionId": 211924,
  "createdAt": "2015-10-28T20:48:21.796Z",
  "name": "First Version",
  "description": "<p><b>First</b> version description <br/></p>",
  "online": true,
  "publishedAt": "2015-10-29",
  "releaseFiles": [{
    "releaseFileId": 211928,
    "label": "<p>Example file</p>",
    "createdAt": "2015-10-29T14:44:52.682Z",
    "clientDownloadUrl": "/api/releasePackages/211920/releaseVersions/211924/releaseFiles/211928/download",
    "downloadUrl": "http://files.com/example.txt"
  }]
}

Notify Affiliates of Release V

Affiliates are not notified automatically when a new Release version has been published online. When a notification to affiliates with download access to the Release Package is warranted then the following endpoint can be used.

POST /api/releasePackages/:releasePackageId/releaseVersions/:releaseVersionId/notifications

Input

{
}

Response

{
  "releaseVersionId": 211924,
  "createdAt": "2015-10-28T20:48:21.796Z",
  "name": "First Version",
  "description": "<p><b>First</b> version description <br/></p>",
  "online": true,
  "publishedAt": "2015-10-29",
  "releaseFiles": [{
    "releaseFileId": 211928,
    "label": "<p>Example file</p>",
    "createdAt": "2015-10-29T14:44:52.682Z",
    "clientDownloadUrl": "/api/releasePackages/211920/releaseVersions/211924/releaseFiles/211928/download",
    "downloadUrl": "http://files.com/example.txt"
  }]
}

Create a Release Package License

A license document can be associated with a Release Package.

POST /api/releasePackages/:releasePackageId/license

Input

Name	Type	Description
file	form-data	File name of the posted file contents.

The request should be a `multipart\form-data' post to the server.

$ curl -u USER:PASSWORD -i -F "file=@FILE.PDF" 'https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/api/releasePackages/211920/license'

Download Release File Content

The content associated with a Release File can be downloaded using the value of the `clientDownloadUrl'.

GET /api/releasePackages/:releasePackageId/releaseVersions/:releaseVersionId/releaseFiles/:releaseFileId/download

To download a file content the supplied user credentials must be approved to get access to the member's files.

Response

The response body is the file content.

Where possible the response headers Content-Disposition and Content-Type are set with content meta-data, such as filename.

Example

Given the existing published Release Package:

{
  "releaseVersionId": 211924,
  "createdAt": "2015-10-28T20:48:21.796Z",
  "name": "First Version",
  "description": "<p><b>First</b> version description <br/></p>",
  "online": true,
  "publishedAt": "2015-10-29",
  "releaseFiles": [{
    "releaseFileId": 211928,
    "label": "<p>Example file</p>",
    "createdAt": "2015-10-29T14:44:52.682Z",
    "clientDownloadUrl": "/api/releasePackages/211920/releaseVersions/211924/releaseFiles/211928/download",
  }]
}

The content for Release file 211928 can be downloaded using the value of the clientDownloadUrl.

$ curl -u USER:PASSWORD -v -o file.pdf 'https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/api/releasePackages/211920/releaseVersions/211924/releaseFiles/211928/download'

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="pdfSample.pdf"
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 113801

[data not shown]

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MLDS REST API

Schema

Client errors

Authentication

Basic Authentication

HTTP Methods

Affiliate API

Affiliate Check

Parameters

Examples

Release Packages API

Authentication

Get all release packages

Response

Get a single Release Package

Get a single Release Version

Get a single Release File

Create a new Release Package

Input

Response

Create a new Release Version

Input

Response

Create new Release File

Input

Response

Publish a Release Version Online

Input

Response

Notify Affiliates of Release V

Input

Response

Create a Release Package License

Input

Download Release File Content

Response

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