Acquisition Service RESTful APIs - Release v0.5

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Last updated: Mar 23, 2010
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Brief Description

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For a full description, visit the Service Description and Assumptions page.

Assumptions

For a complete list of assumptions, visit the Service Description and Assumptions page.

References

Object Entry Requirements
Acquisition Stories
Acquisition Service Description and Assumptions
Acquisition Service Entity Diagrams
Acquisition Schema

REST-based API

The Acquisition Service offers a REST-based Application Programming Interface (API) to CRUD (create, read, update, and delete) operations on individual Acquisition instances, plus list operations on multiple Acquisition instances. These follow the Common model for CollectionSpace REST services.

Acquisition CRUD+L services

Create an Acquisition

Creates a new Acquisition record. Assigns a unique, service-specified /wiki/spaces/collectionspace/pages/666274321 to that Acquisition record. Follows standard Create model. See the documentation of the Acquisition schema, below. Example:

POST /cspace-services/acquisitions HTTP/1.1
Read an Acquisition

Reads an existing Acquisition record, specified by its /wiki/spaces/collectionspace/pages/666274321. Follows standard Read model. See the documentation of the Acquisition schema, below. Example:

GET /cspace-services/acquisitions/{id} HTTP/1.1
Update an Acquisition

Updates an existing Acquisition record, specified by its /wiki/spaces/collectionspace/pages/666274321. Follows standard Update model. See the documentation of the Acquisition schema, below. Example:

PUT /cspace-services/acquisitions/{id} HTTP/1.1
Delete an Acquisition

Deletes an existing Acquisition record, specified by its /wiki/spaces/collectionspace/pages/666274321. Follows standard Delete model. Example:

DELETE /cspace-services/acquisitions/{id} HTTP/1.1
List Acquisition instances

Lists existing Acquisition records, with summary information for each. Follows standard List model. See the documentation of the Acquisition list schema, below. Example:

GET /cspace-services/acquisitions/ HTTP/1.1

The Acquisition service does not currently support pagination; restore wording from version 5 of this document when that support is added.

Acquisition REST payload schemas

Acquisition instance schema

The schemas below are severely abbreviated, and are thus illustrative. For a full list of the fields that may potentially be present in payloads when creating, updating, or reading individual Acquisition records, please see the Acquisition record schema for release 0.5.

Create and Update should use the following schema:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ns2:acquisitions_common xmlns:ns2="http://collectionspace.org/services/acquisition">
  <acquisitionReferenceNumber>2010.1</acquisitionReferenceNumber>
  <acquisitionSources>
    <acquisitionSource>urn:cspace:org.collectionspace.demo:orgauthority:name(TestOrgAuth):organization:name(Hasbro, Inc.)'Hasbro, Inc.'</acquisitionSource>
  </acquisitionSources>
  <acquisitionReason>Supplement collection of board games.</acquisitionReason>
  ...
</ns2:acquisitions-common>

Read will return the following schema:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ns2:acquisitions_common xmlns:ns2="http://collectionspace.org/services/acquisition" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://collectionspace.org/services/acquisition http://services.collectionspace.org/acquisition/acquisitions_common.xsd">
  <acquisitionReferenceNumber>2010.1</acquisitionReferenceNumber>
  <acquisitionSources>
    <acquisitionSource>urn:cspace:org.collectionspace.demo:orgauthority:name(TestOrgAuth):organization:name(Hasbro, Inc.)'Hasbro, Inc.'</acquisitionSource>
  </acquisitionSources>
  <acquisitionReason>Supplement collection of board games.</acquisitionReason>
  ...
</ns2:acquisitions-common>
Acquisition list schema

List (and variants) will return the following schema. This schema includes the uri and csid fields to help facilitate access to individual records:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<ns2:acquisitions-common-list xmlns:ns2="http://collectionspace.org/services/acquisition">
  <acquisition-list-item>
    <acquisitionReferenceNumber>2010.1.51</acquisitionReferenceNumber>
    <uri>/acquisitions/c6563617-a129-4b92-8d38</uri>
    <csid>c6563617-a129-4b92-8d38</csid>
  </acquisition-list-item>
  ....
</ns2:acquisitions-common-list>