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Summary

This API provides capabilities to retrieve the defined products of a single brand. This service is useful for building your own data mapping service when reading or writing from/to other Omeda services.

General Technical Requirements

The following technical requirements apply to all requests for this API.

Base Resource URI

Code Block
Production: https://ows.omeda.com/webservices/rest/brand/{brandAbbreviation}/products/*

Testing:    https://ows.omedastaging.com/webservices/rest/brand/{brandAbbreviation}/products/*

brandAbbreviationis the abbreviation for the brand

HTTP Headers

The HTTP header must contain the following element: x-omeda-appid a unique id provided to you by Omeda to access your data. The request will fail without a valid id.

Content Type

The content type is application/json. JSONapplication/json

JSON is the preferred data exchange format, because it is lightweight and, in most cases, faster to process and utilizes less bandwidth. There are many available open-source JSON libraries available. See json.org for details.

Supported HTTP Methods

There is one HTTP method supported:

  1. GET : See W3C’s GET specs for details.

Deployment Type Lookup by Brand

Retrieves all deployment types of a single brand.

Field Definition

The following tables describe the hierarchical data elements present on the response from the API.

Brand Elements

Element Name

Always Returned…

Data Type

Description

Id

Yes

Integer

The brand identifier.

Description

Yes

String

The name of the brand.

BrandAbbrev

Yes

String

The abbreviation for the brand (used in most web service URLs).

Products

Yes

List

A list of Product elements. These specify the products that can be associated with customers for this brand.

Products Elements

Element Name

Always Returned…

Data Type

Description

Id

Yes

Integer

The product identifier.

ProductType

Yes

Integer

“Type” of Product. See Product Types.

Description

Yes

String

Name of the product.

AlternateId

Yes

String

This is the Product ID that is used in Omeda’s V10 system.

Frequency

No

String

Frequency of the product issues per year.

FrequencyType

No

String

The possible frequency types (Daily – DY, Weekly – WK, Monthly – MO, Yearly – YR, bi-weekly – BIW, bi-monthly – BIM, Manual – MA)

DeploymentTypeId

Yes

Integer

If the product is linked to a DeploymentType (Omail), then this ID will be returned.

MarketingClasses

No

List

A list of MarketingClasses elements. These elements will only be returned if the Product Types is 1 (Magazine) or 2 (Newsletter) or 7 (Website).

Issues

No

List

A list of Issues elements. These elements will only be returned if the Product Types is 1 (Magazine).

MarketingClasses Elements

Element Name

Always Returned…

Data Type

Description

Id

Yes

Integer

Marketing class identifier.

Description

Yes

String

Name of the marketing class.

ShortDescription

Yes

String

A short name of the marketing class.

ClassId

Yes

String

Marketing class identifier associated with legacy products.

StatusCode

Yes

Integer

See Marketing Class Statuses for a list of status codes and their associated values

Issues Elements

Element Name

Always Returned…

Data Type

Description

Id

Yes

Integer

Issue identifier.

Description

Yes

String

A description for the Issue.

IssueDate

Yes

Datetime

Date of the issue in yyyy-MM-dd format. Example: 2012-05-01.

AlternateId

Yes

String

Omeda’s legacy Issue ID.

StatusCode

Yes

Byte

See Issue Status Codes for a list of status codes and their associated values.

Response

HTTP Response Codes

Status

Description

200 OK

The request has succeeded. See Example Response below.

404 Not Found

In the event no Brand Information is found, an HTTP 404 (not found) response will be returned.

Success

Code Block
{ 
  "SubmissionId":"C95AE90C-BEC6-41F2-91E2-2BA9168D1D1F",
  "Id":3000,
  "Description":"AppDev Today",
  "BrandAbbrev":"APPDEV",
      "Products":[
    { 
      "Id":1, 
      "Description":"AppDev Today Web Access", 
      "ProductType":3, 
      "MarketingClasses":[
        {
          "StatusCode":0,
          "ShortDescription":"Need More Info",
          "ClassId":"2",
          "Description":"Need More Information",
          "Id":24
        },
        {
          "StatusCode":1,
          "ShortDescription":"Frmwk",
          "ClassId":"3",
          "Description":"Framework",
          "Id":22
        }
      ],
      "Issues":[
        {
          "Id":478437,
          "Description":"March 2012 Issue",
          "IssueDate": "2012-05-01",
          "AlternateId": "201205",
          "StatusCode": 30
        },
        {
          "Id":478438,
          "Description":"April 2012 Issue",
          "IssueDate": "2012-04-01",
          "AlternateId": "201205",
          "StatusCode": 30
        }
      ]
    },
    { 
      "Id":2, 
      "Description":"AppDev Today Magazine", 
      "ProductType":1
    }
  ]
       

Failure

Code Block
{
   "SubmissionId":"ec0c2ba6-13f4-4934-8efa-74c2ccb33f1d",
   "Errors":[
      {
         "Error":"Brand 12345 was not found."
      }
   ]
}
Possible Error Messages

In the event of an error, an error response will be returned. Here are some of the possible responses you might receive.

Code Block
Brand {brandId} was not found.

Additional Information

Issues – StatusCode

StatusCode

Description

0

Planned

10

Open

20

Locked

30

Closed

40

Current Supplement

45

Current Supplement Closed

50

In Progress

55

In Progress Closed

MarketingClasses – StatusCode

StatusCode

Description

0

Customers with this StatusCode may or may not receive the product.

1

Customers with this StatusCode will receive the product.