Demographic Lookup By Customer Id

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Summary

This service returns all available customer demographics stored for a given customer by using the Customer ID.

General Technical Requirements

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

Base Resource URI

Production: https://ows.omeda.com/webservices/rest/brand/{brandAbbreviation}/customer/{customerId}/demographic/* Testing: https://ows.omedastaging.com/webservices/rest/brand/{brandAbbreviation}/customer/{customerId}/demographic/*

brandAbbreviation is the abbreviation for the brand customerId is the internal customer id (encrypted customer id may also be used)

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. JSON application/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.

Lookup Demograhics By Customer Id

Retrieves a record containing all demographic information about the customer.

Field Definition

The following tables describe the hierarchical data elements.

In addition to the below elements, a SubmissionId element will also be returned with all responses. This is a unique identifier for the web services response. It can be used to cross-reference the response in Omeda’s database.

CustomerDemographics Elements

Element Name

Description

Element Name

Description

Customer

Element containing an http reference to the owning customer resource.

CustomerDemographic

each CustomerDemographic element contains all demographic information.

CustomerDemographic Elements

Element Name

Always Returned…

Data type

Description

Element Name

Always Returned…

Data type

Description

Id

No

 

unique customer demographic identifier

DemographicId

No

 

integer that defines the demographic the responses are gathered for

DemographicType

No

 

integer – see Additional Information for the list of values and their descriptions

DemographicAge

No

 

integer – The number of years since the demographic was collected for this customer. The “year” is calculated based on the product’s audit cycle.

ValueId

Yes

 

the individual response value, if the response/data was for a single-response or a multiple-response demographic.

ValueText

Yes

 

the individual response value, if the response/data was for a text-response demographic.

ValueDate

Yes

 

the individual response value, if the response/data was for a date-response demographic.

WriteInDesc

Yes

String

If the Demographics Value “Type” is an “Other” response, and a text answer is being stored for this “Other” value, then the text answer will be returned.

AlternateId

No

String

An id that can be used to uniquely identify this demographic(perhaps in your content management system).

ChangedDate

no

 

Date & time record last changed. yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss format. Example: 2010-03-08 21:23:34.

Response

HTTP Response Codes

Status

Description

Status

Description

200 OK

The request has succeeded. See Example Response below.

403 Forbidden

Typically, this error occurs when the credentials are erroneous. Potentially, an incorrect x-omeda-appid.

404 Not Found

Typically, this error occurs with a malformed URL or the resource that is searched for is not found.

500 Internal Server Error

In the rare case that there is a server-side problem, this response will be returned. This generally indicates a problem of a more serious nature, and submitting additional requests may not be advisable. Please contact your Omeda Account Representative if the issue continues.

Success

{ "Customer":"https://ows.omedastaging.com/webservices/rest/brand/FOO/customer/12345/*", "CustomerDemographics":[ { "Id":4201512, "DemographicId":100, "DemographicType":1, "ValueId":192, "ChangedDate": "2015-03-08 21:23:34" }, { "Id":4201513, "DemographicId":101, "DemographicType":3, "ValueText":"Turquoise", "ChangedDate": "2015-03-08 21:23:34" }, { "Id":4201514, "DemographicId":114, "DemographicType":1, "ValueId":196, "ChangedDate": "2015-03-08 21:23:34" }, { "Id":4201515, "DemographicId":115, "DemographicType":2, "ValueId":197, "ChangedDate": "2015-03-08 21:23:34" }, { "Id":4201516, "DemographicId":115, "DemographicType":1, "WriteInDesc":"write in text", "ChangedDate": "2015-03-08 21:23:34" }, { "Id":4201517, "DemographicId":116, "DemographicType":6, "ValueDate":"2015-04-19 11:33:17", "ChangedDate": "2015-03-08 21:23:34" } ] "SubmissionId" : "24B9BF6F-0677-462B-942A-D87EEBD10F77" }

Failure

{ "SubmissionId":"ec0c2ba6-13f4-4934-8efa-74c2ccb33f1d", "Errors":[ { "Error":"No demographics found for customer 12345." } ] }
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.

Additional Information

Demographics – DemographicType

StatusCode

Description

StatusCode

Description

1

a single-choice-allowed type of question. (Two or more choices – one answers)

2

a multiple-choice-allowed type of question. (Two or more choices – many answers)

3

an open-form short answer question. (No choices – text input)

5

a yes/no answer

6

a date answer

7

a whole number answer

8

a decimal answer