Email Address Lookup By Customer Id

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Summary

This API provides the ability look up a Customer’s Email Addresses by the Customer Id.   This service returns all active email address information stored for the given customer.

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

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 Email Addresses By Customer Id

Retrieves a record containing all available active email information about a 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.

Emails Elements

Element Name

Description

Element Name

Description

Customer

Element containing an http reference to the owning customer resource.

Emails

each Email element contains all email information.

Email Elements

Element Name

Always Returned…

Data Type

Description

Element Name

Always Returned…

Data Type

Description

Id

Yes

Long

unique email identifier

EmailContactType

No

Integer

integer that defines the type of email (see Standard API Constants and Codes).

EmailAddress

Yes

String

actual email address

ChangedDate

Yes

DateTime

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

StatusCode

No

Byte

Status of email address: 1 is the primary email address, 2 is an active email address.

HashedEmailAddress

No

String

The hashed value of the email address.

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/*", "Emails":[ { "Id":472517, "EmailContactType":300, "EmailAddress":"jsmith@omeda.com", "StatusCode": 1, "ChangedDate": "2015-03-08 21:23:34" }, { "Id":472518, "EmailContactType":310, "EmailAddress":"jsmith@domain.com", "StatusCode": 1, "ChangedDate": "2015-03-08 21:23:34" } ] "SubmissionId" : "24B9BF6F-0677-462B-942A-D87EEBD10F77" }

Failure

{ "SubmissionId":"ec0c2ba6-13f4-4934-8efa-74c2ccb33f1d", "Errors":[ { "Error":"No email address 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.