Group Service 🆕

The group resource contains all the groups you are your colleagues have created

Group REST API

The Group REST API is a read/write API allowing you to manage and use groups of items from other services. It is accessed through the following URL:

https://api.opendatadsl.com/api/group

The API consists of the following calls:

Method	Path	Example	Description
GET			Get the build information for this service
GET	release	v1	List groups
GET	release/key	v1/673db77858834c6a164edfd7	Retrieve a single group using it’s unique id
GET	release/type:category:name	v1/favourite:Lists:Netherlands+Data	Retrieve a single group using it’s type, category and name
GET	release/key/version	v1/673db77858834c6a164edfd7/1	Retrieve a specific version of a single group
GET	release/key/*	v1/673db77858834c6a164edfd7/*	Get a list of versions for a specific group
PUT	release/key/version/tag	v1/673db77858834c6a164edfd7/1/PROD	Tag a version with a name (which can be used instead of the version number when retrieving it)
POST	release	v1	Create or update a group, the group is the body of the POST request
DELETE	release/key	v1/673db77858834c6a164edfd7	Rollback to the previous version of a group, if it is the only version then the group will be deleted
DELETE	release/key/version	v1/673db77858834c6a164edfd7/1	Delete a specific version of a group
DELETE	release/key/*	v1/673db77858834c6a164edfd7/*	Fully delete a group, including all versions
DELETE	release/key/items/name	v1/673db77858834c6a164edfd7/items/ICE.NDEX.NLB	Remove an item from a group

Entities

Group Entity

The group entity contains the following information:

Name	Description	Type
_id	Unique id for the group	String
service	String	The name of the service where the items for this group exist
type	String	The type of this group
category	String	A category is used to categorise groups according to similar types
name	String	The name of the group
description	String	A description of the group
shared	Boolean	True if the group is accessible to everyone, false if only you can see it
items	Array	The list of items in this group (if it is static)
dynamic	Boolean	True if this is a dynamic group and the items are read using the dynamicOptions
dynamicOptions.service	String	The service used to get the list of id's, defaults to the group service
dynamicOptions.source	String	The source of the items, defaults to private
dynamicOptions.filter	String	The filter used to dynamically find the items for this group
dynamicOptions.field	String	The field for the id of the item, defaults to _id
dynamicOptions.objectfilter	String	Use this instead of filter to filter data based on master data properties

Examples

Creating a static group

POST https://api.opendatadsl.com/api/group/v1
Authorization: Bearer {{token}}

{
	"name": "rest-test",
	"type": "favourite",
	"category": "object",
	"service": "object",
	"shared": false,
	"items": [
		"ICE.IFEU.B","ICE.NDEX.NLB"
	]
}

Creating a dynamic group

POST https://api.opendatadsl.com/api/group/v1
Authorization: Bearer {{token}}

{
	"name": "rest-test4",
	"type": "favourite",
	"category": "object",
	"service": "object",
	"dynamic": true,
	"dynamicOptions": {
		"filter": "source='ICE' and exchange='IFAD'"
	}
}

List all my favourite groups

GET https://api.opendatadsl.com/api/group/v1
	?type=favourite
	&_project=category,name
Authorization: Bearer {{token}}

Change the name of a group

If you pass in the _id of a group, you can change the name, type, category etc of the group

POST https://api.opendatadsl.com/api/group/v1
Authorization: Bearer {{token}}

{
	"_id": "67d2d5992dd4cd06263587d9",
	"name": "rest-test5",
	"type": "favourite",
	"category": "FX Data",
	"service": "object",
	"dynamic": true
}

Remove an item from a group

DELETE https://api.opendatadsl.com/api/group/v1/67d2c52fd3431b26d1802ef4/items/ICE.IFEU.B
Authorization: Bearer {{token}}

Delete a group

DELETE https://api.opendatadsl.com/api/group/v1/67d2c52fd3431b26d1802ef4/*
Authorization: Bearer {{token}}

Get data using a group and ondate

GET https://api.opendatadsl.com/api/data/v1/private
	?_filter=\{_id:\{$in:\{$group:'data:favourite:Data Lists:Settlements'}}\}
	&_ondate=L-1
Authorization: Bearer {{token}}