HTTP API Overview

GeognoSIS utilises an API built around the concept of resources and their representations.

• Resources may be SIS Workspace Definition (SWD)s an Overlay or a Theme.
• The representations of those resources will be JSON, a bitmap or OGC WKB.

The API maps the HTTP commands POST, GET, PATCH and DELETE to CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations.

Note: This is in contrast to SOAP which creates new arbitrary commands (verbs) and communicates using XML.

The API tries to be faithful to the web domain and uses a set of operations that can be invoked with any of the four commands GET, POST, PATCH and DELETE using the actual URL as parameters for your operations.

GeognoSIS provides a range of operations which can be carried out on the resources and are accessible at different levels of the URL.

To edit or manipulate features or data, simply start a session and load an SWD.

This is one example of a resource. You can use a Data File (SWD) added through the GeognoSIS Manager for read-only render and query requests.