Weird API behavior

Ada

Hi! I've been trying to use IRE's open API ( http://www.ironrealms.com/IREAPIdocumentation.pdf ) to collect orglogs. But I've been having some weird issues accessing the api server.

1. The server returns an Http 403 (Forbidden) when there are no logs for an org for a given day, I can handle that but shouldn't that return an empty JSON object?
2. The 'count' items in the /orglogs.json endpoint never change when I give day=x parameter, they always reflect the state for day 0. Here are sample uris I'm using,

http://api.achaea.com/orglogs.json?password=secret&character=Ada&day=0
http://api.achaea.com/orglogs.json?password=secret&character=Ada&day=1
http://api.achaea.com/orglogs.json?password=secret&character=Ada&day=2

The count is always the same O_o
My script is hosted here:

https://bitbucket.org/adayoung/adacode/src/master/irelogs.py

Anyone know what might be causing the weird behavior? Thanks in advance!

Cardan

orglogs.json displays the count of log entries for the current day only and 'day' isn't an optional parameter for it, which is why you keep getting the same numbers back.

Theoretically you should only be getting a 403 error for an authentication failure but from looking at the code itself, it does appear that it is correctly (code-wise) returning a 403 error when the log file in question doesn't exist.

I'll see if I can find out how people should report bugs/submit ideas for the API server (since it's IRE-wide not Achaea specific) and I'll let you know.

Ada

Oh oops, thanks for clarification!

Orzaansyn

Hello @Cardan‌.

Would it be possible to allow Access-Control-Allow-Origin on the API urls? Or at least return a JSONP callback?

Orzaansyn

@Tecton ? @Sarapis‌ ? Please would you tell me where to address this request?

Ada

Hi @Orzaansyn‌! http://api.achaea.com/gamefeed.json?jsonp=parseResponse already gives this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 661
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:07:37 GMT
Expires: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:07:37 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.22
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/json
Age: 1
Connection: keep-alive

That's not usable for JSONP but yay for pretty *'s!!  

Orzaansyn

Oh. Damn. Thank you very much @Ada ... How comes it returned me a cross domain error when I tried?

Orzaansyn

Anyway, it works and it is exactly what I needed. Thank you very much.