Topic: Migrating to REST web-services
I've been trying to work out how to migrate my existing gateway IV 3.4 web-services to gateway V REST ones. (I know the new REST web-service documentation is still in development but there is sufficient to get started with.)
I have an existing form that allows a circular search area (OS easting/northing & radius) to be specified, as well as a set of datasets to search, species designation restrictions, start and end date limits, coarsest record resolution to use. This is all achieved using a single 'SpeciesListRequest' query. This returns a list of species, the number of records of each, their range of dates, and a map of the area searched.
The closest REST service that I've found appears to be 'taxonObservations/species'? This however does not return date-ranges for the records for each species? It also does not allow coarse resolution records (e.g. 10km) to be filtered-out? There is no map returned? Are these 'missing' features still available in the REST web-services? If so, are they documented somewhere that I've missed please?
Also what would be the syntax for specifying a circular search (WKT WGS-84 polygon filter) centred on an easting/northing and with a 2km radius? I fear this may now be messy if it has to be specified in WGS84. It would be good if OS coordinates could still be supported.
I also have web-services that return grid maps using the old 'GridMapRequest' web-service. I can't find anything that returns any gridmaps in the current REST documentation. Are these still to be documented or did I miss them?
Thanks, Keith