7 Replies Latest reply on Nov 17, 2019 6:53 AM by jgoldhammer

How to get all events starting after today ascending through REST API?

jordan.van.bergen@copaco.com Jan 13, 2017 8:19 AM

We want to present the upcoming 5 events on our landingspage within Jive. We use the REST API in the following way currently:

/api/core/v3/contents?filter=type(event)&count=5&sort=dateCreatedDesc

This way you will only get the latest 5 added events. But events have a startDate. We want to present the upcoming 5 events on or after today.

How to get the upcoming 5 events out of Jive using the REST API based on the startDate of an event?

Re: How to get all events starting after today ascending through REST API?

jgoldhammer Jan 13, 2017 8:48 AM (in response to jordan.van.bergen@copaco.com)
Hi Jordan,

just a guess- it is not implemented for Jive REST API v3!
The Jive standard content page allows this filtering, but it is using REST API V2...
If you look at the network traffic, you will see these xhr requests.

Example:
__services/v2/rest/content?filterGroupID=placeContent&token=MTQ4NDMyNTIxMTY4NHwyMHxbQkA1ZTY0ODMzOA%3D%3D&itemViewID=detail&start=0&numResults=20&containerType=700&containerID=51022&filterID=contentstatus%5Bpublished%5D~objecttype~objecttype%5Bevent%5D~event%5Bupcoming%5D&itemView=detail&userID=2087

In general, these limitations suck (there are other areas as well, e.g. for ideas/votes!)!! The format of the calls is not described anywhere (or is it??) and the token is not known to us.
Jive developers, any chance to get results for these endpoints from a custom view tile via osapi calls?

cc:
Ryan Rutan
Rashed Talukder
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  jordan.van.bergen@copaco.com Jan 14, 2017 9:07 AM (in response to jgoldhammer)
  
  Is this really the case? I see more and more things happening (information not available from the REST API) that won't allow a Jive customer to make his own frontend views / layouts. Certain info is needed to present things in a way we as a customer want.
  
  Hope to hear from Ryan Rutan / Rashed Talukder that it is possible what we would like to have.
  
  So we can get a lot out of the REST API but know we as IT people get questions from the business telling us we want to have the list events coming after today!
  
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    jgoldhammer Jan 14, 2017 10:11 AM (in response to jordan.van.bergen@copaco.com)
    
    This is the result when the platform itself does not make use of all the REST endpoints... Jive simple does not know the requirements, so we have to tell them. So good to report this here...
    
    Another workaround would be to get all events from the platform with a batch call (osapi executeBatch) and filter on our own on client side. The performance downgrade depends on the amount of events in the system ...
    
    Thanks
    Jens
    
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    pushpendra.paliwal Jan 16, 2017 4:11 AM (in response to jordan.van.bergen@copaco.com)
    
    I would suggest to filter them via javascript (if applicable)
    
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    jgoldhammer Jan 25, 2017 8:02 AM (in response to jordan.van.bergen@copaco.com)
    
    Yuval Twig
    Another example how the Jive REST API 3 is not mature enough.
    Again: How can we proceed here to improve it?
    
    Thanks
    Jens
    
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      mcollinge Nov 8, 2019 6:44 AM (in response to jgoldhammer)
      
      It's disappointing to be looking at this thread nearly 3 years later, and the Event API still can't do this
      
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        jgoldhammer Nov 17, 2019 6:53 AM (in response to mcollinge)
        
        Yes, I know...
        We have built a custom endpoint for doing this. This is the only (efficient) way at the moment.
        
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