WorkSpan Object API

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Operations on WorkSpan objects

Connect an external ID to a WorkSpan ID

Connect an external ID to a WorkSpan ID

Try it

Request

Request URL

Request parameters

  • string

    Object ID assigned by WorkSpan (long ID)

Request headers

  • (optional)
    string
    Media type of the body sent to the API.

Request body

Request body which includes external_id and can include field_name

{
  "field_name": "sales_details.crm_opportunity_id",
  "external_id": "000owa24575"
}
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "external_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "field_name": {
      "description": "Field name of external ID in WorkSpan. If empty, default field name of external id field will be used. Default field names are: opportunity object: 'sales_details.crm_opportunity_id'; Accound object: 'account_info.external_account_id'",
      "type": "string",
      "example": "sales_details.crm_opportunity_id"
    },
    "external_id": {
      "description": "ID from external system (ex. CRM)",
      "type": "string",
      "example": "000owa24575"
    }
  }
}

Responses

200 OK

Connection of external object to WorkSpan object is successful

Representations

{
  "object_id": "WS-Project_agpzfndzLWF",
  "external_id": "000owa24575",
  "field_name": "sales_details.crm_opportunity_id"
}
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "external_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "ID from external system (e.g. CRM)"
    },
    "object_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Object ID assigned by WorkSpan (long ID)"
    },
    "field_name": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "WorkSpan field name where the external_id from an external system is stored"
    }
  },
  "example": {
    "object_id": "WS-Project_agpzfndzLWF",
    "external_id": "000owa24575",
    "field_name": "sales_details.crm_opportunity_id"
  }
}

401 Unauthorized

Authorization Error

Representations

404 Not Found

WorkSpan object not found

Representations

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X PATCH "https://api-sandbox.workspan.com/app/v1/object/{object_id}/external_id"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"

--data-ascii "{body}" 

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers

            var uri = "https://api-sandbox.workspan.com/app/v1/object/{object_id}/external_id?" + queryString;

        }
    }
}	
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api-sandbox.workspan.com/app/v1/object/{object_id}/external_id");


            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpPatch request = new HttpPatch(uri);
            request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api-sandbox.workspan.com/app/v1/object/{object_id}/external_id?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
            },
            type: "PATCH",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://api-sandbox.workspan.com/app/v1/object/{object_id}/external_id";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"PATCH"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api-sandbox.workspan.com/app/v1/object/{object_id}/external_id');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_PATCH);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api-sandbox.workspan.com')
    conn.request("PATCH", "/app/v1/object/{object_id}/external_id?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api-sandbox.workspan.com')
    conn.request("PATCH", "/app/v1/object/{object_id}/external_id?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################
require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api-sandbox.workspan.com/app/v1/object/{object_id}/external_id')


request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body