Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT creativecommons.org>]

Later today we'll be rolling out a set of updates for the Creative
Commons web services (http://api.creativecommons.org).  The changes include:

* Jurisdiction names are now translated.  This was missed in the
original translation effort and has been corrected.
* Extraneous arguments to service calls are now ignored.  Previously
extra arguments caused the calls to fail.
* Calls to /issue and /get are now validated.  This is the biggest
change of the set.  Previously the values passed in as the answers XML
document (to /issue) or on the query string (to /get) were passed
through without validation.  They are now checked against the list of
allowable values returned from the /license/[class] call.  For example,
a call to /license/standard shows the possible values (@id on the enum
elements) for the "derivatives" parameter are "y", "n", and "sa" (Share
Alike).  If a value other than these three is provided for the
<derivatives> element (issue) or ?derivatives query string parameter
(get), the server will return an error.

See http://api.creativecommons.org/docs for details on error
messages/identifiers and for additional documentation.

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Nathan R. Yergler
Software Engineer
Creative Commons

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:NathanYergler