Attribute service

Overview

The Yield Analytics API and services are exposed via a REST based interface. It is intended to make development of custom functionality comfortable to developers experienced with Web 2.0, AJAX, REST, and service oriented development platforms. Developers should have familiarity with web-based application paradigms including AJAX, XML, JSON, and the HTTP(S) protocol prior to attempting development with the Yield Analytics API and services.

The Attribute Service currently exposes interfaces related to:

• Attribute Translation creation
• Attribute Translation lookup

Content types

The Service REST API is currently designed to support the following content type:

• JSON - using Content-type: application/json

Selecting the desired content type is a choice the API developer should make on a case by case basis. API functionality is symmetrical across content types. API developers may specify the desired content type in the HTTP GET or POST method parameters or via their AJAX or HTTP client library.

Error checking and status codes

API developers should check the HTTP response codes returned from the service REST API to detect errors propagated from API calls. Successful calls to the service will result in 200 range response codes. 400 and 500 range http responses denote errors. The specific response codes and text will likely undergo change during BETA development of the API, however, the ranges will not.

Security

The service API exposes application data in a secure manner. Use of API functionality is restricted to authenticated users and is exposed over secure transport protocols. Access to the API must take place within the following context:

• Example cURL authentication

  Authentication occurs by passing credentials via http headers on each request.

  - username: curl -H "username:username"
  - password: curl -H "password:password"
  - source: curl -H "source:client_id"
  
  

• Example HTTPS authentication

  GET /api/v1/rest/
  HTTPS/1.1
  Host: yieldanalytics.xandr.com
  Accept: application/xml, application/json
  Content-Type: application/json
  username: {{username}}
  password: {{password}}
  source: {{client_id}}
  
  

• Example POSTMAN authentication

  Find an example of header settings in Postman below:

  Note

  • 'Authorization' is set to "No Auth"; the settings below are to be placed in the 'Headers' tab.
  • For a more in depth tutorial of using Postman, see Using Postman with the Yield Analytics API.

  

Confidentiality

Confidentiality is maintained by using Secure Socket Layer based communication to interact with the Yield Analytics API. API developers should prefer use of HTTPS over HTTP insecure communication whenever possible. Consult your HTTP Client library on how to enable HTTP over SSL when developing outside of a web browser context.

Paths

Convert external IDs to Yield Analytics expression lexicon

POST /api/v1/rest/attributes/convert

• Description

  Pass in external ids for the attribute and attribute value(s) in order to convert to the Yield Analytics targeting lexicon.

• Parameters

  Type	Name	Description	Required	Schema	Default
  BodyParameter	attributeConverter	attributeConverter	true	AttributeConverter	NA
  HeaderParameter	username	Your username for accessing the Yield Analytics API	true	string	NA
  HeaderParameter	password	Your password for accessing the Yield Analytics API	true	string	NA
  HeaderParameter	source	Your client source for accessing the Yield Analytics API	true	string	NA

• Responses

  HTTP Code	Description	Schema
  200	OK	StringResponse

• Consumes

  application/json

• Produces

  application/json

• Tags

  Attribute Resource

• Example cURL request

  $ curl 'https://{{client_url}}/api/v1/rest/v1/rest/attributes/create' -i -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'username: {{username}}' -H 'password: {{password}}' -H 'source: {{source}}' -d '{
  "attributeTranslation" : {
  "inputAttribute" : "attribute1",
  "inputValue" : "value1",
  "targetAttribute" : "targetattribute1",
  "targetValue" : "targetValue1",
  "adServerType" : "XFP",
  "invincible" : false
  }
  }'
  

• Example HTTP request

  POST /api/v1/rest/attributes/create HTTP/1.1
  Content-Type: application/json
  Accept: application/json
  username: {{username}}
  password: {{password}}
  source: {{source}}
  Host: https://{{client_url}}/api/v1/rest
  Content-Length: 235
  
  {
  "attributeTranslation" : {
  "inputAttribute" : "attribute1",
  "inputValue" : "value1",
  "targetAttribute" : "targetattribute1",
  "targetValue" : "targetValue1",
  "adServerType" : "XFP",
  "invincible" : false
  }
  }
  

• Example HTTP response

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
  Content-Length: 26
  
  {
  "result" : "Created"
  }
  

Create new attribute translation

POST /api/v1/rest/attributes/create

• Description

  This accepts only a JSON formatted file, parses it, and creates a new attribute in the Yield Analytics database.

• Parameters

  Type	Name	Description	Required	Schema	Default
  BodyParameter	attributeTranslation	attributeTranslation	true	AttributeTranslation	NA
  HeaderParameter	username	Your username for accessing the Yield Analytics API	true	string	NA
  HeaderParameter	password	Your password for accessing the Yield Analytics API	true	string	NA
  HeaderParameter	source	Your client source for accessing the Yield Analytics API	true	string	NA

• Responses

  HTTP Code	Description	Schema
  200	OK	StringResponse

• Consumes

  application/json

• Produces

  application/json

• Tags

  Attribute Resource

• Example cURL request

  $ curl 'https://{{client_url}}/api/v1/rest/v1/rest/attributes/create' -i -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'username: {{username}}' -H 'password: {{password}}' -H 'source: {{source}}' -d '{
  "attributeTranslation" : {
  "inputAttribute" : "attribute1",
  "inputValue" : "value1",
  "targetAttribute" : "targetattribute1",
  "targetValue" : "targetValue1",
  "adServerType" : "XFP",
  "invincible" : false
  }
  }'
  

• Example HTTP request

  POST /api/v1/rest/attributes/create HTTP/1.1
  Content-Type: application/json
  Accept: application/json
  username: {{username}}
  password: {{password}}
  source: {{source}}
  Host: https://{{client_url}}/api/v1/rest
  Content-Length: 235
  
  {
  "attributeTranslation" : {
  "inputAttribute" : "attribute1",
  "inputValue" : "value1",
  "targetAttribute" : "targetattribute1",
  "targetValue" : "targetValue1",
  "adServerType" : "XFP",
  "invincible" : false
  }
  }
  

• Example HTTP response

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
  Content-Length: 26
  
  {
  "result" : "Created"
  }
  
  

Definitions

AttributeConverter

AttributeTranslation

StringResponse

A JSON object to hold the string results of api queries.

Related topic

Yield Analytics API