announcements.md

Food Services Menu Announcements

GET /foodservices/announcements.{format}

Description

This method returns additional announcements regarding food served in the current week

Summary

Name	Value	Name	Value
Request Protocol	GET	Requires API Key	Yes
Method ID	1319	Enabled	Yes
Service Name	foodservices	Service ID	269
Information Steward	Food Services	Data Type	Direct DB Connection
Update Frequency	Every request (live)	Cache Time	0 seconds

Notes

• Usage won't increase if there is not data returned
• We cannot modify the data from this method
• The results are only for this current week (where the week starts on Monday)
• Any value can be null

Sources

• https://uwaterloo.ca/food-services/

Parameters

GET /foodservices/announcements.{format}

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
key	filter	yes	Your API key
callback	filter	no	JSONP callback format

Output Formats

• json
• xml

Examples

GET /foodservices/announcements.{format}

• http://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/foodservices/announcements.json
• http://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/foodservices/announcements.xml
• http://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/foodservices/announcements.json?callback=myResponse

Response

Field Name	Type	Value Description
date	object	Advertisement date object
ad_text	string	Advertisement text

Any value can be null

Output

JSON

{
  "meta":{
    "requests":3854,
    "timestamp":1381960043,
    "status":200,
    "message":"Request successful",
    "method_id":1301,
    "version":2.07,
    "method":{
      
    }
  },
  "data":[
    {
      "date":"2012-06-25",
      "ad_text":"Join us for Movie Month Madness main feature \"Dinner\" Wednesday, June 27 from 4:30pm to 8pm!"
    }
  ]
}