year_week_announcements.md

Food Services Menu Announcements Filtered by Week

GET /foodservices/{year}/{week}/announcements.{format}

Description

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

Summary

Name	Value	Name	Value
Request Protocol	GET	Requires API Key	Yes
Method ID	1301	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 no data returned
• We cannot modify the data from this method
• The results are only for the week specified (where the week starts on Monday)
• Any value can be null

Sources

• https://uwaterloo.ca/food-services/

Parameters

GET /foodservices/{year}/{week}/announcements.{format}

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
key	filter	yes	Your API key
year	input	yes	Number representing year
week	input	yes	Number representing week
callback	filter	no	JSONP callback format

Output Formats

• json
• xml

Examples

GET /foodservices/{year}/{week}/announcements.{format}

• https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/foodservices/2013/2/announcements.json
• https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/foodservices/2013/2/announcements.xml
• https://api.uwaterloo.ca/v2/foodservices/2013/2/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":7149,
    "timestamp":1401973581,
    "status":200,
    "message":"Request successful",
    "method_id":1301,
    "method":{
      
    }
  },
  "data":[
    {
      "date":"2013-01-07",
      "ad_text":"Try our newest dining concept on campus...The Chili Pepper - Tex Mex Cuisine."
    }
  ]
}