GetObjectRequest

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GetObjectRequest

[jazzklein]

On Nov 13, 2014, at 8:33 AM, Ryan Segura [email protected] wrote:

In talking with the admins, they are saying that my request is not setup properly. Here is what they have said...

"I can see your query and I believe I found the issue from your query. You are sending Identifier= instead of ID=, Change Identifier to ID

Are they a RETS 1.8 or 1.7.2 and below server? The RETS 1.8 spec in Section 5.3 under Required Request Arguments shows that ID is lined out and Identifier is used in its place (Identifier is un-itallicised whereas the production Identifier ::= UID|ID shows both UID and ID as italicized - not keywords). One of us misread the spec - I’m willing to have someone convince me that I’m the culprit, but I don’t think so.

In the mean time, tell libRETS to say it is a 1.7.2 client and it should send “ID=“ instead of “Identifier=“.

[KidSysco]

OK, this makes a lot of sense, thank you for your input!

They are telling me that ID is crossed out, not Identifier and they sent me a copy of the spec that shows the exact opposite.

lol

This whole RETS thing is quite a mess. I am a firm believer that no public interface should ever be changed. So why this is changing makes no sense to me but I am new to RETS so I may be missing something.

After more discussions with them and your input, they have admitted that they have begun the upgrade process to 1.8 but never completed it.

I imagine that a change of this nature would break all existing integration partners they have using the system, hence never changing a public interface. So this is why they have not done it yet.

I just tested using a 1.7.2 client and it is working perfectly even though they have been telling me to use 1.8.

Problem solved.

Thank you very much!!!

Woot!

[jazzklein]

On Nov 13, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Ryan Segura [email protected] wrote:

They are telling me that ID is crossed out, not Identifier and they sent me a copy of the spec that shows the exact opposite.

Yeah … to be sure I went and downloaded the spec again from rest.org to be sure I originally did this from the “final” 1.8 spec.

Glad it’s working for you.