MG Web Application

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MG Web Service API

• SOAP based Service:
  Summary of SOAP based service

  Table 1 shows the API functions in the MG SOAP Web Service.

  Function	Description	Parameter
  GetTerm	Retrieves information about the specified term	term
  GetTermByAuthor	Returns term of the specified author	term, author
  GetTermsByCategory	Returns all terms for the specified category	category
  GetTermsByAuthorCategory	Returns terms of the given category and also uploaded by the specific author.	author, category
  GetAllTerms	Retrieves all terms in the database	no input parameter

  Table 1: Functions in the SOAP Web Service.
• REST based Service:

  MG Web Service also exposes methods based on REST design principles for making a Web Service call by simply using a URL string, http://boar.cs.kent.edu/Glossary/SiteEngine/glossaryrestservice.php? as the endpoint with parameters.

  Table 2 highlights API functions and the associated URL to invoke MG REST Web Service.

  Function	URL
  GetTerm	http://boar.cs.kent.edu/Glossary/SiteEngine/glossaryrestservice.php?term=[value]
  GetTermByAuthor	http://boar.cs.kent.edu/Glossary/SiteEngine/glossaryrestservice.php?term=[value1]&user=[value2]
  GetTermsByCategory	http://boar.cs.kent.edu/Glossary/SiteEngine/glossaryrestservice.php?cat=[value1]
  GetTermsByAuthorCategory	http://boar.cs.kent.edu/Glossary/SiteEngine/glossaryrestservice.php?cat=[value1]&user=[value2]
  GetAllTerms	http://boar.cs.kent.edu/Glossary/SiteEngine/glossaryrestservice.php

  Table 2: Functions in the REST Web Service.

  Figure 1 show a sample request and response of the REST service.

  
  Figure 1: Request and Response from the REST Web Service

MG Web Client

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