About Fields

Overview

All successful responses sent from the API include a header containing information
about the request that caused the response to be produced. This 'about' section will be
the first area included within the response and will contain information describing what
was processed and when, and any metadata or external id the call requested to be returned.
Following is a summary of the fields contained within the 'about' section:

XML Response Example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response xmlns="http://www.semantichacker.com/api">

        <about>
                <requestId>71E12DCF2B14CB9BD89B4444F3353633</requestId>
                <docId>BA0D26C21A91581510DE71253E523B8C</docId>
                <systemType>signature</systemType>

                <configId>odp_2007_l1_1.7k</configId>
                <contentType>text/html</contentType>
                <contentDigest>9D546459ABDE535997FFCC92B293C49D</contentDigest>
                <requestDate>2011-08-31T15:01:03+00:00</requestDate>

                <systemVersion>2.1</systemVersion>
                <sourceUri>http://www.distrowatch.org</sourceUri>
        </about>
        <siggen>
        ...
        ...
        ...
        </siggen>

</response>

JSON Response Example

{
    "about":     {
        "requestId": "0B9A7E0B14C965B2DCBF631D822B5F84",
        "docId": "BA0D26C21A91581510DE71253E523B8C",
        "systemType": "signature",
        "configId": "odp_2007_l1_1.7k",
        "contentType": "text/html",
        "contentDigest": "9D546459ABDE535997FFCC92B293C49D",
        "requestDate": "2011-08-31T15:02:58+00:00",
        "systemVersion": "2.1",
        "sourceUri": "http://www.distrowatch.org"
    },
    "siggen": {
    ...
    ...
    ...
}
}