Demo API

To make integration of our system easier for you, there is a demo page on your iVectorConnect Test homepage where you can send calls to your test system and view the responses.

Accessing the demo

The page can be accessed via the link on your iVectorConnect homepage, or directly at this URL:

http://[YourTestURL].ivectorconnect.co.uk/demo.aspx

If you are testing, ensure that you use your test URL and not your live URL, or calls from the demo page will make calls to your live system.

Using the demo

The main features of the demo page are a large text area where you can enter any request and a submit request button, to send the request to your API.

When you click Submit Request, the contents of the text area will be sent to the API and you will see the response returned in the text area. This will help you to debug your requests and familiarise yourself with the responses returned.

Templates

In the top right hand corner of the demonstration page, you will see a dropdown list labelled Templates. The templates are a series of test requests for some of the main iVectorConnect calls, so that you do not have to start from scratch.

These templates contain example test calls, with dummy data for login details and other data, like location IDs, dates etc. The specific data in these calls will have to be changed to match the data on your system in order for you to return useful results.

For example, if you simply submit the test request for any call, it is likely to return a response that says the request failed, as it was unable to login. This is because you need to replace the default login details in the test requests to login details set up in your own system.

Next Steps

Now that we've looked at how iVectorConnect works, making calls and using the demo API, the next section goes through how to look up the data set up in your system, so that in the section following that you can use this data to make calls to the API and make bookings.

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