Question

I want to get time entries of Freckle using its API for some specific dates, but either I get 404 – Not Found and when I change the formation of URL it generates 406 – Not Acceptable. And when I want to access them without using the date filter It works fine. The URI I am sending for date filter is:

        string dFilter = @"\ -data'search[from]=2012-07-05'";
        string uri = @"https://apitest.letsfreckle.com/api/entries.xml"+dFilter;
        webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
        webRequest.Headers.Add("X-FreckleToken:lx3gi6pxdjtjn57afp8c2bv1me7g89j");
        webRequest.Method = "GET";
        WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse();
        StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(webResponse.GetResponseStream());
        responseXML = sr.ReadToEnd();

can you tell me how to use this date Filter correctly? The Documentation of API can be found at:
Documentation

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I think the problem is that you’re including the filter in the URL using a space and command line options which are part of a curl command.

The documentation shows things like:

curl -G -H "[stuff]" https://apitest.letsfreckle.com/api/entries.xml \
  -d 'search[from]=2009-10-10'

There the \ is a line continuation, and -d is used to pass data for the request. The quotes are just to keep it all in one parameter for the shell. The -G says to still use a GET request though, and put the data in the URL… but it’s not quite as you’ve done it. Try this:

string filter = "search[from]=2012-07-05";
string uri = @"https://apitest.letsfreckle.com/api/entries.xml?" + filter;

(Also note that you ought to use a using statement for the WebResponse and the StreamReader.)