Hi, The main API code is in https://github.com/mysociety/theyworkforyou/tree/master/www/docs/api with the wrapper API functions in api_functions.php (the other thing linked to is a separate Google App Engine application).
To be overly pedantic ;-) The API does not claim the results are actual JSON, as far as I'm aware - probably for precisely this reason, that internally TheyWorkForYou still uses ISO-8859-1. That being said, it would obviously be better if its output were in UTF-8 and it was JSON - so thanks for your offer :-) ATB, Matthew On 20 May 2013, at 13:51, Dave Cross wrote: > I'm doing some work using the TWFY API and I think that some problems I'm > getting might be down to it returning incorrect headers (and data). > > For example: > > $ curl --head > "http://www.theyworkforyou.com/api/getConstituency?name=Ynys+Mon&output=js&key=$TWFY_KEY"; > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Content-Type: text/javascript; charset=iso-8859-1 > x-url: > /api/getConstituency?name=Ynys+Mon&output=js&key=CpkcgmCFQJpAAGnb3oE6XHuy > Content-Length: 201 > Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 12:50:42 GMT > Age: 0 > > It's the Content-Type header that bothers me. I think that's wrong for two > reasons. Firstly, it should be 'application/json' and secondly (and more > importantly) I thought that JSON should be encoded in UTF-8 by definition. > > As it happens, the charset value is correct. The data I'm getting back *is* > ISO-8859-1. But that's a problem for some of the JSON tools that I'm using > which are (understandably) confused by JSON that isn't in UTF-8. > > I understand that the differences between ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 are tiny > across all of the data that TWFY holds. The example above is about the only > one I can think of. But it's an important one to my application. > > I anyone wanted to point me at the relevant part of your github repo then I'd > be happy to attempt a patch. And if I'm bringing this up in completely the > wrong place, then please point in the right direction. _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
