KB article ID: 300 The following describes different approaches to getting data to and from Judici. General notes regarding web services for providing Judici data
- The
exact syntax of the web service calls described herein is not
specified. This is in order to accommodate the existing export tools
already available in the court, so as to minimize the court's time and
effort to participate.
- The format of the data returned in response to the web service calls is also negotiable. See XML schema considerations for more.
- It is preferred that web services be RESTFUL
Non-batch approach
to providing the data- this near-real-time approach requires the court
to operate three or four web services returning XML results: - get list of all cases- this will be used for the initial loading of all cases.
- If
the court prefers to limit these queries in any way, using a specified
start date, or not sending juvenile or otherwise secured cases, this web
service can certainly do so. That said, it's important to remember
that Judici does have the capability of showing restricted data such as
juvenile cases to court-specified individual users. See Data security and privacy for more.
- At a minimum, the response shall provide the ID required in order to "get" a specific
case as described below.
- get list of changed cases-
same as above, except the list is restricted to cases known to be
changed. There are at least two ways this can be determined:
- Based on database timestamps
- Using
database triggers to maintain a list of what has been changed, This
approach can be more tolerant of communications failures, by
implementing the "remove case from list..." web service described below.
- get specific case
- Judici will use this to get the details while iterating through a list of cases provided by the court.
- In order to make Judici's data somewhat "self-healing", this web service should return the entire case so Judici can swap out everything on the case.
- Even if the court provides its data using a batch approach, this web service call will still be required if E-pay and E-plea interfaces are desired in order to allow online payments.
- remove case from list of changed cases (trigger-based
implementations only)- Judici can call this whenever it successfully
acquires a case. Only then should the case be removed form the
trigger-based list of changed cases. Among other things, this copes
with possible communications failure.
Batch approach to providing data
The
court may prefer to extract a single file of all cases changed since
the previous extract. This is certainly acceptable, though it is
commonly done at intervals which make it is less "real-time".
Although
a web service is a common way to make this "self-service", there are
many other ways (e.g. FTP etc.) which could work.
Other interfaces
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