Adding Metadatabase Records
postAdd Metadatabase Record(s)
post
https://insight.plumvoice.com/api/metadatabase_push
Add metadatabase records to a Plum Insight survey.
Request
Response
Request
Headers
content-type
optional
string
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Form Data Parameters
metadatabase
required
string
The name of the metadatabase. This is case-insensitive.
record
required
string
json encoded associative array of the column names and column values to be added. Example: {'column1': 'value1', 'column2': 'value2'} This need not include all columns, you can leave out columns in your metadatabase you do not wish to populate.
Response
200: OK
JSON
XML
JSON
{'success':true}
XML
<result><success>true</success></result>
404: Not Found
Example: The specified metadatabase did not exist.
JSON
XML
JSON
{'success':false,'error':'No metadatabase by that name exists.'}
XML
<result><success>false</success<error>No metadatabase by that name exists.</error></result>
200: success
400: invalid data supplied
401: authentication headers invalid or the account is inactive
404: metadatabase was not found
405: invalid HTTP method supplied (only POST allowed)
415: unsupported media type (Content-Type value in request)
500: database error
The return structure contains the following item(s):
Name | Data Type | Always Present | Description |
success | boolean | yes | Indicates the outcome of the request |
error | string | no | If the success value is false this provides a message indicating what error(s) occurred |
This sample PHP code makes a request to push a new record into the 'test' metadatabase and sets values for columns column1 and column2:
<?php​$params = array('metadatabase' => 'test','record' => json_encode(array('column1' => 'value1', 'column2' => 'value2')),);​$ch = curl_init();curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://insight.plumvoice.com/api/metadatabase_push");curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'your_login:your_dev_pin'); // http basic auth credentialscurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($params));curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded', 'Accept: application/json'));$result = curl_exec($ch);$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);var_dump($http_code, $result);
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