Article details

Article details is a web service for retrieving additional information for an article. Such information could for instance be the number of comments or the hit count.

The web service is included in newsletter.war and can be invoked by invoking url-to-newsgate.war/details.

Required request attributes are:

dbid

The internal Escenic (database) identifier of the object.

source

Identifies the external source of the object.

sourceid

The external identifier of this object. This id must be unique for every article from a given source.

Either dbid or a combination of source and sourceid must be specified.

When invoked the web service resolves the requested article and returns an HTML page with additional article information.

If the article is not published, the web service will return an HTTP 404 error message.