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Jay Williams edited this page Mar 7, 2012 · 6 revisions

Example in XML

Request

This is requesting the photo 123456 informations: title, description and publish-date

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<xml>
	<method>photo.get</method>
	<request>
		<id>123456</id>
		<fields>title</fields>
		<fields>description</fields>
		<fields>publish-date</fields>
	</request>
</xml>

Response

The requested data are provided like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<xml>
	<status>valid</status> 
	<response>
		<title>My best photo</title>
		<description>This photo was token ...</description>
		<publish-date>2011-08-24T12:33:42+01:00</publish-date>
	</response>
</xml>

Response Error

If an error occurs like an unknown photo id:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<xml>
	<status>error</status>
	<code>no_result</code>
	<message>There is no photo corresponding to the 'id' : 123456</message>
</xml>

Thanks to Jay Williams (US), Alban Leroux (FR) for writing this documentation.