Summary

This service returns a list of Customer Ids for Customers that were changed within a given date range. The date range cannot exceed 90 days.

A change is defined as:

• When the customer is first created a change is logged for the customer at that point.
• Any modification to a customer record via any process.

A change can occur when customer data (contact, subscription, behavior) is changed via

• file processing
• API call (included webforms submissions)
• field update
• Customer View
• bulk load
• issue close (paid is changed to expired/suspended, controlled active/inactive)
• merge process

General Technical Requirements

The following technical requirements apply to all requests for this API.

Base Resource URI

Production: https://ows.omeda.com/webservices/rest/brand/{brandAbbreviation}/customer/change/startdate/{startDate}/enddate/{endDate}/*

Testing:    https://ows.omedastaging.com/webservices/rest/brand/{brandAbbreviation}/customer/change/startdate/{startDate}/enddate/{endDate}/*

brandAbbreviation is the abbreviation for the brand startDate is the beginning of the date range (inclusive) endDate is the end of the date range (inclusive)

*Note – formatting for either date value is MMddyyyy or MMddyyyy_HHmm with the hours and minutes (on a 24 hour clock) being optional. For example, January 2, 2013 1:23 PM would be formatted as 01022013_1323

HTTP Headers

The HTTP header must contain the following element: x-omeda-appid a unique id provided to you by Omeda to access your data. The request will fail without a valid id.

Content Type

The content type is application/json. JSON application/json

JSON is the preferred data exchange format, because it is lightweight and, in most cases, faster to process and utilizes less bandwidth. There are many available open-source JSON libraries available. See json.org for details.

Supported HTTP Methods

There is one HTTP method supported:

1. GET : See W3C’s GET specs for details.

Lookup Customer Ids of Customers changed within a specific date range

Retrieves an array containing all customer ids of customers that were changed within the given dates and the date that the customer was last modified.

Field Definition

The following tables describe the hierarchical data elements.

In addition to the below elements, a SubmissionId element will also be returned with all responses. This is a unique identifier for the web services response. It can be used to cross-reference the response in Omeda’s database.

Customer Elements

Element Name	Always Returned…	Data Type	Description
Id	Yes	Integer	the internal customer identifier
Url	Yes	Link	a link reference to the customer data as a resource.
DateChanged	Yes	Date	the last date the customer was changed or when the customer was first created.
CreatedDate	Yes	Date	when the customer was first created.
CustomerStatusId	Yes	Integer	the status of the customer. 0 = Inactive, 1 = Active.

Response

HTTP Response Codes

Status	Description
200 OK	The request has succeeded. See Example Response below.
403 Forbidden	Typically, this error occurs when the credentials are erroneous. Potentially, an incorrect x-omeda-appid.
404 Not Found	Typically, this error occurs with a malformed URL or the resource that is searched for is not found.
500 Internal Server Error	In the rare case that there is a server-side problem, this response will be returned. This generally indicates a problem of a more serious nature, and submitting additional requests may not be advisable. Please contact your Omeda Account Representative if the issue continues.

Success

{
   "Customers":[
      {
         "Url":"https://ows.omedastaging.com/webservices/rest/brand/CCB/customer/122234562/*",
         "Id":122234562,
         "DateChanged":"2018-07-04 00:00:00.000",
         "CreatedDate":"2018-03-14 15:25:43.210",
         "CustomerStatusId":1
      }, 
      {
         "Url":"https://ows.omedastaging.com/webservices/rest/brand/CCB/customer/23456789/*",
         "Id":23456789,
         "DateChanged":"2018-12-17 16:49:35.573",
         "CreatedDate":"2018-09-04 11:25:52.057",
         "CustomerStatusId":0
      }
   ],
   "SubmissionId":"4085DDD2-22FF-4FFE-22CB-962CCAE603B6"
}

Failure

{
   "SubmissionId":"ec0c2ba6-13f4-4934-8efa-74c2ccb33f1d",
   "Errors":[
      {
         "Error":"No customers changed within that date range."
      }
   ]
}

Possible Error Messages

In the event of an error, an error response will be returned. Here are some of the possible responses you might receive.

No start date provided.
No end date provided.
Invalid start date.
Invalid end date.
Start date must be before end date
No customers changed within that date range.