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The FEWS PI REST Web Service is hosted in a Tomcat service container. This service allows clients to interact with FEWS using a REST API. The REST Service will return PI-XML by default. For some methods
Since FEWS 2017.02 the PI-JSON format is supported as well for the following GET methods: filters, parameters, locations and parameters.
Request parameters are marked in italics and the parameter types are given between parentheses. If not specified differently, a parameter is optional.
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