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The following paragraphs show some Some examples on how to connect to the FEWS PI-JSON REST Web Service:

Python

To get time series from FEWS using python the following example uses the requests module and reads the time series data into a dictionary. 

import requests

url = 'http://localhost:8080/FewsWebServices/rest/fewspiservice/v1/timeseries'

params = dict(
    documentVersion='1.23',
    documentFormat='PI_JSON'
)

response = requests.get(url=url, params=params)
data = response.json()

To see an example of creating a time series plot with python using matplotlib, see see the following Python Matplotlib time series example. 

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To see an example of creating a locations.csv and attributes.csv with python, see the following  Python Locations and Attributes example.

Javascript

locations plot

Using popular javascript libraries like leaflet, jquery and mapbox a web application can be made using the FEWS PI-JSON REST Web Service. The following example shows how to get all locations from FEWS and plot them on a map:

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This requires For the following html/ javascript code see:

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 JavaScript locations Example

time series plot

Getting time series from the FEWS

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Service using javascript can be easily done using jquery. The following example uses the the morrisjs plot library to display the time series.

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For the javascript code see: JavaScript time series plot