WebLearn

WebLearn (Sakai) is a provider available for booking some presentations.

Making a request to the API

All requests should be made requesting JSON (by specifying the HTTP header “Accept: application/json”).

Handling errors from the API

When requesting JSON and in case of an error, some errors will be returned with a description in JSON (see original “documentation”):

  • if the access to the resource is forbidden (HTTP 403)
  • if the resource has not been found (HTTP 404)

For these errors, you will get a JSON response containing:

  • status property: “failed”
  • message property: a user-friendly message

All other exceptions will return an HTML response, you will have to handle the response code.

Booking a course

POST request to /course/cobomo/XXX/booking where XXX is the course ID.

Form parameters:

  • message: mandatory message where the user should explain the reasons to book a course
  • supervisorEmail is only mandatory if`supervisorApproval` is true when you request details on one course.

Returns an object where the status property can be:

  • WAITING: if the component is full
  • PENDING: in any other case

Getting information on one course

Request to /course/cobomo/XXX where XXX is the course ID.

Contains a property supervisorApproval which will determine if asking the user for the email address of its supervisor is mandatory.

The response contains a property supervisorApproval which determines if asking the user for

Getting information on booked course for one user

Status can be WITHDRAWN (meaning that the user has withdrawn his booking, and can book again the presentation).

Withdrawing a booked course

When a student withdraw a course, he cannot book the same course again, he would have to ask the course administrator to re-instate them.