Access Classic APIs

The API supports different means to call:

• REST
• SOAP
• Plain HTTP with browser

Permission to the API service is granted by use of an authentication token.

To obtain your token you need to send a formal request to your Trackunit account contact.

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Important

The API token must remain secret. You shouldn’t share it with anybody, as it grants access to all your organization’s data. Keep it safe like your normal password.

Use “API” as username and your authentication token as password.

You are also able to pass your authentication token to the URL itself.

As an example: https://api.trackunit.com/public/GetUnit?token=2D0DDB5DA32E40B382EF1E8B823E1F3D

Details on the protocol and approaches supported.

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Important

All examples in this documentation are based on HTTPS calls.

With REST, you specify action in HTTP verb:

All API responses will be returned with the following code:

Current limit rule is 50 requests per second. Exceeding the limit will delay the requests for up to 3 seconds. The maximum delay queue is 200 requests.

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Important

There is a maximum timespan of 31 days for API calls.

All API responses will be returned in the following envelope:

{
   "list":[
      {
         "alarmId": 70329,
            "unitId": 34333,
            "triggeredAt": "2014-03-05T07:00:02.7421152Z",
            "address": {
                "country": "DK",
                "zipCode": "3000",
                "city": "Helsingør",
                "streetAddress": "Haderslevvej 16F"
            },
            "location": {
                "latitude": 56.025985,
                "longitude": 12.5903716666667
            }
        },
        {
            "alarmId": 70329,
            "unitId": 39670,
            "triggeredAt": "2014-03-05T07:00:02.7421152Z",
            "address": {
                "country": "DK",
                "zipCode": "2990",
                "city": "Nivå",
                "streetAddress": "Margerittens Kvarter 51"
            },
            "location": {
                "latitude": 55.9451516666667,
                "longitude": 12.4999066666667
            }
        },
        {
            "alarmId": 70329,
            "unitId": 46208,
            "triggeredAt": "2014-03-05T07:00:02.7421152Z",
            "address": {
                "country": "DK",
                "zipCode": "2740",
                "city": "Skovlunde",
                "streetAddress": "Harrestrupvej 166"
            },
            "location": {
                "latitude": 55.7004533333333,
                "longitude": 12.374295
            }
        },
        {
            "alarmId": 70329,
            "unitId": 46209,
            "triggeredAt": "2014-03-05T07:00:02.7421152Z",
            "address": {
                "country": "DK",
                "zipCode": "3060",
                "city": "Espergærde",
                "streetAddress": "Strandvejen 143A"
            },
            "location": {
                "latitude": 55.99636,
                "longitude": 12.5639
            }
        }
   ]
}

list contains the resource object for a success, status code 200.

The API supports 4 response formats

• json
• xml
• soap 1.1/1.2
• html

You can define which format you would like returned by adding a .{format} extension:

• .json
• .xml
• .html

Or by appending ?format={format} to the end of the URL:

• ?format=json
• ?format=xml
• ?format=html

Example: https://api.trackunit.com/public/GetUnit?token=2D0DDB5DA32E40B382EF1E8B823E1F3D&format=json

Alternatively the API also recognizes which format should be used with the Accept http header:

• Accept: application/json
• Accept: application/xml

As you can see, this approach only works with json and xml.

The SOAP endpoint only supports XML of course.

If you prefer to use SOAP to access API, use your favorite tool (i.e. Visual Studio) to generate client classes from WSDL:

• SOAP 1.1: https://api.trackunit.com/public/soap11
• SOAP 1.2: https://api.trackunit.com/public/soap12

In this case, you need to examine the response's ResponseStatus field manually, to see if the request was executed successfully.

If this field is present in response (not null), you may check ErrorCode and Message attributes to find the reason of failure.

An overview of data types utilized in the API, meaning both built-in data types as well as compound data types.

The built-in data types:

The compound data types:

We encourage you to try out the demo project.

The demo project has been designed to provide you with a basic understanding of how the API works.

The demo project is a range of C#/Visual Studio project files, which will exemplify both following approaches:

• REST
• SOAP

Please use the following link to download the demo project package:
API demo project