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Can I set the minute precision of the timezone i.e.
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GMT+
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05:30
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whole hours precision
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Yes, this is possible, WS API currently supports time zones of hourly or half-hourly precision "UTC+0705:30" (India Standard Time). Time zones like "UTC+05:45" (Nepal) are currently not supported.
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Download SOAP UI (standalone free application for sending HTTP requests) from here: https://www.soapui.org/
Install SOAP UI and download following demo project provided by Solargis: ws-demo-soapui-project.xml
Run SOAP UI and import the ws-demo-soapui-project.xml (File → Import Project)
Depending on whether you have DataDelivery or LTA API license you should navigate to either DataDeliveryRest or PvPlannerRest Demo request
from the imported project. Rest of this guide shows steps for DataDelivery license, however the steps for LTA API are very similar.Navigate to the DataDeliveryRest Demo request as seen on following image and submit the request with the "play" button:
After the request is finished, you should see HTTP status 200 (OK) and following valid response - this should work immediately out of the box (no need for you to change / configure anything):
Now that you have established that the demo is working correctly you can start adapting the demo request for your license. In order to do so,
you need to change key from "demo" to the one you were provided with your WS API account and also to adapt XML body of the request to the one that will work with your key,
therefore based on your account permissions you may need to change latitude / longitude of the request, dateFrom / dateTo etc. We strongly recommend that you start
with the simplest requests which are known to be working and build up from there. As already mentioned in "quick checklist" you can find working examples of simple
DataDelivery or LTA requests here : DataDelivery WS: request / response examples and here: LTA service
After you have made the necessary updates you should be able to successfully submit the request and receive correct XML response. If you do not see the expected correct XML response, then you might need to change the view to JSON or RAW.
Most of the times when the API call fails and you switch to JSON view you will see message like this which provides hint why the request has failed. E.g.: in the following case it suggests that you should remove "DNI" from the list of the processing keys.
Once you get the simple XML requests working with your secret key then you can attempt to add more complex stuff (i.e. detailed configuration of your PV power plant etc.) We recommend that you proceed in incremental steps and after
each change you validate that the request is still working. That way if something breaks you know which change has caused it and you can work around it.Afterwards: if some request is not working in your implementation, please first make sure that the same request is also not working in SOAP UI, this is to eliminate potential bugs in your implementation. If the request is not working in your implementation
but it is working in SOAP UI then you will need to review your implementation. As it's difficult for us to know what are the problems in your implementation we generally can't provide support regarding your implementation. But in order to solve
the issues we recommend to compare that everything in your implementation is 1:1 to the working SOAP UI request, mainly that:the XML content of the request in your implementation is identical to the SOAP UI
the url in your implementation matches the url in SOAP UI, including the correct key as the url parameter
you are using HTTP header Content-Type set to "application/xml" in your implementation
you are using POST method to do the HTTP call in your implementation
you are also setting the request body (i.e. parameter of the POST method) to the intended XML request string in your implementation
If after following these steps you are convinced that some request that is supposed to be working is failing then please ask for our technical support
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