Events

• Get Events
• Download Event

1. Get Events:

Retrieve details of all events within a specified time period like Upload, Download, Rename, Delete etc., in your IDrive account using the getEvents API.

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Syntax for 'getEvents' API:

HTTP method: POST

Input parameters:

uid	username or email address
pwd	password
month	month of the events
year	year of the events

Output:

Below is a sample XML output generated when you call ‘getEvents’ API:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<tree message="SUCCESS" eventcount="7">
<item event="Download" date="2011/08/28" id="RES20110828"/>
<item event="Upload" date="2011/08/29" id="BCK20110829"/>
<item event="Delete" date="2011/08/26" id="DEL20110826"/>
<item event="Copy n Paste" date="2011/08/29" id="CPW20110829"/>
<item event="Rename" date="2011/08/29" id="RNM20110829"/>
</tree>

Description:

• tree
  Root node with attributes message.
• message
  This attribute describes the operation as SUCCESS or FAIL.
• item
  Item node with attributes event,date,id
• event
  name of the event.
• date
  date of the event
• id
  event id

Following cases explain the expected outputs during INVALID operations:

• Case 1: Empty Username or Password
  
  The output is as follows:
  <tree message="ERROR" desc="INVALID PARAMETERS"/>
• Case 2: Invalid Username or Password
  
  The output is as follows:
  <tree message="ERROR" desc="INVALID USER"/> Or
  <tree message="ERROR" desc="INVALID PASSWORD"/>

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2. Download Event:

View / Download event details in your IDrive account using the downloadEvent API.

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• Input parameters
• Output
• Expected output
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Syntax for 'downloadEvent' API:

HTTP method: POST

Input parameters:

uid	username or email address
pwd	password
month	month of the events
year	year of the events
eventid	Id of the event

Output:

Below is a sample XML output generated when you call ‘'downloadEvent'’ API:

[2011/09/13 06:35:54] [122.166.15.154] [john] [Download] [myPhotos.zip] [1.24 MB]
[2011/09/13 06:35:54] [122.166.15.154] [john] [Download] [Office.doc] [3.1 MB]
[2011/09/13 06:35:54] [122.166.15.154] [john] [Download] [machine_log.txt] [8.4 MB]
[2011/09/13 06:35:54] [122.166.15.154] [john] Number of files considered for download: 3
[2011/09/13 06:35:54] [122.166.15.154] [john] Number of files downloaded: 3
[2011/09/13 06:35:54] [122.166.15.154] [john] Number of files in sync: 0

Following cases explain the expected outputs during INVALID operations:

• Case 1: Empty Username or Password
  
  The output is as follows:
  <tree message="ERROR" desc="INVALID PARAMETERS"/>
• Case 2: Invalid Username or Password
  
  The output is as follows:
  <tree message="ERROR" desc="INVALID USER"/> Or
  <tree message="ERROR" desc="INVALID PASSWORD"/>

Code snippets for Java, PHP, Python and Ruby:

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Ruby: