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Identifiers

Identifier API

The identifier API only supports POST.

Create

Create a new alphanumeric identifier for a given identifierType or identifierFormat.

Identifier format

Create your own identifier format using the following codes.

  • A = Alphanumeric
  • L = Alphabetic characters only
  • N = Numeric
  • D = Numeric
  • Any other character (i.e. dashes, periods) will be included as-is.
$ curl -i -X POST -b cookies.txt \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://openboxes.ngrok.io/openboxes/api/identifiers?identifierFormat=AAANNN

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:49:26 GMT

{"data":"VCU789"}

Identifier type

Allowed identifierType values: * requisition * product * productSupplier * transaction * shipment * order

$ curl -i -X POST -b cookies.txt \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
https://openboxes.ngrok.io/openboxes/api/identifiers?identifierType=product

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:49:40 GMT

{"data":"VR26"}

These formats can be configured in openboxes-config.properties

openboxes.identifier.transaction.format = AAA-AAA-AAA
openboxes.identifier.order.format = NNNLLL
openboxes.identifier.product.format = LLNN
openboxes.identifier.productSupplier.format = LLNN
openboxes.identifier.requisition.format = NNNLLL
openboxes.identifier.shipment.format = NNNLLL

You can also edit the available characters and digits available for the identifierFormat mask. This allows you to remove characters that may be confused with others (i.e. I, 1, l or 0 and O). By default we keep all numeric digits and remove the conflicting alphabetic characters.

openboxes.identifier.numeric = 0123456789
openboxes.identifier.alphabetic = ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTUVXYZ
openboxes.identifier.alphanumeric = 0123456789ABCDEFGHJKMNPQRSTUVWXYZ