Ancestor query How to do it?

[boutzo 0]

I'm sorry to ask these silly questions.  But I'm having trouble translating the examples from the swagger ui to actual c# code.  Is there some documentation that will translate.

 

 

Basically what it says.  How can I do it?  Its only 2 parameters but what type of query is it?

 

Do you do an item query and then do a foreach on the baseitemdto to get the parameters you're looking for?

 

I have an episode id and I need to get the series ID from it.  An episode query does not have that parameter.

Edited February 24, 2015 by boutzo

[Cheesegeezer 3089]

I'm sorry to ask these silly questions.  But I'm having trouble translating the examples from the swagger ui to actual c# code.  Is there some documentation that will translate.

 

 

Basically what it says.  How can I do it?  Its only 2 parameters but what type of query is it?

 

 

JSON

 

is that what you're after?

[boutzo 0]

^{I know the strings are in JSON format its the formatting of the c# code.  Swagger only shows the parameters the url string and the response body none of the underlying code beneath. Do you just send an itemQuery about a file and will the baseItemDto pretty much give you anything you want to know about a file?}

Edited February 24, 2015 by boutzo

[Angelblue05 4130]

@@boutzo I'm not sure I fully understand your question, but you can do a JSON Get request /Items?Ids=EpisodeId. The JSON response will return the baseItemDto list that includes the SeriesId by default.

 

It will look something like this:

 

 

Again, I'm not sure I fully understand what you are looking for. I hope this help somehow...

Edited February 25, 2015 by Angelblue05

[boutzo 0]

I know I can type that into a browser and get that response.  But I was trying to get that same response in c# with an item query.  I since figured it out and got it working.

 

I guess the question should have been,

 

"What is the work flow of obtaining different parameters ?"

 

I came up with this.

 

ItemQuery -> go through BaseItemDto and choose the params I need, store them into a variable, do work.

 

Thanks

Edited February 25, 2015 by boutzo

[ebr 14949]

The real correct answer is to use a Json serializer and deserialize those objects into proper c# classes.

 

Again, if you use the ApiClient provided for .net it will do all of this for you...

[chef 3749]

[boutzo 0]

Got It.  Fun stuff.  Learning a lot.

 

Thanks