General DEB server API

Replace servername with actual address of the server.

Query the database

Request: servername/dictionary_code?action=list_starts_with&id=search_query[&element=element]

search_query

search query, must be URL encoded UTF-8

element

optional argument, search in specified element, if not given or empty, search in key element

Response: list of entry IDs

Get document

Request: servername/dictionary_code?action=getdoc&id=document_id[&transform=xslt]

document_id

database ID of selected document

transform

optional argument, transform resulting XML with given XSL transformation

Response: entry XML (plain XML or transformed with XSLT)

Save document

Request: servername/dictionary_code?action=store&id=document_id&data=encoded data

document_id

database ID of selected document

encoded data

URL UTF-8 encoded representation of an entry

Response: entry ID

Delete document

Request: servername/dictionary_code?action=deldoc&id=document_id

document_id

database ID of selected document

Response: "deleted"