API Endpoint Proposal - Make new observations

KD9KCK · November 16, 2018, 5:43pm

Once I get some feed back on this I will begin to make a merge request to implement it using the current code from the observation/new page as a base.

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/wgaylord/87d4eb628e35fafce957f6c844816176

Satnogs observation creation api proposal

ENDPOINT: POST https://network.satnogs.org/api/jobs/

What it does: Creates a new observation on a station using the provided data. 

TEMP Station must be owned by api_token for now unless admin.

form-data: 
  ground_station
  start
  end

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I believe it would be of best interest to lock down this api to only stations the user owns as automatically scheduling on other users stations seems to require adding in some permissions.

Any comments would be greatly liked…

cgbsat · November 21, 2018, 8:52pm

That sounds like it covers everything we need. Besides the authorization checks it should check if the satellite is actually above the horizon.

cshields · November 22, 2018, 12:32am

random note: this will have to be made through the API (as you have listed), once we roll out auth0/SSO next month, submissions coming in via observation/new will have to be made with a browser that can handle the auth cookies.