PANTHEON Web Services (PAWS)

In this chapter, we present PANTHEON Web services (PAWS).

Using Web Services, PANTHEON users will be able to quickly and efficiently connect various dispersed systems and exchange business logic inside and outside the company.

To begin with, allow us to clarify the basic terminology and expressions related to PANTHEON Web Services (PAWS):

• PAWS – PANTHEON Web Services is a catalouge of web services (PANTHEON APIs) that enable you to quickly and efficiently connect various dispersed systems and exhange business logics within and outisde of the company. You can access to PAWS at https://paws.datalab.eu. The page is divided into several categories of PANTHEON APIs (web services), e.g. DBObjects, Idents, Subjects, etc. Each category contains PANTHEON APIs filtered by different methods by which you can use them. PANTHEON APIs have been prepared with a general use in mind, so that you can adapt them to your needs.
• PANTHEON API is an individual web service for the communication between PANTHEON and other computer programs or systems.
• API Method (GET, PUT, POST) – The API method defines what the individual PANTHEON API has to perform in oder to get access to the service in the background and to define the responses that the client will receive in return. For example, if you use a PANTHEON API with the POST/api/Ident method, you will insert an item into the database.

You will find detailed explanations in the following chapters: