Lokad API version 1


Important

This Lokad API version has been replaced by Lokad API Version 2. Please migrate to the newer version.

This page is not intended to be an introduction to web-services technologies but a technical reference documentation. For an introduction, please refer to SOAP article on Wikipedia. For the API documentation and tutorials, you can check the Lokad API product page.

Overview

Summary

First, the TimeSeries web-service is a time-serie data provider associated your LOKAD account. The API provides method that are equivalent to the Check Data panel of your Lokad account. This web service can be used in particular to create and populate time-series. Second, this web-service is also a forecasting provider that can be used to define forecasting tasks and to retrieve the forecasted time-series. The API provides methods that are equivalent to the Check Tasks panel of your Lokad account.

Authentication

Lokad WebServices are relying on Soap headers to perform the caller authentication. You need to populate the field TimeSeries.Authentication in order to get your call authenticated. You can use the method IsAuthenticated to check that your Soap headers are correct.

Thread-safety

All the provided WebMethods are thread-safe.

Naming

Time-series and forecasting tasks have names (i.e. strings used as identifiers). Those names could not include more than 64 characters. Additionally, the following list of characters ; [ ] < > \ / " ' are prohibited.

Methods

The following operations are supported. For a formal definition, please review the Service Description.