Topics feed

The Topics feed returns topic data to the client. The Topics feed includes a connection to related TopicScores and Answers.

This page includes the following sections:

• Properties
• Relationships to other feeds
• Atom attributes
• Typical OData commands
• Example XML entry

Properties

The Topics feed includes the following five properties:

Relationships to other feeds

The Topics feed includes two relationships: a topic can be linked to zero-or-more topic scores and to zero-or-more answers.

This allows the client to see all topic scores and answer data for a given topic.

Atom attributes

The Atom field <title> is populated with the name of the topic.

The Atom field <updated> is populated with the finished time of the batch in which the record was imported.

Typical OData commands

Questionmark's Results API uses the Microsoft implementation of OData and thus supports all the commands found at:

OData: URI Conventions

Typical OData commands and examples of these commands that can be applied to the Topics feed include:

$filter

$filter=TopicName eq '[some assessment topic name]'

(As shown in the chart here, 'eq' means 'equal.')

$orderby

$orderby=TopicName

$expand

$expand=TopicScores

Example XML entry