As we move closer to an updated Emergency website (emergency.uiowa.edu) on SiteNow, it is necessary to also update the API that lives at that website. We are adopting the same JSON:API standard that Drupal has adopted. There will be changes to the API endpoints and how the data returned by the API is formatted.

Endpoint changes

• We are removing the XML API entirely. We didn't find significant usage of this version of the API. Consumers are encouraged to switch to the JSON format.
• The JSON API endpoint will change from /api/active.json to /api/active. The endpoint still delivers a JSON payload but without the file extension. The endpoint won't resolve with .json appended.

Data structure changes

The following data structure changes were necessary to adhere to the JSON:API 1.0 specification:

• The outside wrapper uihphawkalert becomes data.
• The inside wrapper hawkalert becomes attributes.
• date changes from UNIX timestamp to ISO-8601 YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD
• more_info_link has been updated to output the website URL with https:// prefix rather than directing folks to the shorter https://e.uiowa.edu. This was a requested change from Campus Safety.