API Medications
Anyone using the API should also become very familiar with our schema documentation which contains important details about individual database table columns.
See Medication Database Schema.
Medications GET
Version Added: 21.3
Gets the list of medications that can be assigned to patients.
Rarely used. Usually just use MedicationPats GET and POST.
Example Request:
GET /medications
Example Response:
[
{
"MedicationNum": 12,
"MedName": "Glucophage",
"GenericNum": 124,
"genericName": "Metformin",
"Notes": "Antidiabetic agent",
"DateTStamp": "2016-12-01"
},
etc...
]
Example Response:
201 Created
400 BadRequest (Missing or Invalid fields)
Medications POST
Version Added: 21.3
Creates a new medication.
Rarely used. Usually just use MedicationPats GET and POST.
MedName: Required.
genericName: Optional. If not provided this will be the same as MedName.
Notes: Optional.
Example Requests:
POST /medications
{
"MedName": "Metformin"
}
{
"MedName": "Glucophage",
"genericName": "Metformin",
"Notes": "Antidiabetic agent"
}
Example Response:
201 Created
400 BadRequest (Missing or Invalid fields)
404 Not Found "No Medication with that genericName was found"