Status of the API documentation
Problem reported by Richard Cooper 11 years ago
The ClearBooks API seems to be very poorly documented.
Less that 40% of the API is documented at all. The documentation lists 12 methods. Parsing the WSDL file shows that there are actually 32 methods available. And the methods which are documented are documented poorly. For example:
- The createpayment() method takes three parameters which are not documented - project, fxRate and bsAccount.
- The docs for listEntities() says "See entity from updateEntity" but there is no documentation for updateEntity
- If I go by the documentation for createEntity() to get an idea of what listEntities() returns then the documentation is missing all of the bank information which is returned - accountNumber, sort code, name, bankName.
- The listAccountCodes() method returns a "default_vat_rate" param which is listed in the documentation as a "string" but with no description of the format of the contents. Sure, it's easy to guess what default_vat_rate='0.175' means. But what about default_vat_rate='' or default_vat_rate='0.00:Out'
And that's just from the small amount of testing I've done so far with the API. I've only really looked at those 3 methods.