Connect

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connect

connect (string key, int cmd)
Connect to the TMs and glossaries.

Parameters

key	string	a valid API Key, generated by making a share at www.freetm.com
cmd	int	command number is 22

Returned value

connections

array

connection details id int connection ID type string connection type wkgid string workgroup ID userId string user ID tms array TM detail tmid int TM ID srcLang string source language trgLang string target language name string assigned or symbolic name readonly boolean read/write status glos array glossary detail gloid int glossary ID srcLang string source language trgLang string target language name string assigned or symbolic name readonly boolean read/write status error string error during connection

Request example

json post with javascript

var data = {};
data["key"] = "example@key";
data["cmd"] = 22;
ar xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("POST", "anywhere.wordfast.com/wfa/api", true);
xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8");
xhr.send(JSON.stringify(data));

post

<form action="anywhere.wordfast/wfa/api" method="post">
   Key:<input type="text" id="key" name="key" value="example@key"/>
   Cmd:<input type="text" id="cmd" name="cmd" value="22"/>	
   <input type="submit" value="Submit">				
</form>

get

anywhere.wordfast.com/wfa/api?key=example@key&cmd=22

Response example

json

{

    "connections": [{
                 "id":      1
                 ,"type":   "WFA"
                 ,"wkgid":  "#TC4=XNTd6" 
                 ,"userId": "g7PWd4"
                 ,"tms": [{
                            "tmid":1, "srcLang":"DE-DE", "trglang":"EN-US", "name":"cat", "readonly":"false"
                      }
                      ,{...}
                  ]
                  ,"glos": [{
                            "gloid":1, "srcLang":"DE-DE", "trglang":"EN-US", "name":"cat", "readonly":"false"
                      }
                      ,{...}
                  ]
                 ,"error":  ""
            }
            ,{...}
    ]      
}

without white space (new line, carriage return or tabulation).

text

id:1 LF
type:WFA LF
wkgid:#TC4=XNTd6 LF
userId: g7PWd4 LF
tmid:1 tab srcLang:DE-DE tab trglang:EN-US tab name:cat tab readonly:false LF
gloid:2 tab srcLang:DE-DE tab trglang:EN-US tab name:cat tab readonly:false LF
error: LF

LF is a Line feed (new line \u000A) tab is a tabulation (\u0009)

Remarks

Timeout is 30 seconds
TM types are WFA (hosted by Wordfast TM server having only private TUs), SPE (A specific TM hosted by someone else and may contain public and private TUs), VLTM (Very Large TM Server hosted by Wordfast having a limited number of TMs containing only public TUs)
Glossary types are WFA, SPE, IATE.