GET Country/Countries

Gets country data relevant to the Contracts Finder system.

Request Information

URI Parameters

None.

Body Parameters

None.

Response Information

Resource Description

A CountryResponse containing all the relevant country data.

CountryResponse

Name	Description	Type	Additional information
Countries	Gets or sets list of Countries.	Collection of Country	None.

Response Formats

HTTP response status code: 200

application/json, text/json

Sample:

{
  "countries": [
    {
      "name": "England",
      "code": "ENG"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wales",
      "code": "WLS"
    }
  ]
}

application/xml, text/xml

Sample:

<CountryResponse xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/IPL.ContractsFinder.WebApi.Shared.Models">
  <Countries xmlns:d2p1="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/IPL.ContractsFinder.BusinessEntities">
    <d2p1:Country>
      <d2p1:Code>ENG</d2p1:Code>
      <d2p1:Name>England</d2p1:Name>
    </d2p1:Country>
    <d2p1:Country>
      <d2p1:Code>WLS</d2p1:Code>
      <d2p1:Name>Wales</d2p1:Name>
    </d2p1:Country>
  </Countries>
</CountryResponse>

HTTP response status code: 403

When the user has submitted too many requests, no further requests should be made until after 5 minutes

text/plain

Sample:

Body:

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