timestreams.update_context XML RPC procedure

Timestreams is an API that provides functions to add and organise sensor data. This page describes the timestreams.update_context XML-RPC API procedure.

Description

A POST request containing this procedure name will update context records matching the given context_type, value and start_time. This is expected to be used to add an end time to such records.The following is the procedure call signature to update context records: <methodCall> <methodName>timestreams.select_context_by_type_and_value</methodName> <params> <param><value><string>User Name</string></value></param> <param><value><string>Password</string></value></param> <param><value><string>Context type</string></value></param> <param><value><string>Value</string></value></param> <param><value><string>Start time</string></value></param> <param><value><string>End time</string></value></param> </params> </methodCall>

Parameter	Description
User Name	Name of blog user
Password	Password of blog user
Context type	A key (such as "Place").
Value	An identifier such as "Brazil".
Start time (optional)	The time that a context record started to hold from. If this value is omitted then all matching records that hold until the end time will be updated.
End time	The time that the context records should cease to hold from.