Datasets – Singapore Post (SP)

Singapore Post
SingPost is Singapore’s designated Public Postal Licensee (PPL), providing efficient and high quality domestic and international postal services. They are also the leading logistics provider in the domestic market and own one of the largest retail distribution networks.

Datasets Available

Code Snippet

.NET – How do I access a complete list of Post offices near me

public List<POEntry> GetPOFromNimbusSP(string AccountKey, string UniqueUserID)
    {

        System.Net.WebRequest wr=
          HttpWebRequest.Create(
            "http://api.projectnimbus.org/spodataservice.svc/PostOfficeSet?Latitude=1.3&Longitude=103.85&Distance=2000");
        wr.Headers.Add("AccountKey",AccountKey);
        wr.Headers.Add("UniqueUserID",UniqueUserID);
        wr.Method = "GET";
        WebResponse res = wr.GetResponse();
        string resStr
         = new System.IO.StreamReader(res.GetResponseStream()).ReadToEnd();

        XNamespace atomNS
          = "http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom";
        XNamespace dNS
          = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices";
        XNamespace mNS
          = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata";

        List<POEntry> results
          = (from item in XElement.Parse(resStr).Descendants(atomNS + "entry")
            let post = item.Element(atomNS + "content").Element(mNS +"properties")
                select new POEntry() {
                PostOfficeID post.Element(dNS +"PostOfficeID").Value,
                Name = post.Element(dNS +"Name").Value,
                Lat = post.Element(dNS + "Latitude").Value,
                Lon = post.Element(dNS + "Longitude").Value
            }).ToList();

        return results;
    }

Java – How do I access a complete list of Post Offices near me

public ArrayList<PostOffice> getPostOfficeNearMe(String accountKey, String uniqueId) {
  poList = new ArrayList<PostOffice>();
  try {
    URL _url = new URL("http://api.projectnimbus.org/spodataservice.svc/PostOfficeSet?Latitude=1.3&Longitude=103.85&Distance=2000");
    URLConnection _urlConn = _url.openConnection();
    _urlConn.setRequestProperty("accept", "*/*");
    _urlConn.addRequestProperty("AccountKey", accountKey);
    _urlConn.addRequestProperty("UniqueUserID", uniqueId);
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(_urlConn.getInputStream()));
    String line = null;
    StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();
    while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
      strBuilder.append(line);
      System.out.println(line);
    }
}

String[] IProperties = strBuilder.toString().split("<m:properties>");
    for (String str : IProperties) {
      PostOffice postOff = new PostOffice();
      postOff.setPostOfficeID(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:PostOfficeID m:type=\"Edm.Int32\">", "</d:PostOfficeID>"));
      postOff.setName(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:Name>", "</d:Name>"));
      postOff.setLatitude(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:Latitude m:type=\"Edm.Int32\">", "</d:Latitude>"));
      postOff.setLongitude(Utils.getStringBetween(str, "<d:Longitude m:type=\"Edm.Int32\">", "</d:Longitude>"));
      poList.add(postOff);
      }
    } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    } catch (Exception ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
    }
    return poList;
}

Helpers Available

.NET – C# Proxy Classes: click here | Read this blog post for more information to use these proxy classes.

JAVA – Read this blog post for more information to use JAVA to connect to the data service.

PHP & AJAX – Read this blog post for more information to use PHP/AJAX to connect to the data service.

obj C / xcode – coming soon

Terms of Use

The datasets:

• Are here as a community technology preview for a period of time (TBD).
• Cannot be used in any public offering.
• Are offered as-is with no official support.

Support

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