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Hi
I'm a newbie with the REST API, my past experience is with a competitor's web service. I'm a VB man, so any Visual Basic code would be welcome. What I have to achieve is retrieving ratings for securities and issuers and their parent companies.
Any help / hints welcome
Bernard
I have tried to convert the C# code extracting Ratings to VB code using the code converters provided by Grupeet. The VB code works properly with a few changes. The code is attached.sample.zip You also need to add references to all DSS libraries (i.e. ThomsonReuters.Dss.RestApi.Client.dll, ThomsonReuters.Dss.Core.RestApi.Common.dll, etc)
If you still got error, please provide the code and error message.
@bernard.thouin The DSS API come with a .NET library and example application with code snippets in C#. You can use one of the code converters to convert that code to VB.NET.
I would recommend downloading the sample application from DSS website and try out various API calls..
Sorry, should have mentioned that I DID look at all sample applications, selected one (bond ratings), and tried to "convert" that one to VB... but quickly got stuck on the InstrumentIdentifierList.Create C# statement, where the code converter gets stuck with errors...:(
But I realize that, most probably, I would have to convert a lot of the underlying standard code to VB for the whole thing to work, so that looks that a never-ending attempt :(
Hello @bernard.thouin,
In addition to the solid approach suggested by Gurpreet, here is some more info to code in VB against DSS REST service:
1. As you have dealt with REST web service before, from VB, the mechanics of making a REST request are likely familiar, however, online there are lots of materials discussing REST from VB, for example REST Example.
2. In terms of our Datascope rest web service, once you have your valid credentials assigned, there will be two steps:
a. First, pass to rest access point you assigned login and password, and get back a valid 'authentication token'.
b. Next, pass to rest access point your specific request (ratings request) with valid token and get back the requested content (ratings results).
These steps are fully covered in our online tutorials, I would recommend REST API Tutorials section for a quick and solid introduction.
3. Lastly, how to pinpoint and request ratings content. All the available requests, with parameters required and elaborated in REST API Reference Tree. Specifically, for Ratings, please review
Extractions -> Extraction Raw -> RatingsExtractionRequest
... to summarize, the tutorials have the complete request approach covered, while API Reference Tree will have the specifics on all the available requests, while Datascope Data Content Guide offers the complete reference of available content, fields and templates.
Thanks for the hints, especially about the REST API Reference Tree, which looks helpful.
As mentioned in my comment to the first answer, I'm getting unsure about using VB.net, as it looks a bit "mission impossible" to me to convert the example's code from C# to VB.
Hi guys
Thanks to @veerapath.rungruengrayubkul, I have a VB.Net version of the "Create Ratings" DSS example, and it works fine (after finding out how to add references to the Microsoft.OData.* DLLs...). However, the slightly anticlimax experience is that the example, which uses IBM.N as identifier (which is a stock, and not a bond, I think) is returning NO data whatsoever, neither from my VB code, nor from the sample example... (which hopefully indirectly proves that the VB code works fine :) ).
Now, I'd like to see some data returned, so what shall I use as a bond RIC that might return some useful data ?
Thanks for help
Bernard
You can search for bond RICs using the Gov/Corp Search UI. However, in this case, data likely is not returned because of the ReportDateRangeType.Range which is to identify the issuers/issues ratings that have updated during the specified date range. If the ReportDateRangeType is changed to ReportDateRangeType.Last, the extraction returns some data.
Hi again
Thanks for the tip, I'll use that. I have, however, a problem with the
row.DynamicProperties.[Select](Function(dp) dp.Key & "=" + dp.Value) code. It throws an error on the only row returned:
System.InvalidCastException: 'Conversion from string " (" to type 'Double' is not valid.'
The only thing I changed Is the Ric code, I used US10YT, the US 10 year treasury bill.
Any idea what the cause could be ?
Regards
Bernard
The issue is that row.IdentifierType returns Double data type, so VB tries to convert " (" string to double. To fix this issue, please add ToString() on row.IdentifierType to get String instead. Below is the sample code.
Debug.WriteLine(row.Identifier & " (" + row.IdentifierType.ToString() & ") " + String.Join(", ", row.DynamicProperties.[Select](Function(dp) dp.Key & "=" + dp.Value)))
Thanks, it works, I should have thought about looking at the data type of the IdentifierType, but I thought the problem was in the dp function...
Now I'll try to make a more professional output so that I can save the fields and their values ultimately in an output table :)
Next step will be to build the identifier list from an input table. Is there some kind of Add InstrumentIdentifier to
InstrumentIdentifierList method, or how shall I go about that problem ?
The Add function is available. Below is the sample for adding two RICs. Your application can read identifiers from table and use the function to add them to the list.
Dim instrummentList = New InstrumentIdentifierList
instrummentList.InstrumentIdentifiers.Add(New InstrumentIdentifier With {.Identifier = "IBM", .IdentifierType = IdentifierType.Ric})
instrummentList.InstrumentIdentifiers.Add(New InstrumentIdentifier With {.Identifier = "TRI", .IdentifierType = IdentifierType.Ric})
Dim extractionRequest = New RatingsExtractionRequest With {
.IdentifierList = instrummentList
regards
Bernard
