Removal of GSAK Macro Link

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Removal of GSAK Macro Link

Post by caughtatwork » 08 July 19 2:12 pm

Effectively immediately the API that is called via the GSAK macro will be deprecated.

We will be removing this functionality from Geocaching Australia immediately.

If you have a GSAK Macro that gets 200 geocaches in a GPX file via the public_gsak_gpx_by_comma_separated call then effectively immediately you should seek to replace that macro with another method.

We apologise for the inconvenience, but as far as we can tell this only affects one user (they will be advised) and the technical debt associated with this code is too high for our developers to maintain.

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Re: Removal of GSAK Macro Link

Post by mtrax » 10 July 19 10:41 pm

Is there another method?

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Re: Removal of GSAK Macro Link

Post by caughtatwork » 11 July 19 8:43 am

You can call the API to get a query and caches or the API to get the geocaches by a list.
https://geocaching.com.au/api/services/ ... aches.html
https://geocaching.com.au/api/services/ ... aches.html
They will both be in JSON format as that's what the API provides.
We have no method to provide a GPX file by a list of geocache ID's as the API is JSON based and I don't want to mix them up.

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Re: Removal of GSAK Macro Link

Post by mtrax » 11 July 19 9:40 am

As far as I know GSAK doesn't handle JSON so these are not an option.

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Re: Removal of GSAK Macro Link

Post by caughtatwork » 11 July 19 9:59 am

GSAK does "something" with JSON although it may be a custom handler.

You can get a list of queries that belong to the signed in geocacher.
https://geocaching.com.au/my/query/list.json
I think that's part of your macro so you must know how GSAK handles JSON parsing.
You can then get a GPX file based on the query you select (which is passed as a GPX file).

I also assume that GC don't provide a GPX file when you call their API (although I really don't know) for a list of geocaches, so there must be "something" that handles it.

Simpy put the function was technical debt (too much time and effort to update vs. the use of the function). It get's used "maybe" once a week and by very few people.
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