EVE Technology Lab

Working through the returned data in /API/CallList (building a small api-lib for myself) I noticed that two calls are listed that return 404 from the server.

row accessMask="16777216" type="Character" name="CharacterInfo" groupID="3" description="Sensitive Character Information, exposes account balance and last known location on top of the other Character Information call."

row accessMask="8388608" type="Character" name="CharacterInfo" groupID="4" description="Character information, exposes skill points and current ship information on top of'Show Info'information." 

Ok, technically /EVE/CharacterInfo returns information about the character, but the endpoint is not /Char/CharacterInfo. In addition you could also call /EVE/CharacterInfo with an empty access mask, so that is missing as well.

 row accessMask="33554432" type="Character" name="AccountStatus" groupID="3" description="EVE player account status."

This one is also technically related to a character, but its endpoint is /Account/AccountStatus, not /Char/AccountStatus.


It is possible I have misinterpretted the purpose of /Api/CallList and that "type" is only referring to type of the keyID/vCode pair, not to the actual API-path itself.

I am tempted to necro my old post from last year about having the API to be self-documenting:
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4817627

I am glad to be wrong in this case.

However, it then becomes even more interesting to have /Api/CallList to provide the API path for each call explicitly (and all parameters the call would take, but that is second step in improvement).

Adding a new attribute, for example "apiPath="/eve/CharacterSheet.xml.aspx", to each call should be fairly easy and shouldn't break existing parsers.
(If nothing else, it would keep stupids like me less confused.)