University of Washington

Student Web Service (SWS) Person API

Student Web Service (SWS) Person API — a resource of the UW-IT Student Web Service, split out per resource by the API Evangelist refine step from the institution-published SWS v5 OpenAPI. Specification public; data gated by UW NetID / X.509 client certificate and named ASTRA roles.

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Student Enrolment & Records Management BC-4720

Operations 12

GET /person The Person resource supports several Source record types. #
GET /person/{source}/{validid} The Person resource supports several Source record types. #
PUT /person/{source}/{validid} The source endpoint allows you to create a source record for a person. #
POST /person/{source}/{validid} The source endpoint allows you to update a source record for a person #
PUT /person/uwhr/* This endpoint is specifically for creating an employee source record for the… #
POST /person/{source}/{validid}/pac The pac endpoint allows you to generate a PAC for a person #
GET /v5/person/{reg_id}/registrationblock Get a student's registration blocks #
PUT /v5/person/{reg_id}/registrationblock Update a student's registration blocks #
GET /v5/person/{reg_id}/degree Search for a student's earned degrees #
GET /v5/person/{reg_id}/advisers Search for a student's academic advisers #
GET /v5/person/{reg_id} Search for a person by their reg_id #
GET /v5/person Search for people that match the supplied parameters #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://webservices.washington.edu/sws/

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-washington/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-washington-person-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

university-of-washington-person-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: University Of Washington Person API
  version: '1.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Person across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: university-of-washington-identity-registry-web-service-v2-openapi.yml, university-of-washington-student-web-service.yaml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://mango.u.washington.edu:646/registry/v2
- url: /student
tags:


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# Full source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-washington/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-washington-person-api-openapi.yml