Character Set Support
Licensing Considerations
Access to the Academic Benchmarks data and services is licensed by breadth of coverage (authority and subject area) as well as depth of metadata and functionality. If you attempt to access a feature or piece of data and receive a 401 error, check your credentials and the details of the error message body. It may be that your current license does not support the call you are making. In some instances, you'll get a valid response, but the data related to one of these features will simply not be included in the response. E.g. if you are licensed for Standards, but not Topics, when you retrieve a Standard the topics relationship will not exist.
To clarify or discuss your licensing, contact AB Support at Instructure or your sales representative.
Character Set Support
UTF-8 is the recommended character set for transmitting data using AB Connect - AB Connect stores data in UTF-8 and it is the most common character set on the web. However, as adoption for Unicode and UTF-8 has evolved over the life of Academic Benchmarks, we've built support for a few other character sets to support legacy situations. AB Connect supports RESPONSES in UTF-8, latin1, ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252 character sets.
Note that at this time AB Connect does not support REQUESTS in any character set other than UTF-8.
To request a specific character set response, include the Accept-Charset HTTP header in your request and supply one of the supported values:
utf-8
iso-8859-1
latin1
windows-1252
In the case that utf-8 is desired, there is no need to actually include the Accept-Charset header as utf-8 is the default.
The AB Connect response includes a Content-Type header indicating the data type (application/json) as well as the character set of the response. E.g.
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