Some implementations find it useful to add a school year in the API root, for example, as part of a partitioning strategy or to distinguish data associated with previous years from data for the current year. In the Ed-Fi ODS / API, the presence of the school year value in the API root is configurable, and off by default.

Configuration

Routing

When enabled, the base URI follows /{api_area}/{version}/{year} pattern. See API Routes for details.

How to Enable

The ODS / API can be configured for year-specific configuration through the following steps:

• Update ApiSettings:Mode key in the appsettings.json of the EdFi.Ods.WebApi project to: "Mode": "YearSpecific"

• Initialize development environment for year-specific configuration using the initdev command as outlined in the Getting Started Guide. 

• As an example: from a PowerShell prompt, navigate to the Ed-Fi-ODS-Implementation folder and run the Initialize-PowershellForDevelopment.ps script, followed by the initdev command passing InstallType and OdsTokens parameters. OdsTokens is a semicolon-separated list of school years:

  initdev -InstallType YearSpecific -OdsTokens '2020;2021'

• The same parameters noted above can be used with the deployment script packaged with EdFi.Suite3.RestApi.Databases NuGet for non-development environments. See Getting Started - Binary Installation Steps for details. 

See the Extensibility & Customization section for information on using year-specific configuration as a facet of a partitioning strategy.