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Good day Attila,

what exactly you wants from Locus Map to do? To directly log a caches on your web server over already existing logging solution? It is very tightly attached to Groundspeak API system, so it may be a problem. Is your add-on able to also log a caches or Locus Map should do it?

Menion

thanks for your reply

My addon download caches via perodicupdatereceiver

I would like to send a post request from LocusMAP's log visit function to our server's API endpoint

see attached

thanks

I'm thinking how this should work. What you need is some special workflow, like

• User tap on highlighted "log visit" button
• Instead of choises online/offline, it directly starts offline logging
• After confirmation of log, app notify add-on that certain log was created
• Add-on sends log on web server

Right? This is an almost impossible task without any really tight modifications made especially for your add-on.

We already have public API how to work with field notes, check this helper class: https://github.com/asamm/locus-api/blob/master/locus-api-android/src/main/java/locus/api/android/features/geocaching/fieldNotes/FieldNotesHelper.java

I'm thinking about possible workflow:

• register receiver on changes in point (like in sample app https://github.com/asamm/locus-api/blob/master/locus-api-android-sample/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml#L120)
• then you may handle information about changed point like here: https://github.com/asamm/locus-api/blob/master/locus-api-android-sample/src/main/java/com/asamm/locus/api/sample/receivers/PointChangedReceiver.java
• here is anyway one small problem. You now only need is to check, if new field note was created. If in 'PointChangedReceiver' detect, that changed point was the cache you want to work with, over cache GC Code, find it's logs with FieldNotesHelper : https://github.com/asamm/locus-api/blob/master/locus-api-android/src/main/java/locus/api/android/features/geocaching/fieldNotes/FieldNotesHelper.java#L143 . You anyway get all logs and it is not clear, what was a last real change. In fieldNote is a time, but it is a time of a log, not a time when log was really created in app.
• anyway after that, you may display dialog with list of logs from your app that offer user to send some of them to server

Does it make sense to you? Maybe you with above information may get any other useful idea how to solve it?

for first sight it is a bit difficult to me :DI'll try to understand your guide

thanks

Good evening Attila,

any progress about your implementation? As I read my previous post, it seems to be really quite complicated. Were you able to figure out some usable solution?

Menion

hello

I didn't event got enough spare time for this "project" :(