Course Schedule API inconsistency questions

volovikariel commented 1 year ago

I've noticed some things that look like inconsistencies, but I'm not sure if they are.

Here's a response returned from calling the course schedule BIOL/201 endpoint:

{
  "courseID": "002625",
  "termCode": "2141",
  "session": "13W",
  "subject": "BIOL",
  "catalog": "201",
  "section": "50",
  "componentCode": "LEC",
  "componentDescription": "Lecture",
  "classNumber": "1161",
  "classAssociation": "1",
  "courseTitle": "INTRODUCTORY BIOLOGY",
  "topicID": "",
  "topicDescription": "",
  "classStatus": "Active",
  "locationCode": "LOY",
  "instructionModeCode": "P",
  "instructionModeDescription": "In Person",
  "meetingPatternNumber": "1",
  "roomCode": "CC320",
  "buildingCode": "CC",
  "room": "320",
  "classStartTime": "18.30.00",
  "classEndTime": "21.00.00",
  "modays": "N",
  "tuesdays": "Y",
  "wednesdays": "N",
  "thursdays": "N",
  "fridays": "N",
  "saturdays": "N",
  "sundays": "N",
  "classStartDate": "07/05/2014",
  "classEndDate": "19/08/2014",
  "career": "Undergraduate",
  "departmentCode": "BIOLOGY",
  "departmentDescription": "Biology",
  "facultyCode": "AS",
  "facultyDescription": "Faculty of Arts & Science",
  "enrollmentCapacity": "72",
  "currentEnrollment": "66",
  "waitlistCapacity": "0",
  "currentWaitlistTotal": "0",
  "hasSeatReserved": ""
}

mondays is misspelled as modays. Would it be possible to get this fixed?
In the docs it marks the type of section as an integer. But it's actually either a string (e.g: 04L) or an integer, it should be marked as having the type string instead so as to handle both cases, shouldn't it?
hasSeatReserved is marked as a boolean, but it's sometimes empty (neither Y nor N, just ""), is there a reason why it doesn't default to N?

Additionally, the currentWaitlistTotal is sometimes -1, why is that?

{
courseID: '004436',
termCode: '2152',
session: '13W',
subject: 'CIVI',
catalog: '432',
section: 'LL-X',
componentCode: 'LAB',
componentDescription: 'Laboratory',
classNumber: '1729',
classAssociation: '1',
courseTitle: 'SOIL MECHANICS',
topicID: '',
topicDescription: '',
classStatus: 'Active',
locationCode: 'SGW',
instructionModeCode: 'P',
instructionModeDescription: 'In Person',
meetingPatternNumber: '1',
roomCode: 'H0015',
buildingCode: 'H',
room: '0015',
classStartTime: '17.15.00',
classEndTime: '19.05.00',
modays: 'Y',
tuesdays: 'N',
wednesdays: 'N',
thursdays: 'N',
fridays: 'N',
saturdays: 'N',
sundays: 'N',
classStartDate: '14/09/2015',
classEndDate: '20/09/2015',
career: 'Undergraduate',
departmentCode: 'BCEE',
departmentDescription: 'Building Civil & Environ Engineering',
facultyCode: 'ENCS',
facultyDescription: 'Gina Cody School of Engineering & Computer Science',
enrollmentCapacity: '14',
currentEnrollment: '14',
waitlistCapacity: '4',
currentWaitlistTotal: '-1',
hasSeatReserved: ''
}

Additionally, the currentEnrollment is sometimes -1, why is that?

{
courseID: '040862',
termCode: '2152',
session: '13W',
subject: 'FTRA',
catalog: '531',
section: 'AA',
componentCode: 'LEC',
componentDescription: 'Lecture',
classNumber: '3373',
classAssociation: '1',
courseTitle: 'INITIA TRADUCTION G?N?RALE',
topicID: '',
topicDescription: '',
classStatus: 'Active',
locationCode: 'SGW',
instructionModeCode: 'P',
instructionModeDescription: 'In Person',
meetingPatternNumber: '1',
roomCode: 'H429',
buildingCode: 'H',
room: '429',
classStartTime: '18.00.00',
classEndTime: '20.15.00',
modays: 'N',
tuesdays: 'N',
wednesdays: 'Y',
thursdays: 'N',
fridays: 'N',
saturdays: 'N',
sundays: 'N',
classStartDate: '08/09/2015',
classEndDate: '07/12/2015',
career: 'Undergraduate',
departmentCode: 'ETUDFRANC',
departmentDescription: 'Etudes Francaises',
facultyCode: 'AS',
facultyDescription: 'Faculty of Arts & Science',
enrollmentCapacity: '15',
currentEnrollment: '-1',
waitlistCapacity: '10',
currentWaitlistTotal: '0',
hasSeatReserved: 'Y'
}

opendataConcordiaU commented 1 year ago

I will relay these questions to the data owners to see if if the know what is this about. Maybe they'll have an explanation or a fix for it.

volovikariel commented 1 year ago

@opendataConcordiaU Any update? Just checking in~

lib-development-concordiaU commented 1 year ago

I'm sorry ... I haven't heard back from the team in charge of this. I will ask again

volovikariel commented 5 months ago

Any updates? ><

opendataConcordiaU commented 5 months ago

ohh .. the last new message that I got was that the enrolment issue was resolved. I assumed this was fine. Is still a happening ?

volovikariel commented 5 months ago

Point 4 and 5 seem to be resolved - thank you :partying_face: Points 1, 2 and 3 points are still present

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