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Validate location and get areas

GET
/v1/location/{userId}/{location}
Parameters
string


api token is required field
string


userId is required field
string

city, state(reston, va) or county, state(fairfax county, va) or state (VA) or zipcode (20191) or US for national data

location is required field
boolean

ex: true or false

  TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Example Code

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Linq;

namespace CareerOneStopAPISample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            CreateRequest().Wait();
        }
        private static async Task CreateRequest()
        {
            var qs = new NameValueCollection();
            qs["enableMetaData"] = "value";                        
            
            var uri = new UriBuilder(Uri.UriSchemeHttps, "api.careeronestop.org")
            {
                Path = "/v1/location/{userId}/{location}",
                Query = string.Join("&", qs.AllKeys.Select(key => key + "=" + Uri.EscapeUriString(qs[key])))
            };
            
            using (var http = new HttpClient())
            {
                http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
                http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", "API Token");
                http.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
                var response = await http.GetAsync(uri.Uri).ConfigureAwait(false);
                if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
                {
                    var result = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().ConfigureAwait(false);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class CareerOneStopAPISample {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
	URI uri = new URIBuilder()
		.setScheme("https")
		.setHost("api.careeronestop.org")
		.setPath("/v1/location/{userId}/{location}")
                .setParameter("enableMetaData", "value")
		.build();
	CloseableHttpResponse response = null;
	HttpGet httpGet = null;
	try {
		CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
		httpGet = new HttpGet(uri);
		httpGet.setHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
		httpGet.setHeader("Authorization", "Bearer API Token");
		response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
		HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
		System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
	} finally {
		if(httpGet != null) httpGet.releaseConnection();
		if(response != null) response.close();
	}
   }
}


Response Structure 
                        {
  "State": "string",
  "StateAbbreviation": "string",
  "STFIPS": "string",
  "Type": "string",
  "PrimaryArea": "string",
  "InputLocation": "string",
  "Counties": [
    {
      "AreaType": "string",
      "Area": "string",
      "AreaName": "string",
      "CountyFIPS": "string"
    }
  ],
  "MetroAndNonmetroAreas": [
    {
      "AreaType": "string",
      "Area": "string",
      "AreaName": "string",
      "CountyFIPS": "string"
    }
  ],
  "MetaData": {
    "Publisher": "string",
    "Sponsor": "string",
    "LastAccessDate": 3,
    "CitationSuggested": "string",
    "DataSource": [
      {
        "DataName": "string",
        "DataSourceName": "string",
        "DataSourceUrl": "string",
        "DataLastUpdate": "string",
        "DataVintageOrVersion": "string",
        "DataDescription": "string",
        "DataSourceCitation": "string"
      }
    ]
  }
}
                    
                        <Location xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/XPAND.CareerOneStop.WebApi.ViewModels">
  <Counties>
    <AreaInfo>
      <Area>string</Area>
      <AreaName>string</AreaName>
      <AreaType>string</AreaType>
      <CountyFIPS>string</CountyFIPS>
    </AreaInfo>
  </Counties>
  <InputLocation>string</InputLocation>
  <MetaData xmlns:d2p1="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/XPAND.CareerOneStop.WebApi.Core.MetaData">
    <d2p1:CitationSuggested>string</d2p1:CitationSuggested>
    <d2p1:DataSource>
      <d2p1:MetaDataSource>
        <d2p1:DataDescription>string</d2p1:DataDescription>
        <d2p1:DataLastUpdate>string</d2p1:DataLastUpdate>
        <d2p1:DataName>string</d2p1:DataName>
        <d2p1:DataSourceCitation>string</d2p1:DataSourceCitation>
        <d2p1:DataSourceName>string</d2p1:DataSourceName>
        <d2p1:DataSourceUrl>string</d2p1:DataSourceUrl>
        <d2p1:DataVintageOrVersion>string</d2p1:DataVintageOrVersion>
      </d2p1:MetaDataSource>
    </d2p1:DataSource>
    <d2p1:LastAccessDate>3</d2p1:LastAccessDate>
    <d2p1:Publisher>string</d2p1:Publisher>
    <d2p1:Sponsor>string</d2p1:Sponsor>
  </MetaData>
  <MetroAndNonmetroAreas>
    <AreaInfo>
      <Area>string</Area>
      <AreaName>string</AreaName>
      <AreaType>string</AreaType>
      <CountyFIPS>string</CountyFIPS>
    </AreaInfo>
  </MetroAndNonmetroAreas>
  <PrimaryArea>string</PrimaryArea>
  <STFIPS>string</STFIPS>
  <State>string</State>
  <StateAbbreviation>string</StateAbbreviation>
  <Type>string</Type>
</Location>