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Get Skills Gaps Between Two Occupations

GET
/v1/skillgap/{userId}/{onetCodeSource}/{onetCodeTarget}/{location}/{radius}
Parameters
string


api token is required field
string


userId is required field
string

ex: 29-1151.00

onetCodeSource is required field
string

ex: 29116100

onetCodeTarget is required field
string

city, state(reston, va) or state (VA) or zipcode (20191)

location is required field
string

ex: 25

radius is required field
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Example Code

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace CareerOneStopAPISample
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            CreateRequest().Wait();
        }
        private static async Task CreateRequest()
        {
    
            var uri = new UriBuilder(Uri.UriSchemeHttps, "api.careeronestop.org")
            {
                Path = "/v1/skillgap/{userId}/{onetCodeSource}/{onetCodeTarget}/{location}/{radius}"
            };
            
            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/skillgap/{userId}/{onetCodeSource}/{onetCodeTarget}/{location}/{radius}")
		.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 
                        {
  "OccupationSkillsGapList": [
    {
      "Title": "string",
      "Description": "string",
      "SkillId": "string",
      "SKScoreCurrent": "string",
      "SKScoreTarget": "string",
      "SkillType": "string",
      "AvailableTraining": true
    }
  ],
  "OccupationSkillsMatchList": [
    {
      "Title": "string",
      "Description": "string",
      "SkillId": "string"
    }
  ],
  "CurrentOccupationTitle": "string",
  "TargetOccupationTitle": "string",
  "CurrentOccupationCode": "string",
  "TargetOccupationCode": "string",
  "CurrentOccupationWage": "string",
  "TargetOccupationWage": "string",
  "CurrentEducationTitle": "string",
  "TargetEducationTitle": "string",
  "CurrentExperienceTitle": "string",
  "TargetExperienceTitle": "string",
  "CurrentTrainingTitle": "string",
  "TargetTrainingTitle": "string",
  "CurrentLicenses": 13,
  "TargetLicenses": 14,
  "CurrentCertificates": 15,
  "TargetCertificates": 16,
  "LocationState": "string"
}
                    
                        <OccupationSkillGapDetails xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/XPAND.CareerOneStop.WebApi.ViewModels">
  <CurrentCertificates>15</CurrentCertificates>
  <CurrentEducationTitle>string</CurrentEducationTitle>
  <CurrentExperienceTitle>string</CurrentExperienceTitle>
  <CurrentLicenses>13</CurrentLicenses>
  <CurrentOccupationCode>string</CurrentOccupationCode>
  <CurrentOccupationTitle>string</CurrentOccupationTitle>
  <CurrentOccupationWage>string</CurrentOccupationWage>
  <CurrentTrainingTitle>string</CurrentTrainingTitle>
  <LocationState>string</LocationState>
  <OccupationSkillsGapList>
    <OccupationSkillGap>
      <AvailableTraining>true</AvailableTraining>
      <Description>string</Description>
      <SKScoreCurrent>string</SKScoreCurrent>
      <SKScoreTarget>string</SKScoreTarget>
      <SkillId>string</SkillId>
      <SkillType>string</SkillType>
      <Title>string</Title>
    </OccupationSkillGap>
  </OccupationSkillsGapList>
  <OccupationSkillsMatchList>
    <OccupationSkill>
      <Description>string</Description>
      <SkillId>string</SkillId>
      <Title>string</Title>
    </OccupationSkill>
  </OccupationSkillsMatchList>
  <TargetCertificates>16</TargetCertificates>
  <TargetEducationTitle>string</TargetEducationTitle>
  <TargetExperienceTitle>string</TargetExperienceTitle>
  <TargetLicenses>14</TargetLicenses>
  <TargetOccupationCode>string</TargetOccupationCode>
  <TargetOccupationTitle>string</TargetOccupationTitle>
  <TargetOccupationWage>string</TargetOccupationWage>
  <TargetTrainingTitle>string</TargetTrainingTitle>
</OccupationSkillGapDetails>