📅 2024-12-03 — Session: Explored and Analyzed REDATAM Database and Backend
🕒 11:20–11:55
🏷️ Labels: REDATAM, Database, Automation, API, Error Handling
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session focused on exploring and analyzing the REDATAM database frontend and backend to understand its system, experiment with queries, and automate data extraction.
Key Activities
- Explored the REDATAM database frontend, understanding its system and experimenting with queries.
- Analyzed REDATAM backend scripts, focusing on error handling and potential improvements.
- Investigated AJAX and API interactions within the REDATAM system, including POST requests and JavaScript analysis.
- Explored backend details such as server information, AJAX interactions, and session management.
- Estimated naming conventions for REDATAM 2022 variables and adapted URL patterns.
- Conducted error analysis and correction for REDATAM scripts, focusing on illegal or misspelled entity names.
- Adapted queries for housing data analysis and explored data schema.
- Troubleshot AREALIST clause errors and HTTP 200 response issues.
Achievements
- Gained insights into the REDATAM system’s frontend and backend.
- Identified and corrected errors in scripts and queries.
- Developed strategies for data access and alternative approaches when direct access is restricted.
Pending Tasks
- Further exploration of API interactions and automation of data extraction processes.
- Continued refinement of query adaptation for housing data analysis.