Discovery endpoints help to retrieve all the possible values of specific variables within EcoPlots (such as datasources, regions, parameters, FOI, etc). You can easily find the desired values to be used in your queries.
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Discovery endpoints differ from data endpoints because BLAH BLAH BLAHthey will only return a set of possible values to be used in any kind of variable or facet in the query, rather than returning actual data. The returns from these endpoints will yield the possible values that can be queried. For instance, if the dataset discovery endpoint is queried, it will show that there are a number of datasets that can then be queried further: TERN surveillance, TERN EP, ausplots forest, BDBSA.
Knowing these values, user can create the search queries (e.g. give me all observation from X dataset, where X is one of the values returned by the discover endpoint).
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This example Discovery request gets a list of all the filters that can be applied to further specify the desired criteria within a "feature_type" request. To request a value other than "feature_type", replace .../discover/feature_type with whatever value is of interest (ie. .../discover/region).
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to only retrieve soil information.
Expand to include a cURL request example that includes the filter discussed above.