REST API - Test Output With Situations

[webm...@rideschedules.com]

Hello,

Anyway to get sample responses that include situations in vehicle locations or stop prediction requests?

I tried using the time parameter but the results exclude references.

I would like to validate code paths that handle situations, but so far I have been unable to locate response data to do so. 

Finally, can anyone say if situations are currently in use or planned?

[Cookie Guru]

> Finally, can anyone say if situations are currently in use or planned?

In Puget Sound, no. I can't speak for the other regions

[Sean Barbeau]

You should see active situations for a stop returned in the arrivals-and-departures-for-stop API method, as part of the tripStatus element, which is contained in the arrivalAndDeparture element:
http://developer.onebusaway.org/modules/onebusaway-application-modules/current/api/where/methods/arrivals-and-departures-for-stop.html
http://developer.onebusaway.org/modules/onebusaway-application-modules/current/api/where/elements/arrival-and-departure.html
http://developer.onebusaway.org/modules/onebusaway-application-modules/current/api/where/elements/trip-status.html

situations are used in the OBA Tampa deployment (http://tampa.onebusaway.org/), but only in case of emergencies, which aren't often.

I'd suggest mocking a response that includes the situation to test.  I thought we had one of these for a unit test in OBA Android, but just looking at our code apparently we don't.  But, I was able to grab a sample response from a test server that includes a situation, and I've opened an issue on OBA Android to include a test for this, and put the full text of the response (JSON) there:
https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-android/issues/214

So, hopefully that helps!

Sean