Questions on open API's

[priju paul]

Hi Folks,

I came across the OpenAustralia community and its open webservice API's. Infact, Henare, connected me here to this group.

I have a few questions after trying out the open API's. This is mainly for an Android app.

1. I see only API's to get comments. Can a user post comment using some API ?

2. When trying to fetch the details or representatives or senators. the office field's to_date is invalid. It gives me a year with 9999 . i.e

 "to_date" : "9999-12-31",

Does this mean, the candidate is still serving the position?

But in this example.

{
  "moffice_id" : "45856",
  "dept" : "",
  "position" : "Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations",
  "from_date" : "2011-03-03",
  "to_date" : "9999-12-31",
  "person" : "10003",
  "source" : ""
},
{
  "moffice_id" : "45741",
  "dept" : "",
  "position" : "Leader of the Opposition in the Senate",
  "from_date" : "2010-05-03",
  "to_date" : "9999-12-31",
  "person" : "10003",
  "source" : ""
},
{
  "moffice_id" : "45700",
  "dept" : "",
  "position" : "Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations",
  "from_date" : "2009-12-08",
  "to_date" : "9999-12-31",
  "person" : "10003",
  "source" : ""
}]

The details for the position "Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations", to_date is 9999-12-31 eventough they have two different from_dates. 

Shouldn't the last JSON field have a proper to_date field?

3. Could someone enlighten me about the date format to be followed in getDivisions api.

All the time, it returns an empty array eventough I tried a few date formats.

Thanks for your time.

Br,
Priju