Reference Guide - Melissa Data

Request Details
Personator
Request Details
A Request consists of the use of a protocol to make a call to the Web Service, detailing desired
elements. The minimum required elements in a Request are your Customer ID and at least one record.
The Personator Web Service supports multiple protocols to access the Web Service, including SOAP,
REST, XML, and JSON.
Each Request in the Personator Web Service has three main elements: Actions; Options; and Columns.
Actions
Actions are delimited with a “,” or “;”.
The Personator Web Service currently supports four possible actions:
Check
The Check action will validate the individual input data pieces for validity and correct them if possible.
If the data is correctable, additional information will often be appended as well. US and Canada only.
Verify
The Verify action will return to you the relationships between your different input data pieces. It can
show you if your name, address, email, and phone number are correlated (belonging to the same person)
or not. US only.
Move
The Move action will return the latest address for an individual or business if a previous address was
entered. Move requires either a Last Name and Address, or a Business/Company Name and Address as
inputs. US only.
Move also returns results codes that help identify which addresses were updated with a move.
Append
The Append action will return elements based on the selected point of centricity which can either be
the address, email or phone. For example, an address centric Append will return the name, company,
phone and email associated with the given address. US only.
Append also returns result codes which help you identify which elements were appended.
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