Integration with DHIS 2

There are several ways of doing integration between DHIS 2 and other applications.

• Using the DHIS 2 API
• Data interchange: Exporting and importing to DHIS 2
• ETL-operations: Direct database access

We strongly recommend using the DHIS 2 API as this approach ensures data is consistent. The API also gives you access to extra functionality to make us of in your application.

Using the DHIS 2 API

The DHIS 2 API offers a programmatic way to access data from the application. In order to use the API, you're application either needs to be implemented in Java or know how to access Java bytecode.

• How to define a Maven dependency to DHIS 2
• How to load DHIS 2 beans
• How to call services

Data interchange: Exporting and importing to DHIS 2

• Overview of I/E capabilities
• Documentation links
• Writing exporters/importers

ETL-operations: Direct database access

It is possible to do ETL, Extract-Transform-Load operations to and from our database, or to simply create an application that runs on top of a DHIS 2 database. In the our Database API document you'll find a list with descriptions of tables and columns generated by DHIS 2.

• Identifying your DHIS 2 db
• Create JDBC connection
• Connections in other frameworks/programming languages