Dell PowerStore 9000T EMC PowerStore REST API Developers Guide - Page 24

Headers Accept: application/json Authorization: Operation GET URI pattern /api/rest// Body where: • is the resource type of the desired instance. • is the unique identifier of the desired instance. For additional functionality, such as returning specific attributes, you can append one or more request parameters to the URI. Empty. If the request succeeds, the server returns a 200 OK HTTP status code and an instance resource in the response body. If the request does not succeed, the server returns a 4xx or 5xx HTTP status code and a message entity in the response body. By default, the response to a GET instance request includes only the unique identifier (id attribute) of the specified resource instance. You can use the following request parameters to customize what data is returned: Request parameter select Description Requests data for a specified set of attributes. Example The following request returns the values for the id, name, and serial_number attributes for the appliance resource instance that has an id of J8WRPD2. Header Accept: application/json Request GET https://1.2.3.4/api/rest/appliance/J8WRPD2?select=id,name,service_tag Response body { "id": "J8WRPD2", "name": "H2025-appliance-1", "service_tag": "J8WRPD2" } Specifying the attributes to return in a query response Use the select request parameter in a collection query to specify the set of attributes to return in a response. If you do not use this parameter, a query will return the id attribute only. When you use the select request parameter, you can refer to attributes in a related resource type, as described in the Syntax section below. Syntax As the first parameter on the request URI: ?select=,,... As a subsequent parameter on the request URI: &select=,,... where the attributes whose values you want to retrieve are listed in a comma-separated list. 24 Querying a resource