9.1.56. Ask Manual Question Sensor With Filter

Ask the question ‘Get Operating System containing “Windows” from all machines’, then wait for result data to be complete, and get result data

9.1.56.1. Step 1 - Authenticate to the SOAP API via /auth

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "password": "VGFuaXVtMjAxNSE=",
  "username": "QWRtaW5pc3RyYXRvcg=="
}
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{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "111",
  "content-type": "text/plain; charset=us-ascii",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:44:27 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=100",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "vary": "Accept-Encoding",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.56.2. Step 2 - Get the server version via /info.json

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1656-57741f70782af807aea8725a29cda52d777bf9f48d80d06b1705dc80587d960075c461a2f2d3be9e23092bbf13ee21042d6fcc460c1f2798fc256cce34d2cc7d"
}
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{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-length": "207",
  "content-type": "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:44:27 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=99",
  "server": "Apache",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.56.3. Step 3 - Get the server version via /info.json

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "0",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1656-57741f70782af807aea8725a29cda52d777bf9f48d80d06b1705dc80587d960075c461a2f2d3be9e23092bbf13ee21042d6fcc460c1f2798fc256cce34d2cc7d"
}
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{
  "content-length": "11300",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

9.1.56.4. Step 4 - Issue a GetObject to get the full object of a sensor for inclusion in a Select for a Question

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "568",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1656-57741f70782af807aea8725a29cda52d777bf9f48d80d06b1705dc80587d960075c461a2f2d3be9e23092bbf13ee21042d6fcc460c1f2798fc256cce34d2cc7d"
}
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{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "2162",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:44:27 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=98",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.56.5. Step 5 - Issue an AddObject to add a Question object

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "714",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1656-57741f70782af807aea8725a29cda52d777bf9f48d80d06b1705dc80587d960075c461a2f2d3be9e23092bbf13ee21042d6fcc460c1f2798fc256cce34d2cc7d"
}
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{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "542",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:44:27 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=97",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "vary": "Accept-Encoding",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.56.6. Step 6 - Issue a GetObject on the recently added object in order to get the full object

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "493",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1656-57741f70782af807aea8725a29cda52d777bf9f48d80d06b1705dc80587d960075c461a2f2d3be9e23092bbf13ee21042d6fcc460c1f2798fc256cce34d2cc7d"
}
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{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "2607",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:44:27 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=96",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.56.7. Step 7 - Issue a GetResultInfo for a Question to check the current progress of answers

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "497",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1656-57741f70782af807aea8725a29cda52d777bf9f48d80d06b1705dc80587d960075c461a2f2d3be9e23092bbf13ee21042d6fcc460c1f2798fc256cce34d2cc7d"
}
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{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "705",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:44:27 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=95",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.56.8. Step 8 - Issue a GetResultInfo for a Question to check the current progress of answers

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "497",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1656-57741f70782af807aea8725a29cda52d777bf9f48d80d06b1705dc80587d960075c461a2f2d3be9e23092bbf13ee21042d6fcc460c1f2798fc256cce34d2cc7d"
}
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{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "719",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:44:32 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=94",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.56.9. Step 9 - Issue a GetResultInfo for a Question to check the current progress of answers

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "497",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1656-57741f70782af807aea8725a29cda52d777bf9f48d80d06b1705dc80587d960075c461a2f2d3be9e23092bbf13ee21042d6fcc460c1f2798fc256cce34d2cc7d"
}
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{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "722",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:44:37 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=93",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.56.10. Step 10 - Issue a GetResultData to get answers for a question

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "525",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1656-57741f70782af807aea8725a29cda52d777bf9f48d80d06b1705dc80587d960075c461a2f2d3be9e23092bbf13ee21042d6fcc460c1f2798fc256cce34d2cc7d"
}
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{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "853",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:44:37 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=92",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

Footnotes

[1]this file automatically created by BUILD/build_api_examples.py