9.1.13. Create Group From JSON¶

Get a group object, add ‘ API TEST’ to the name of the group object, delete any pre-existing group with the new name, then create a new group object with the new name

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

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/auth
HTTP Method: GET
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.015730
Step 1 Request Body
Step 1 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "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=="
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "109",
  "content-type": "text/plain; charset=us-ascii",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:33 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=100",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "vary": "Accept-Encoding",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

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

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/info.json
HTTP Method: GET
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.001238
Step 2 Request Body
Step 2 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1583-e1a3113be152a3f6a70a136f464f9a9d32b41f7923f1ca136dd92f402a60776e0310f7cc9c995c8b11d65a4380bd4bf5a099eb207ff31cad0ebeb6b44f85fcbd"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-length": "207",
  "content-type": "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:33 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=99",
  "server": "Apache",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

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

URL: https://172.16.31.128:444/info.json
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.017017
Step 3 Request Body
Step 3 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "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": "25-1583-e1a3113be152a3f6a70a136f464f9a9d32b41f7923f1ca136dd92f402a60776e0310f7cc9c995c8b11d65a4380bd4bf5a099eb207ff31cad0ebeb6b44f85fcbd"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "content-length": "10255",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

9.1.13.4. Step 4 - Issue a GetObject to find an object¶

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.004637
Step 4 Request Body
Step 4 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "517",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1583-e1a3113be152a3f6a70a136f464f9a9d32b41f7923f1ca136dd92f402a60776e0310f7cc9c995c8b11d65a4380bd4bf5a099eb207ff31cad0ebeb6b44f85fcbd"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "494",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:33 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=98",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "vary": "Accept-Encoding",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.13.5. Step 5 - Issue a GetObject to find the object to be deleted¶

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.003931
Step 5 Request Body
Step 5 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "526",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1583-e1a3113be152a3f6a70a136f464f9a9d32b41f7923f1ca136dd92f402a60776e0310f7cc9c995c8b11d65a4380bd4bf5a099eb207ff31cad0ebeb6b44f85fcbd"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "502",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:33 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=97",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "vary": "Accept-Encoding",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.13.6. Step 6 - Issue a DeleteObject to delete an object¶

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.103461
Step 6 Request Body
Step 6 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "583",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1583-e1a3113be152a3f6a70a136f464f9a9d32b41f7923f1ca136dd92f402a60776e0310f7cc9c995c8b11d65a4380bd4bf5a099eb207ff31cad0ebeb6b44f85fcbd"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "498",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:33 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=96",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "vary": "Accept-Encoding",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.13.7. Step 7 - Issue an AddObject to add an object¶

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.007811
Step 7 Request Body
Step 7 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "622",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1583-e1a3113be152a3f6a70a136f464f9a9d32b41f7923f1ca136dd92f402a60776e0310f7cc9c995c8b11d65a4380bd4bf5a099eb207ff31cad0ebeb6b44f85fcbd"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "508",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:33 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=95",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "vary": "Accept-Encoding",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.13.8. Step 8 - Issue a GetObject on the recently added object in order to get the full object¶

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.301418
Step 8 Request Body
Step 8 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "486",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1583-e1a3113be152a3f6a70a136f464f9a9d32b41f7923f1ca136dd92f402a60776e0310f7cc9c995c8b11d65a4380bd4bf5a099eb207ff31cad0ebeb6b44f85fcbd"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "498",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:33 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=94",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "vary": "Accept-Encoding",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

Footnotes

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