9.1.10. Create Sensor From JSON¶

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

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

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/auth
HTTP Method: GET
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.016068
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": "110",
  "content-type": "text/plain; charset=us-ascii",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:31 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=100",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "vary": "Accept-Encoding",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

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

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/info.json
HTTP Method: GET
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.001358
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": "25-1580-345d6c9cdb2f1c246eb306037b8c67c3c196bdb877f00c79e811bed0c3d8bad7bbf55c64f6ae417b29b989aa53ead243029d1167d515c64c7aa5a6b41cad1fd8"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-length": "207",
  "content-type": "text/html; charset=iso-8859-1",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:31 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=99",
  "server": "Apache",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

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

URL: https://172.16.31.128:444/info.json
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.037185
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": "25-1580-345d6c9cdb2f1c246eb306037b8c67c3c196bdb877f00c79e811bed0c3d8bad7bbf55c64f6ae417b29b989aa53ead243029d1167d515c64c7aa5a6b41cad1fd8"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "content-length": "10256",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

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

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.004745
Step 4 Request Body
Step 4 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "507",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1580-345d6c9cdb2f1c246eb306037b8c67c3c196bdb877f00c79e811bed0c3d8bad7bbf55c64f6ae417b29b989aa53ead243029d1167d515c64c7aa5a6b41cad1fd8"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "5225",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:31 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=98",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.10.5. 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: 0:00:00.004188
Step 5 Request Body
Step 5 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "552",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1580-345d6c9cdb2f1c246eb306037b8c67c3c196bdb877f00c79e811bed0c3d8bad7bbf55c64f6ae417b29b989aa53ead243029d1167d515c64c7aa5a6b41cad1fd8"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "5239",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:31 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=97",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

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

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.011161
Step 6 Request Body
Step 6 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "16013",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1580-345d6c9cdb2f1c246eb306037b8c67c3c196bdb877f00c79e811bed0c3d8bad7bbf55c64f6ae417b29b989aa53ead243029d1167d515c64c7aa5a6b41cad1fd8"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "5228",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:31 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=96",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

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

URL: https://172.16.31.128:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.097855
Step 7 Request Body
Step 7 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "16026",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1580-345d6c9cdb2f1c246eb306037b8c67c3c196bdb877f00c79e811bed0c3d8bad7bbf55c64f6ae417b29b989aa53ead243029d1167d515c64c7aa5a6b41cad1fd8"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "5221",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:31 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=95",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

9.1.10.8. 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: 0:00:00.106906
Step 8 Request Body
Step 8 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "488",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "25-1580-345d6c9cdb2f1c246eb306037b8c67c3c196bdb877f00c79e811bed0c3d8bad7bbf55c64f6ae417b29b989aa53ead243029d1167d515c64c7aa5a6b41cad1fd8"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "Keep-Alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-length": "5233",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "date": "Sat, 05 Sep 2015 05:19:31 GMT",
  "keep-alive": "timeout=5, max=94",
  "server": "Apache",
  "strict-transport-security": "max-age=15768000",
  "x-frame-options": "SAMEORIGIN"
}

Footnotes

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