9.2.58. 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

9.2.58.1. 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=="
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "134",
  "content-type": "text/plain; charset=us-ascii"
}

9.2.58.2. 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": "1-694-22928c0af0fc1d91eed7dc4424a21a38b53a000acce5dbe534e2d43494597b3e70067b61e5affe712febd395fe71e889bc3a031a856031942d7fb5d6b087894e"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "21310",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

9.2.58.3. Step 3 - 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": "1-694-22928c0af0fc1d91eed7dc4424a21a38b53a000acce5dbe534e2d43494597b3e70067b61e5affe712febd395fe71e889bc3a031a856031942d7fb5d6b087894e"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.58.4. Step 4 - 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": "1-694-22928c0af0fc1d91eed7dc4424a21a38b53a000acce5dbe534e2d43494597b3e70067b61e5affe712febd395fe71e889bc3a031a856031942d7fb5d6b087894e"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "766",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

9.2.58.5. Step 5 - 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": "492",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-694-22928c0af0fc1d91eed7dc4424a21a38b53a000acce5dbe534e2d43494597b3e70067b61e5affe712febd395fe71e889bc3a031a856031942d7fb5d6b087894e"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.58.6. Step 6 - 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": "496",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-694-22928c0af0fc1d91eed7dc4424a21a38b53a000acce5dbe534e2d43494597b3e70067b61e5affe712febd395fe71e889bc3a031a856031942d7fb5d6b087894e"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.58.7. 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": "496",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-694-22928c0af0fc1d91eed7dc4424a21a38b53a000acce5dbe534e2d43494597b3e70067b61e5affe712febd395fe71e889bc3a031a856031942d7fb5d6b087894e"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.58.8. Step 8 - Issue a GetResultData to get answers for a question

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "524",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-694-22928c0af0fc1d91eed7dc4424a21a38b53a000acce5dbe534e2d43494597b3e70067b61e5affe712febd395fe71e889bc3a031a856031942d7fb5d6b087894e"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

Footnotes

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