9.2.50. Ask Manual Question Simple Single Sensor No Results

Ask the question ‘Get Computer Name from all machines’ and do not get result data

9.2.50.1. 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"
}

9.2.50.2. 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": "1-684-f8a1caca6c34ae19ea2405b039bd86fd556ee894df2982412861f7718ee45439aa46439ae6f9a5555d340f75345ed0e734eb2741e84fe11c094c544c08b9ad78"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "20906",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

9.2.50.3. 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": "565",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-684-f8a1caca6c34ae19ea2405b039bd86fd556ee894df2982412861f7718ee45439aa46439ae6f9a5555d340f75345ed0e734eb2741e84fe11c094c544c08b9ad78"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.50.4. Step 4 - Issue an AddObject to add a Question object

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "639",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-684-f8a1caca6c34ae19ea2405b039bd86fd556ee894df2982412861f7718ee45439aa46439ae6f9a5555d340f75345ed0e734eb2741e84fe11c094c544c08b9ad78"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "766",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

9.2.50.5. 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": "1-684-f8a1caca6c34ae19ea2405b039bd86fd556ee894df2982412861f7718ee45439aa46439ae6f9a5555d340f75345ed0e734eb2741e84fe11c094c544c08b9ad78"
}
  • 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