9.2.4. Create Group

Create a group called All Windows Computers API Test

9.2.4.1. 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"
}

9.2.4.2. 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": "1-610-e8f4a6a0cf03d4e5aa660f9155b4f55bc8990fa8a6cb966aa8866a0eb8733ace37327eaaf3cedd30901348c3855ce451c5ea925474cc42d1c8b69409d5dc12eb"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "19289",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

9.2.4.3. Step 3 - Issue a GetObject to find the object to be deleted

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "534",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-610-e8f4a6a0cf03d4e5aa660f9155b4f55bc8990fa8a6cb966aa8866a0eb8733ace37327eaaf3cedd30901348c3855ce451c5ea925474cc42d1c8b69409d5dc12eb"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "664",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

9.2.4.4. Step 4 - Issue a GetObject to get the full object of specified sensors for inclusion in a group

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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": "1-610-e8f4a6a0cf03d4e5aa660f9155b4f55bc8990fa8a6cb966aa8866a0eb8733ace37327eaaf3cedd30901348c3855ce451c5ea925474cc42d1c8b69409d5dc12eb"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.4.5. Step 5 - Issue an AddObject to add a Group object

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "692",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-610-e8f4a6a0cf03d4e5aa660f9155b4f55bc8990fa8a6cb966aa8866a0eb8733ace37327eaaf3cedd30901348c3855ce451c5ea925474cc42d1c8b69409d5dc12eb"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "760",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

9.2.4.6. 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": "486",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-610-e8f4a6a0cf03d4e5aa660f9155b4f55bc8990fa8a6cb966aa8866a0eb8733ace37327eaaf3cedd30901348c3855ce451c5ea925474cc42d1c8b69409d5dc12eb"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.4.7. Step 7 - Issue a GetObject to find the object to be deleted

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "534",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-610-e8f4a6a0cf03d4e5aa660f9155b4f55bc8990fa8a6cb966aa8866a0eb8733ace37327eaaf3cedd30901348c3855ce451c5ea925474cc42d1c8b69409d5dc12eb"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.4.8. Step 8 - Issue a DeleteObject to delete an object

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "1127",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-610-e8f4a6a0cf03d4e5aa660f9155b4f55bc8990fa8a6cb966aa8866a0eb8733ace37327eaaf3cedd30901348c3855ce451c5ea925474cc42d1c8b69409d5dc12eb"
}
  • 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