9.2.13. 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

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

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/auth
HTTP Method: GET
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.063510
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-length": "134",
  "content-type": "text/plain; charset=us-ascii"
}

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

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/info.json
HTTP Method: GET
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.015372
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": "1-619-1abf7bb04651784ffcb76d9e03fa3e9f5c4a83b94fb07bfc2a9b5b2a04b82802cd320785f785a0247d0bb6ea51d78578d206c39cb3e23894e79babadb61f00e9"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "19291",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

9.2.13.3. Step 3 - Issue a GetObject to find an object¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.004840
Step 3 Request Body
Step 3 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": "1-619-1abf7bb04651784ffcb76d9e03fa3e9f5c4a83b94fb07bfc2a9b5b2a04b82802cd320785f785a0247d0bb6ea51d78578d206c39cb3e23894e79babadb61f00e9"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "940",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

9.2.13.4. Step 4 - Issue a GetObject to find the object to be deleted¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.226534
Step 4 Request Body
Step 4 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": "1-619-1abf7bb04651784ffcb76d9e03fa3e9f5c4a83b94fb07bfc2a9b5b2a04b82802cd320785f785a0247d0bb6ea51d78578d206c39cb3e23894e79babadb61f00e9"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "950",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

9.2.13.5. Step 5 - Issue a DeleteObject to delete an object¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.004718
Step 5 Request Body
Step 5 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "619",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-619-1abf7bb04651784ffcb76d9e03fa3e9f5c4a83b94fb07bfc2a9b5b2a04b82802cd320785f785a0247d0bb6ea51d78578d206c39cb3e23894e79babadb61f00e9"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "947",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

9.2.13.6. Step 6 - Issue an AddObject to add an object¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.037626
Step 6 Request Body
Step 6 Response Body
Request Headers:

{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "658",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-619-1abf7bb04651784ffcb76d9e03fa3e9f5c4a83b94fb07bfc2a9b5b2a04b82802cd320785f785a0247d0bb6ea51d78578d206c39cb3e23894e79babadb61f00e9"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "760",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

9.2.13.7. Step 7 - Issue a GetObject on the recently added object in order to get the full object¶

URL: https://10.0.1.240:443/soap
HTTP Method: POST
Elapsed Time: 0:00:00.011678
Step 7 Request Body
Step 7 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": "1-619-1abf7bb04651784ffcb76d9e03fa3e9f5c4a83b94fb07bfc2a9b5b2a04b82802cd320785f785a0247d0bb6ea51d78578d206c39cb3e23894e79babadb61f00e9"
}

Response Headers:

{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "932",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

Footnotes

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