9.2.11. Create Question From JSON

Get a question object, then create a new object from that (aka re-ask a question)

9.2.11.1. 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"
}

9.2.11.2. 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": "1-617-7b399a9919f1e20d7e1adae0efad9bea67861ce4cba879745ef64a7a3bc9457e6b7a9a5951d16ca11444c153266296760be6418bd51cd8857b2aea77c51885a7"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "19291",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

9.2.11.3. Step 3 - Issue a GetObject to find an object

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "490",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-617-7b399a9919f1e20d7e1adae0efad9bea67861ce4cba879745ef64a7a3bc9457e6b7a9a5951d16ca11444c153266296760be6418bd51cd8857b2aea77c51885a7"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-encoding": "gzip",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8",
  "transfer-encoding": "chunked"
}

9.2.11.4. Step 4 - Issue an AddObject to add an object

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "2146",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-617-7b399a9919f1e20d7e1adae0efad9bea67861ce4cba879745ef64a7a3bc9457e6b7a9a5951d16ca11444c153266296760be6418bd51cd8857b2aea77c51885a7"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "766",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

9.2.11.5. 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": "1-617-7b399a9919f1e20d7e1adae0efad9bea67861ce4cba879745ef64a7a3bc9457e6b7a9a5951d16ca11444c153266296760be6418bd51cd8857b2aea77c51885a7"
}
  • 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