9.2.27. Get Group By Name

Get a group object by name

9.2.27.1. 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"
}

9.2.27.2. 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": "1-661-9d69683f0e73ffae7f3f3aa8629535e4b9f919faab0599c9460046ceac66c8b6bcb2b92a9dc3b9410329084d0b5d330853ddf671006f7c08684479ab43f61879"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "20905",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

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

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{
  "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": "1-661-9d69683f0e73ffae7f3f3aa8629535e4b9f919faab0599c9460046ceac66c8b6bcb2b92a9dc3b9410329084d0b5d330853ddf671006f7c08684479ab43f61879"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "940",
  "content-type": "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
}

Footnotes

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