9.2.33. Get Sensor By Name

Get a sensor object by name

9.2.33.1. 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"
}

9.2.33.2. 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": "1-667-fd0ee3ee389d3df522a35d644decbf147cc3fccc6706213ebe7db6f86243ec2debb89e5bce9cf158daabdbc1a59271975e55918146814c633164f4abe64d6715"
}
  • Response Headers:
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{
  "connection": "keep-alive",
  "content-length": "20905",
  "content-type": "application/json"
}

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

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{
  "Accept": "*/*",
  "Accept-Encoding": "gzip",
  "Connection": "keep-alive",
  "Content-Length": "521",
  "Content-Type": "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
  "User-Agent": "python-requests/2.7.0 CPython/2.7.10 Darwin/14.5.0",
  "session": "1-667-fd0ee3ee389d3df522a35d644decbf147cc3fccc6706213ebe7db6f86243ec2debb89e5bce9cf158daabdbc1a59271975e55918146814c633164f4abe64d6715"
}
  • 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