Folder API
Folders can be accessed through this API using the GET service.
Authentication - Use Basic Authentication for this API.
GET
There are two implementations of GET. One will find a Folder with the given Id and return the JSON representation of the Folder. The other will find a list of Folders matching the parameters supplied to it.
GET (Using Id)
This GET service will find a Folder by Id and return a JSON representation of it.
API URLs
http://host:port/flexdeploy/rest/v1/folder/{id}
Request
Parameter | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
id | Yes | URL | This is a URL path parameter for the id which is used to find a folder. |
Response
| Attributes | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| folderName | String | This is the name of the folder. |
| folderId | String | This is the type of the folder. |
| parentFolderId | Long | This is the Id of the parent folder of this folder. |
| description | String | This is a description of this folder. |
| isActive | Boolean | This Boolean indicates whether or not this folder is marked as active. |
| subFolders | List<Long> | This List contains the Id's of the active Folders in this Folder. |
| applications | List<Long> | This List contains the Id's of the active Applications in this Folder. |
Response Codes
HTTP Code | Description |
|---|---|
200 | Folder found and returned |
400 | Bad request |
401 | Authentication failure |
403 | Authorization failure (no access to resource) |
404 | Folder not found |
500 | Unexpected internal server error |
Example
If we had a Folder in our database with the name '' with the following attributes:
Folder - "Folder1"
{
"folderId": 12709,
"parentFolderId": 99,
"folderName": "Folder1",
"isActive": true,
"subFolders": [
12343,
15467,
90234
],
"applications": [],
"description": "This is a folder"
}
When we run a GET request at the following URL:
http://{host:port}/flexdeploy/rest/v1/folder/12709
The GET request would return the following JSON Folder object
GET JSON Response
{
"folderId": 12709,
"parentFolderId": 99,
"folderName": "Folder1",
"isActive": true,
"subFolders": [
12343,
15467,
90234
],
"applications": [],
"description": "This is a folder"
}
Get(Using Query Parameters)
This GET service will find a folder by querying based on a folder name and return the JSON representations of the objects satisfying the query. If no query parameters are given this request will return the entire list of folders.
API URLs
http://host:port/flexdeploy/rest/v1/folder?
Append the following character sequences to the above URL to specify Query parameters.
Use '&' between successive query parameters:
folderName={name}
Examples:
To search by name only:
http://host:port/flexdeploy/rest/v1/folder?folderName={name}
To search for all Folders:
http://host:port/flexdeploy/rest/v1/folder
The query parameters are not case sensitive. Searching by folderName=NAME is the same as searching by folderName=name.
Request
Parameter | Required | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
folderName | No | Query - String | This is a URL query parameter for the name which is used to query Folders with. Contains ignore case search for folder name. Application is special type of folder, but this API will only return folders that are not applications. |
Response
| Attributes | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| folderName | String | This is the name of the folder. |
| folderId | String | This is the type of the folder. |
| parentFolderId | Long | This is the Id of the parent folder of this folder. |
| description | String | This is a description of this folder. |
| isActive | Boolean | This Boolean indicates whether or not this folder is marked as active. |
| subFolders | List<Long> | This List contains the Id's of the active Folders in this Folder. |
| applications | List<Long> | This List contains the Id's of the active Applications in this Folder. |
Response Codes
HTTP Code | Description |
|---|---|
200 | Search successful and results returned |
400 | Bad request |
401 | Authentication failure |
403 | Authorization failure (no access to resource) |
500 | Unexpected internal server error |
Example
If we had Folders in our database with the names 'Folder1' and 'Folder2' and the following attributes:
Folder - "Folder1"
{
"folderId": 12709,
"parentFolderId": 99,
"folderName": "Folder1",
"isActive": true,
"subFolders": [
12343,
15467,
90234
],
"applications": [],
"description": "This is a folder"
}
Folder - "Folder2"
{
"folderId": 15467,
"parentFolderId": 12709,
"folderName": "Folder2",
"isActive": true,
"subFolders": [
12991
],
"applications": [
43271
],
"description": "This is another folder"
}When we run a GET request at the following URL
http://host:port/flexdeploy/rest/v1/folder?folderName=Folder1
The GET request would return the following JSON workflow object
Search By folderName=folder1
[
{
"folderId": 12709,
"parentFolderId": 99,
"folderName": "Folder1",
"isActive": true,
"subFolders": [
12343,
15467,
90234
],
"applications": [],
"description": "This is a folder"
}
]