Metadata with REST API

This section explains the REST operations for getting metadata for resources or collections that have been secured with Basic Auth.

Query parameters

The path query parameter refers to the path of the resource or collection.

For details on security (the authorization header) and the URI syntax (port, context, etc.), see Registry REST API.

Get the metadata of the resource

Attributes	values
HTTP Method	GET
Request URI	/metadata?path={ resource path }
HTTP Request Header	Authorization: Basic { base64encoded(username:password) }
Description	Contains the description, media type, last modified time, author's user name, last modified person's username, created time.
Response	HTTP 200 OK
Response Type	application/json

Sample request

curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=" -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" "https://localhost:9443/resource/1.0.0/metadata?path=/_system/governance/trunk/soapservices/com/amazon/soap/1.0.0/AmazonSearchService" -i -k

Get the metadata of the collection

Attributes	Values
HTTP Method	GET
Request URI	/metadata?path={ collection path }
HTTP Reuqest Header	Authorization: Basic { base64encoded(username:password) }
Description	Contains the description, media type, last modified time, author's user name, last modified person's username, created time
Response	HTTP 200 OK
Response Type	application/json

Sample request

curl -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic YWRtaW46YWRtaW4=" -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" "https://localhost:9443/resource/1.0.0/metadata?path=/_system/governance/trunk/soapservices/com/amazon/soap/1.0.0/" -i -k