Revision as of 08:53, 20 May 2013

This article describes operations for getting details of a server snapshot. Other types of operations on a server snapshot are: ServerSnapshotCreate, ServerSnapshotActions, etc.

GET /servers/server_id/snapshots/snapshot_id

This operation will return snapshot details of a single server.

Parameters

server_id

The unique identifier of the server.

snapshot_id

The unique identifier of the server snapshot to get

Result

JSON

{
    "snapshot": {
        "id": "{snapshot_id}", 
        "name": "{snapshot_name}"
        "description": "{description}", 
        "status": "{status}", 
        "guid": "{guid}", 
        "parent_guid": "{parent_guid}", 
        "relation_guid": "{relation_guid}", 
        "create_time": "{create_time}", 
        "links": [{"href": "http://{api_server}/servers/{server_id}/snapshots/{snapshot_id}/", 
                   "rel": "self"}], 
    }
}

id - string

Unique identifier for this server snapshot.

name - string

Display name of this server snapshot.

description - string

Description of this server snapshot.

guid - string

GUID of this server snapshot.

parent_guid - string

Parent GUID of this server snapshot.

relation_guid - string

Relation GUID of this server snapshot.

status - string

Status of this server snapshot; Values: 'ACTIVE', 'BUILD', 'DELETED'

create_time - string

Created time of this server snapshot

links - array

Hypermedia for this resource.

Response Codes

Success

OK (200)

Failure

-Unauthorized (401) : This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document you requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser does not understand how to supply the credentials required. -ItemNotFound (404) : The resource requested is not found.

Examples

Successfully get server details

GET http(s)://{api_server}/servers/snapshots/snapshot_jello614636-USOTE-0214_2012Jul19_m5yf9Bz8a

- Request Headers:

   Content-Type:application/json
   Charset=UTF-8
   Authorization:Base64-encoded username & password string

- Response: OK (200):

{
    "snapshot": {
        "id": "snapshot_jello614636-USOTE-0214_2012Jul19_m5yf9Bz8a", 
        "name": "fitnesse snapshot"}
        "description": "fitnesse test snapshot", 
        "status": "ACTIVE", 
        "guid": "a4e76fdf-8696-4848-ba81-cfe090e1401d", 
        "parent_guid": "491aee4b-34bc-45e5-ac47-7ef9fb96c4c4", 
        "relation_guid": "42130087-f34c-4823-885d-8a908017ed8d", 
        "create_time": "2012-07-19 16:28:09", 
        "links": [{"href": "http://{api_server}/servers/jello614636-USOTE-0214/snapshots/snapshot_jello614636-USOTE-0214_2012Jul19_m5yf9Bz8a/", "rel": "self"}], 
}

• When a server is in pending status (has not completed the provisioning process), the creation timestamp and hostId that are returned will be empty strings.

Failure while trying to get server details without proper authorization - Response: Unauthorized (401):

    401 Unauthorized
    This server could not verify that you are authorized to
    access the document you requested.  Either you supplied the
    wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser
    does not understand how to supply the credentials required.

Failure while trying to get server details for a non-existent server id - Response: ItemNotFound (404):

{
   "itemNotFound": 
      {
         "message": "Resource not found", 
         "code": 404, 
         "details": "",
         "errorid": "59e0b3dd-2173-432a-8ff5-60efe16e83bf"
      }
}

DELETE /servers/{server_id}/snapshots/snapshot_id

This operation will delete a single server snapshot.

Parameters

snapshot_id - string

Id of the server snapshot to delete.

Response Codes

Success

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted or HTTP/1.1 204 No Content

Failure

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized : This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document you requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser does not understand how to supply the credentials required.

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found : The resource requested is not found.

Examples

Successfully delete a specific server

DELETE http(s)://{api_server}/servers/123/snapshots/567

Response Code:

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted

Failure while trying to update a non-existent server

DELETE http(s)://{api_server}/servers/123/snapshots/{fake_server_id}

Response Code:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found