GET /api/apis/{APIID}/board
Returns a list of Forum entries for the specified API.
If the API only has one version, the results returned for GET /api/apis/{APIID}/board (this operation) and GET /api/apis/{APIVersionID}/board are the same.
Authorization Roles/Permissions: Must have Read permission for the resource.
This topic includes the following sections:
HTTP Method
GET
URL
https://{hostname}/api/apis/{APIID}/board
Sample Request
The example below a request for an API's Board items. The request is limited to the first 10 items relating to a specified user.
Request URL #1
https://{hostname}/api/apis/api18969.acmepaymentscorp/board?start=0&count=10&RetrievingUserID=user12262.acmepaymentscorp&SortBy=DescendingDate
Request URL #2
Requests Board items of type Alert for the specified API.
https://{hostname}/api/apis/api200.acmepaymentscorp/board?start=0&count=10&RetrievingUserID=user10002.acmepaymentscorp&SortBy=DescendingDate&ItemType=Alert
Sample request headers
Accept:application/json X-Csrf-Token_acmepaymentscorp: TokenID%3D8ed70a13-8469-11e8-b37a-b155e4eabeb8%2CexpirationTime%3D153...
Sample request body
Not applicable.
Request Headers
For general information on request header values, refer to HTTP Request Headers.
Header | Description |
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Accept | application/json, text/xml, application/vnd.soa.v71+json, application/vnd.soa.v71+xml, application/vnd.soa.v72+json, application/vnd.soa.v72+xml, application/vnd.soa.v80+json, application/vnd.soa.v80+xml, application/vnd.soa.v81+json, application/vnd.soa.v81+xml |
Cookie | AtmoAuthToken_{fedmemberid}={cookie value, which usually starts with TokenID}—The platform cookie. This is the Akana API Platform authorization token, and must be sent with every API request that requires login. For more information and an example, see Session cookies. |
X-Csrf-Token_{fedmemberID} | The CSRF prevention header; may or may not be required, depending on platform settings. See CSRF Prevention on the Platform. By default, the CSRF header is not required for GET operations and is required for all others, with a few exceptions relating to user login. |
Request Parameters
Parameter | Parm Type | QueryData Type | Required | Description |
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APIID | Path | string | Required | The unique ID for a specific API. |
ItemType | Query | string[ ] | Optional | A filtering parameter, specifying one or more board item (forum entry) types to be returned, such as an alert, discussion, or ticket. For valid values, see Board Item Types. |
AppID | Query | string | Optional | If specified, only board items relating to that app are returned. If not specified, items relating to all apps are returned. |
TicketLabel | Query | string | Optional | A filtering parameter: if specified, only tickets with that label are returned. If not specified, no filter is applied. For valid values, refer to Ticket Label Values. |
TicketState | Query | string | Optional | A filtering parameter: if specified, only tickets of that state are returned. For valid values, refer to Ticket State Values. |
ItemID | Query | string | Optional |
The unique ID for a specific forum entry. If specified, results are limited to information relating to that item ID. If not specified, no filter is applied. |
Tag | Query | string | Optional |
A user-defined tag. If specified, results are limited to board items relating to that tag. If not specified, no filter is applied. |
IncludeComments | Query | boolean | Optional | Indicates whether comments should be included in the information returned. Default: true. If set to false, comments are excluded. |
NumberOfComments | Query | integer | Optional | The number of comments to be returned (if IncludeComments is not set to false). Default value: 2. |
IncludeActions | Query | boolean | Optional | Indicates whether workflow actions currently valid for the resource should be included in the results. Default: true. For valid workflow actions, see Workflow Actions. |
IncludeCommentActions | Query | boolean | Optional | Indicates whether workflow actions currently valid for a comment on the board should be included in the results. Default: false. For valid workflow actions for comments, see Comments: Valid Workflow Actions. |
start | Query | integer | Optional | An index number indicating the starting point for the results to be returned. If not specified, results start at position 0, the first result. |
count | Query | integer | Optional | The number of results to be returned, from the specified starting point. If not specified, all matching results are returned. |
SortBy | Query | string | Optional | An optional parameter allowing users to sort results by a specific value; for example, com.soa.sort.order.updated sorts with the most updated entries first. For valid values, see Sort By Values. If not specified, items are returned in the sort order of DescendingDate, which means that the most recent items are first. |
RetrievingUserID | Query | string | Optional | The unique UserID of the user performing a specific action. |
IncludeSelfAuthored | Query | string | Optional |
Indicates whether resources authored by the requestor should be included. Default: true. |
PublishedState | Query | string | Optional |
Indicates that only resources in a specific state should be returned. Valid values: published or unpublished. Default: published, indicating that only resources that have been published are returned. |
Response
If successful, this operation returns HTTP status code 200, with the API board items in the form of an RSS feed in JSON or XML format.
Sample Response
The sample response below shows the API board returned as an RSS channel in JSON format. There are two items on the board.
Sample response headers: application/json
Status Code: 200 OK Content-Type: application/json
Sample response body #1: application/json
{ "channel" : { "title" : "API Board", "startIndex" : 0, "totalResults" : 0, "itemsPerPage" : 10, "item" : [ { "title" : "ACMECorp member PhilipPirrip has been invited to the ACME Payments API UG Group", "description" : "Please join the ACME Payments API user group!", "category" : [ { "value" : "GROUP_MEMBER_REQ", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" }, { "value" : "false", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:archivable" }, { "value" : "com.soa.group.membership.state.pending", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:wfstate" } ], "guid" : { "value" : "group_member_req19794.acmepaymentscorp" }, "pubDate" : "2013-02-12T17:11:37.000Z", "AuthoringUser" : { "ID" : "522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp", "Name" : "JaneSaoirse", "Image" : { "Url" : "http://cdn.acmepaymentscorp.soa.com/api/users/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/avatar", "Title" : "JaneSaoirse", "Link" : "#/users/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/details" } }, "Image" : { "Url" : "http://cdn.acmepaymentscorp.soa.com/api/users/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/avatar", "Link" : "#/user/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/details" }, "CreatedDate" : "2013-02-12T17:11:37.000Z", "Marks" : { "Count" : 0, "IsMarkedByReader" : false }, "CommentsPreview" : { "Count" : 0, "Comment" : [ ] }, "EntityReference" : [ { "Title" : "PhilipPirrip", "Guid" : "2d0bc425-49ec-4c04-b272-cc8f6f20e52b.acmepaymentscorp", "Category" : [ { "value" : "user", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" } ] }, { "Title" : "acmepaymentscorp", "Guid" : "api18969.acmepaymentscorp", "Category" : [ { "value" : "api", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" } ] }, { "Title" : "2.0", "Guid" : "apiversion19184.acmepaymentscorp", "Category" : [ { "value" : "apiversion", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" } ] } ] }, { "title" : "ACMECorp member JonathanSwift has been invited to the ACME Payments API UG Group", "description" : "Please join the ACME Payments API user group!", "category" : [ { "value" : "GROUP_MEMBER_REQ", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" }, { "value" : "false", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:archivable" }, { "value" : "com.soa.group.membership.state.pending", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:wfstate" } ], "guid" : { "value" : "group_member_req19795.acmepaymentscorp" }, "pubDate" : "2013-02-12T17:11:37.000Z", "AuthoringUser" : { "ID" : "522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp", "Name" : "JaneSaoirse", "Image" : { "Url" : "http://cdn.acmepaymentscorp.soa.com/api/users/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/avatar", "Title" : "JaneSaoirse", "Link" : "#/users/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/details" } }, "Image" : { "Url" : "http://cdn.acmepaymentscorp.soa.com/api/users/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/avatar", "Link" : "#/user/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/details" }, "CreatedDate" : "2013-02-12T17:11:37.000Z", "Marks" : { "Count" : 0, "IsMarkedByReader" : false }, "CommentsPreview" : { "Count" : 0, "Comment" : [ ] }, "EntityReference" : [ { "Title" : "JonathanSwift", "Guid" : "45742f96-aad2-45d8-b507-420cf07c87ff.acmepaymentscorp", "Category" : [ { "value" : "user", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" } ] }, { "Title" : "acmepaymentscorp", "Guid" : "api18969.acmepaymentscorp", "Category" : [ { "value" : "api", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" } ] }, { "Title" : "2.0", "Guid" : "apiversion19184.acmepaymentscorp", "Category" : [ { "value" : "apiversion", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" } ] } ] } ] }, "version" : "1.0" }
Sample response body #2: application/json
The example below is a response to the sample URL, given above, requesting a list of Board items of type Alert.
{ "channel" : { "title" : "API Board", "startIndex" : 0, "totalResults" : 0, "itemsPerPage" : 10, "item" : [ { "title" : "Scheduled outage", "description" : "There will be a scheduled outage tomorrow, 21 February 2013, 12:00-3:00pm EST.", "category" : [ { "value" : "ALERT", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" }, { "value" : "alert", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:tag" }, { "value" : "problem", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:tag" }, { "value" : "issue", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:tag" }, { "value" : "Minor", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:alertpriority" }, { "value" : "Production", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:alertenvironment" } ], "guid" : { "value" : "alert10027.acmepaymentscorp" }, "pubDate" : "2013-02-20T20:19:15.518Z", "AuthoringUser" : { "ID" : "522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp", "Name" : "JaneSaoirse", "Image" : { "Url" : "https://{hostname}/api/users/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/avatar", "Title" : "JaneSaoirse", "Link" : "#/users/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/details" } }, "Image" : { "Url" : "https://{hostname}/api/users/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/avatar", "Link" : "../acmepaymentscorp#/user/522320b9-cb6b-495d-ae07-e4b3bfdb3f6a.acmepaymentscorp/details" }, "CreatedDate" : "2013-02-20T20:19:15.518Z", "Actions" : { "Action" : [ { "value" : "apialert.action.delete", "label" : "apialert.action.delete" } ] }, "Marks" : { "Count" : 0, "IsMarkedByReader" : false }, "CommentsPreview" : { "Count" : 0, "Comment" : [ ] }, "EntityReference" : [ { "Title" : "ACME Payments API", "Guid" : "api200.acmepaymentscorp", "Category" : [ { "value" : "api", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" } ] }, { "Title" : "1.0", "Guid" : "apiversion500.acmepaymentscorp", "Category" : [ { "value" : "apiversion", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:resourcetype" } ] } ] } ] }, "version" : "1.0" }
Response Headers
For general information on response header values, refer to HTTP Response Headers.
Header | Description |
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Content-Type | application/json, text/xml, application/vnd.soa.v71+json, application/vnd.soa.v71+xml, application/vnd.soa.v72+json, application/vnd.soa.v72+xml, application/vnd.soa.v80+json, application/vnd.soa.v80+xml, application/vnd.soa.v81+json, application/vnd.soa.v81+xml |
Response Body
The response body is in the form of an RSS channel, and includes the items listed below. The RSS version is 1.0. The title of the RSS Channel is API Board, and the channel includes paging values: StartIndex, TotalResults, and ItemsPerPage. Each item in the RSS channel represents a Board item, and includes the information below.
Name | Description |
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title | The text title of the Board item. |
description | Descriptive text for the Board item. |
category[ ] |
An array of sets of two name/value pairs, each including Value and Domain, with a value for each. For example: "value" : "false", "domain" : "uddi:soa.com:archivable" The example above indicates that the Board item is not archivable. |
GUID | GUID for the Board item. |
pubdate | The date/timestamp when the information was generated. |
AuthoringUser |
Information about the user who authored the Board item, including:
|
Image | Information about the image for the resource that the Board item is associated with, including URL and link. |
CreatedDate | The date/timestamp when the information was generated. |
Actions |
An array of name/value pair sets containing information about one or more action events that are valid for the current user to perform on the resource. Each includes value and label, and both contain the name of the valid action. Note: if the current user does not have authority to perform the actions, even though they are valid for the object, they are not returned. |
Marks | Information about marks on the Board item, including a numeric count and a boolean value, IsMarkedByReader, indicating whether the current user (if a user is logged in) marked the Board item. |
CommentsPreview | Information about comments on the Board item, including a numeric count and information about the specific comments, if applicable. |
EntityReference |
An array of one or more entity references for the Board item. Each includes:
|
Error Codes/Messages
If the call is unsuccessful an error code/message is returned. One or more examples of possible errors for this operation are shown below.
Item | Value |
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401 | Unauthorized. For example, you would get this response if you didn't include the custom X-Csrf-Token_{fedmemberID} header in the request, when it was required by the platform settings; or if you included an invalid or expired value for this header. You would also get this response for any operation that requires login (almost all) if the login cookie was missing. |
500 | An error occurred processing the call. |
More information about Akana API Platform API error messages.