GET Datatype¶

Description¶

Returns information about the committed datatype with the UUID given in the URI.

Requests¶

Syntax¶

GET /datatypes/<id> HTTP/1.1
Host: DOMAIN
Authorization: <authorization_string>

<id> is the UUID of the requested datatype.

Request Parameters¶

This implementation of the operation does not use request parameters.

Request Headers¶

This implementation of the operation uses only the request headers that are common to most requests. See Common Request Headers

Responses¶

Response Headers¶

This implementation of the operation uses only response headers that are common to most responses. See Common Response Headers.

Response Elements¶

On success, a JSON response will be returned with the following elements:

id¶

The UUID of the datatype object.

type¶

A JSON object representing the type of the datatype object.

attributeCount¶

The number of attributes belonging to the datatype.

created¶

A timestamp giving the time the dataset was created in UTC (ISO-8601 format).

lastModified¶

A timestamp giving the most recent time the dataset has been modified (i.e. attributes updated) in UTC (ISO-8601 format).

hrefs¶

An array of links to related resources. See Hypermedia.

Special Errors¶

The implementation of the operation does not return special errors. For general information on standard error codes, see Common Error Responses.

Examples¶

Get the committed datatype with UUID: “f545543d-…”.

Sample Request¶

GET /datatypes/f545543d-a1b4-11e4-8fa4-3c15c2da029e HTTP/1.1
host: namedtype.test.hdfgroup.org
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*
User-Agent: python-requests/2.3.0 CPython/2.7.8 Darwin/14.0.0

Sample Response¶

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:36:49 GMT
Content-Length: 619
Etag: "c53bc5b2d3c3b5059b71ef92ca7d144a2df54456"
Content-Type: application/json
Server: TornadoServer/3.2.2

{
"id": "f545543d-a1b4-11e4-8fa4-3c15c2da029e",
"type": {
    "base": "H5T_IEEE_F32LE",
    "class": "H5T_FLOAT"
  },
"created": "2015-01-21T21:32:01Z",
"lastModified": "2015-01-21T21:32:01Z",
"attributeCount": 1,
"hrefs": [
    {"href": "http://namedtype.test.hdfgroup.org/datatypes/f545543d-a1b4-11e4-8fa4-3c15c2da029e", "rel": "self"},
    {"href": "http://namedtype.test.hdfgroup.org/groups/f545103d-a1b4-11e4-b4a1-3c15c2da029e", "rel": "root"},
    {"href": "http://namedtype.test.hdfgroup.org/datatypes/f545543d-a1b4-11e4-8fa4-3c15c2da029e/attributes", "rel": "attributes"},
    {"href": "http://namedtype.test.hdfgroup.org/", "rel": "home"}
  ]
}