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GET Links¶

Description¶

Returns all the links for a given group.

Requests¶

Syntax¶

GET /groups/<id>/links HTTP/1.1
X-Hdf-domain: DOMAIN
Authorization: <authorization_string>
GET /groups/<id>/links?domain=DOMAIN HTTP/1.1
Authorization: <authorization_string>
  • <id> is the UUID of the group the links to be returned are a member of.

Request Parameters¶

This implementation of the operation uses the following request parameters (both optional):

Limit¶

If provided, a positive integer value specifying the maximum number of links to return.

Marker¶

If provided, a string value indicating that only links that occur after the marker value will be returned.

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:

links¶

An array of JSON objects giving information about each link returned. See GET Link for a description of the link response elements.

hrefs¶

An array of links to related resources. See Hypermedia.

Special Errors¶

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

Examples¶

Sample Request¶

GET /groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016/links HTTP/1.1
Host: hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org
X-Hdf-domain: /shared/tall.h5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*

Sample cURL command¶

$ curl -X GET --header "X-Hdf-domain: /shared/tall.h5" hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016/links

Sample Response¶

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:34:59 GMT
Content-Length: 916
Etag: "49edcce6a8f724108d41d52c98002d6255286ff8"
Content-Type: application/json
Server: nginx/1.15.0
{
    "links": [
        {
            "id": "g-be6eb652-83c5-11e8-b9ee-0242ac12000a",
            "title": "g1",
            "class": "H5L_TYPE_HARD",
            "collection": "groups",
            "created": 1531174596.2666101,
            "href": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016/links/g1",
            "target": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-be6eb652-83c5-11e8-b9ee-0242ac12000a"
        },
        {
            "id": "g-bf15f8b8-83c5-11e8-8ad9-0242ac120009",
            "title": "g2",
            "class": "H5L_TYPE_HARD",
            "collection": "groups",
            "created": 1531174597.2827835,
            "href": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016/links/g2",
            "target": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-bf15f8b8-83c5-11e8-8ad9-0242ac120009"
        }
    ],
    "hrefs": [
        {"rel": "self", "href": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016/links"},
        {"rel": "home", "href": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/"},
        {"rel": "owner", "href": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016"}
    ]
}

Sample Request Batch¶

GET /groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016/links?Marker=g1&Limit=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org
X-Hdf-domain: /shared/tall.h5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept: */*

Sample cURL command¶

URL enclosed in quotes to prevent shell from seeing ampersand

$ curl -X GET --header "X-Hdf-domain: /shared/tall.h5" "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016/links?Marker=g1&Limit=1"

Sample Response Batch¶

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:41:25 GMT
Content-Length: 597
Etag: "221affdeae54076d3493ce8ce0ed80ddb89c6e27"
Content-Type: application/json
Server: nginx/1.15.0
{
    "links": [
        {
            "id": "g-bf15f8b8-83c5-11e8-8ad9-0242ac120009",
            "title": "g2",
            "class": "H5L_TYPE_HARD",
            "collection": "groups",
            "created": 1531174597.2827835,
            "href": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016/links/g2",
            "target": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-bf15f8b8-83c5-11e8-8ad9-0242ac120009"
        }
    ],
    "hrefs": [
        {"rel": "self", "href": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016/links"},
        {"rel": "home", "href": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/"},
        {"rel": "owner", "href": "hsdshdflab.hdfgroup.org/groups/g-be5996fa-83c5-11e8-a8e6-0242ac120016"}
    ]
}

Related Resources¶

  • DELETE Link
  • GET Link
  • GET Group
  • PUT Link
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