3.2. Example: Access API Entry Point
The following request retrieves a representation of the main entry point of the API.
Example 3.1. Access the API entry point
Request:
GET /api HTTP/1.1 Accept: application/xml
cURL command:
# curl -X GET -H "Accept: application/xml" -u [USER:PASS] \
--cacert [CERT] https://[RHEVM Host]:443/api
Result:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
<api>
<link rel="capabilities" href="/api/capabilities"/>
<link rel="clusters" href="/api/clusters"/>
<link rel="clusters/search" href="/api/clusters?search={query}"/>
<link rel="datacenters" href="/api/datacenters"/>
<link rel="datacenters/search" href="/api/datacenters?search={query}"/>
<link rel="events" href="/api/events"/>
<link rel="events/search" href="/api/events?search={query}"/>
<link rel="hosts" href="/api/hosts"/>
<link rel="hosts/search" href="/api/hosts?search={query}"/>
<link rel="networks" href="/api/networks"/>
<link rel="roles" href="/api/roles"/>
<link rel="storagedomains" href="/api/storagedomains"/>
<link rel="storagedomains/search" href="/api/storagedomains?search={query}"/>
<link rel="tags" href="/api/tags"/>
<link rel="templates" href="/api/templates"/>
<link rel="templates/search" href="/api/templates?search={query}"/>
<link rel="users" href="/api/users"/>
<link rel="groups" href="/api/groups"/>
<link rel="domains" href="/api/domains"/>
<link rel="vmpools" href="/api/vmpools"/>
<link rel="vmpools/search" href="/api/vmpools?search={query}"/>
<link rel="vms" href="/api/vms"/>
<link rel="vms/search" href="/api/vms?search={query}"/>
<special_objects>
<link rel="templates/blank"
href="/api/templates/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"/>
<link rel="tags/root"
href="/api/tags/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"/>
</special_objects>
<product_info>
<name>Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization</name>
<vendor>Red Hat</vendor>
<version revision="0" build="0" minor="0" major="3"/>
</product_info>
<summary>
<vms>
<total>5</total>
<active>0</active>
</vms>
<hosts>
<total>1</total>
<active>1</active>
</hosts>
<users>
<total>1</total>
<active>1</active>
</users>
<storage_domains>
<total>2</total>
<active>2</active>
</storage_domains>
</summary>
</api>
The entry point provides a user with links to the collections in a virtualization environment. The
rel= attribute of each collection link provides a reference point for each link. The next step in this example examines the datacenter collection, which is available through the rel="datacenter" link.
The entry point also contains other data such as
product_info, special_objects and summary. This data is covered in chapters outside this example.