Cloud Enterprise Object Storage REST API

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Get Root System Metadata

GET /rest/namespace/path?{metadata/system}

Returns the system metadata for the specified object."

URL Format

/rest/namespace/path?{metadata/system}


Query Parameters

metadata/system

Request Headers

"x-emc-date" or "Date" required
"x-emc-uid" required
"x-emc-signature" required
"x-emc-utf8" requiredOnly required if metadata values are in Unicode.
"x-emc-tags" optional

Response Body


XML Example

Request
GET /rest/namespace/dir561/file14.txt?metadata/system HTTP/1.1
accept: */*
date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:51:30 GMT
content-type: application/octet-stream
x-emc-date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:51:30 GMT
host: 168.159.116.112:2345
x-emc-uid: ebd858f829114dfabbcf069637a07cfe/user1
x-emc-signature: vMyNLeg/ja208OwCPYlwjMt/MW4=
Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:51:30 GMT
Server: Apache
x-emc-policy: _int
x-emc-meta: atime=2010-07-05T19:51:19Z, mtime=2010-07-05T19:51:19Z,
ctime=2010-07-05T19:51:19Z, itime=2010-07-05T19:51:19Z,
type=regular, uid=user1, gid=apache,
objectid=4bf520e2a105737304bf52170a4e6204c3237b7c1b16,
objname=test14.txt4, size=1037, nlink=1, policyname=default
x-emc-wschecksum: sha0/1037/87hn7kkdd9d982f031qwe9ab224abjd6h1276nj9
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8