• Namespace

Create Retention Class

Creates a retention class for the specified namespace. The method payload specifies the retention class details which define a name for the class and a retention period.

Required Roles

Requires one of the following roles:

• SYSTEM_ADMIN

• NAMESPACE_ADMIN

Prerequisites

The following conditions must be met in order to call this operation.

• Namespace must exist

Request Payload

<retention_class_create>
   <name></name>
   <period></period>
</retention_class_create>

{
  "name": "",
  "period": ""
}

Response Body

Response indicating Success or Failure to create retention class

Examples

POST https://192.168.0.0:4443/object/namespaces/namespace/s3/retention HTTP/1.1

Content-Type: application/xml
X-SDS-AUTH-TOKEN: <AUTH_TOKEN>

<retention_class_create>
   <name>retcls3</name>
   <period>4</period>
</retention_class_create>

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml

POST https://192.168.0.0:4443/object/namespaces/namespace/s3/retention.json HTTP/1.1

Content-Type: application/json
X-SDS-AUTH-TOKEN: <AUTH_TOKEN>

{
  "name": "s31",
  "period": "1"
}

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json