Service Handshake

Queries the availability of the Entity service.

Request

Method Type:

GET

URI:

/rest/serverengine/entity

Content: –
Content Type:

–

Add. Headers:

If server security settings are enabled, then one of the following:

  • Authorization – Basic Authentication (Username and Password) credentials (Base64 encoded)
  • auth_token – Authorization Token

Response

Success

The following lists status codes indicative of a successful response:

Status Code Content Content-Type Add. Headers Description
200
OK		 Handshake message:
Server Engine REST Service available: EntityRestService 		text/plain – REST Service available

Error

The following lists status codes indicative of a failed or error response:

Status Code Content Content-Type Add. Headers Description

401 Unauthorized

JSON Error specifying error message

application/json

WWW-Authenticate – BASIC (Basic Authentication credentials are accepted)

Server authentication has failed.

Response when either:

  • basic authentication credentials nor an authorization token have been specified in the request headers

  • the basic authentication credentials or the authorization token specified in the request headers are invalid

  • the authorization token specified in the request headers has now expired