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Properties

/services/properties

Provides access to the configuration values


GET

Returns an Atom feed of top level configuration files


Response Status

200 - OK

Response Body 

// sample response to /services/properties
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:s="http://dev.splunk.com/ns/rest">
    <title>properties</title>
    <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties</id>
    <updated>2008-01-29T11:40:58-0800</updated>
    <generator version="31758"/>
    <author>
        <name>Splunk</name>
    </author>
    <entry>
        <title>alert_actions</title>
        <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions</id>
        <updated>2008-01-29T11:40:58-0800</updated>
        <link href="https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions" rel="alternate"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>api</title>
        <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties/api</id>
        <updated>2008-01-29T11:40:58-0800</updated>
        <link href="https://localhost:8089/services/properties/api" rel="alternate"/>
    </entry>
</feed>

/services/properties/file_name

Provides access to the configuration values for a specific file


GET

Returns an Atom feed of stanzas contained in file_name


Response Status

200 - OK

Response Body 

// sample response to /services/properties/alert_actions
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:s="http://dev.splunk.com/ns/rest">
    <title>alert_actions</title>
    <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions</id>
    <updated>2008-01-29T11:43:21-0800</updated>
    <generator version="31758"/>
    <author>
        <name>Splunk</name>
    </author>
    <entry>
        <title>default</title>
        <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/default</id>
        <updated>2008-01-29T11:43:21-0800</updated>
        <link href="https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/default" rel="alternate"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>email</title>
        <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/email</id>
        <updated>2008-01-29T11:43:21-0800</updated>
        <link href="https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/email" rel="alternate"/>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>rss</title>
        <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/rss</id>
        <updated>2008-01-29T11:43:21-0800</updated>
        <link href="https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/rss" rel="alternate"/>
    </entry>
</feed>

POST

Creates a new stanza within file_name


Form Arguments

__stanza - The name of the stanza to create

Response Status

201 - Stanza was successfully created; will be followed by header Location: /services/properties/[stanza_name]

303 - Stanza already exists; will be followed by header Location: /services/properties/[stanza_name]

400 - Form arguments were invalid

Response Body

[no response body, unless error occurs]


/services/properties/file_name/stanza_name

Provides access to the configuration values for a stanza within a specific file


GET

Returns an Atom feed of key/value pairs contained in the stanza


Response Status

200 - OK

404 - Stanza was not found in file_name

Response Body 

// sample response to /services/properties/alert_actions/email
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:s="http://dev.splunk.com/ns/rest">
    <title>email</title>
    <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/email</id>
    <updated>2008-01-29T11:55:24-0800</updated>
    <generator version="31758"/>
    <author>
        <name>Splunk</name>
    </author>
    <entry>
        <title>format</title>
        <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/email/format</id>
        <updated>2008-01-29T11:55:24-0800</updated>
        <link href="https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/email/format" rel="alternate"/>
        <content type="text">csv</content>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>from</title>
        <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/email/from</id>
        <updated>2008-01-29T11:55:24-0800</updated>
        <link href="https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/email/from" rel="alternate"/>
        <content type="text">splunk</content>
    </entry>
    <entry>
        <title>inline</title>
        <id>https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/email/inline</id>
        <updated>2008-01-29T11:55:24-0800</updated>
        <link href="https://localhost:8089/services/properties/alert_actions/email/inline" rel="alternate"/>
        <content type="text">false</content>
    </entry>
</feed>

POST

Adds or updates key/value pairs in the current stanza. One or more key/value pairs may be passed at one time to this endpoint.


Form Arguments

<key_name> - The argument name is the key to update; the value is the value to be set

Response Status

200 - Key value was successfully added/updated

400 - Form request was badly formed

404 - The stanza was not found

409 - One or more of the input values failed validation

Response Body

[upon successful write (HTTP 200), the response will be identical to the GET response; non-200 response will be standard message format]



PUT

Adds or overwrites the entire stanza block. If the stanza doesn't already exist, it will be created. The PUT method is useful for adding inline comments.


Request

<raw_payload> - The raw text of the stanza, excluding the stanza header declaration

Response Status

200 - Stanza was updated

201 - Stanza was created; will be followed by header Location: /services/properties/[stanza_name]. This is redundant, but follows spec.

404 - The file_name was not found

Response Body

[upon successful write (HTTP 20x), the response will be identical to the GET response; non-200 response will be standard message format]


/services/properties/file_name/stanza_name/key_name

Provides access to individual key/value within a stanza


GET

Returns the value of the key in plain text.


Response Status

200 - OK

404 - Key/stanza/file was not found

Response Body 

// sample response to /services/properties/alert_actions/email/format
csv


POST

Updates an existing key value


Form Arguments

value - The argument name is the key to update; the value is the value to be set

Response Status

200 - Key value was successfully added/updated

400 - Form request was badly formed

404 - The stanza was not found

409 - The input value failed validation

Response Body

[upon successful write (HTTP 200), the response will be identical to the GET response; non-200 response will be standard message format]



PUT

Adds a new key to the stanza, or updates an existing key


Request

<raw_payload> - The raw value of the key

Response Status

200 - Key was updated

201 - Key was created

404 - The file_name or stanza_name was not found

409 - The value failed validation

Response Body

[upon successful write (HTTP 20x), the response will be identical to the GET response; non-200 response will be standard message format]

Retrieved from "http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/3.2.4/Developer/Properties"

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 3.2 , 3.2.1 , 3.2.2 , 3.2.3 , 3.2.4 , 3.2.5 , 3.2.6 View the Article History for its revisions.


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