pages/{pageid}/info (GET)

Overview

Retrieve page information

REST Method: GET
Method Access: public

Uri Parameters

Name	Type	Description
pageid	string	either an integer page ID, "home", or "=" followed by a double uri-encoded page path

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
authenticate	bool?	Force authentication for request (default: false)
redirects	int?	If zero, do not follow page redirects.
exclude	string?	Elements to exclude from response document (choice of "revision"; default: exclude nothing)

Return Codes

Name	Value	Description
OK	200	The request completed successfully
Bad Request	400	Invalid input parameter or request body
Forbidden	403	Read access to the page is required
Not Found	404	Requested page could not be found

Message Format

Output:

<page id="{int}" href="{uri}">
    <title>{text}</title> 
    <path>{text}</path> 
</page>

Implementation Notes

The page title is the user-friendly display name of the page. The page path is the full database-encoded page title.

C# Code Sample: Retrieve Page Info

The following code example retrieves page information about the home page:

Sample Code

Plug p = Plug.New("http://deki-hayes/@api/deki");
p.At("users", "authenticate").WithCredentials("admin", "password").Get();
p.At("pages", "home", "info").Get();

Sample Response from executing Code

<page id="29" href="http://deki-hayes/@api/deki/pages/29">
    <title>DekiWiki (Hayes)</title> 
    <path /> 
</page>

Implementation notes

Add notes about requirements or config values

Curl Code Sample: Retrieve Page Info

The following command retrieves basic information about page "foo":

Sample Code

curl -u username:password -i http://mindtouch.address/@api/deki/pages/=foo/info

Sample Response from executing Code

{pageid} = bar

Content-Type: application/xml

<page id="565" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/pages/565?redirects=0">
  <uri.ui>http://192.168.59.128/Bar</uri.ui>
  <title>Bar</title>
  <path>Bar</path>
  <namespace>main</namespace>
</page>

Implementation notes

curl flags

-u: Provides external user authentication. Note that if anonymous access is available and authentication is not forced, this flag may be omitted.
-i: Outputs the HTTP response headers. Useful for debugging.

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