pages/{pageid}/properties/{key}/info (GET)

Overview

Retrieve the metadata about a page property

 

NOTE: Expert sets a limit of 1,000 properties per page. 
 

Uri Parameters

Name Type Description
key string A unique identifier for a property that is obtained through GET:pages/{pageid}/properties
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.
contentcutoff int? Only show property content shorter than this number of bytes. Default: 2048

Return Codes

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

Message Format

Response is the standard property XML

<property name="{text}" href="{uri}" etag="{text}">
  <contents type="{text}" href="{uri}">{text}</contents>
  <date.modified>{date}</date.modified>
  <user.modified id="{int}" href="{uri}">
    <nick>{text}</nick>
    <username>{text}</username>
  </user.modified>
  <change-description>{text}</change-description>
</property>

Implementation Notes

C# Code Sample: Retrieve Info about a Page Property

The following code authenticates and retrieves information about a page property named 'foo' .

Sample Code


Plug p = Plug.New("http://devwiki/@api/deki"); 
p.At("users", "authenticate")
 .WithCredentials("sysop", "password").Get(); 
XDoc ret = p.At("pages", "=My%252fTest%252fPage", "properties", "foo", "info")
 .Get().AsDocument();

Sample Response from executing Code

<property name="foo" href="http://devwiki/@api/deki/pages/42/properties/foo/info" etag="4463.r1_ts2009-03-20T22:48:15Z">
  <contents type="text/plain; charset=utf-8" href="http://devwiki/@api/deki/pages/42/properties/foo">My Value</contents>
  <date.modified>2009-03-20T22:48:15Z</date.modified>
  <user.modified id="1" href="http://devwiki/@api/deki/users/1">
    <nick>Sysop</nick>
    <username>Sysop</username>
  </user.modified>
  <change-description>initial value</change-description>
</property>

Implementation notes 

Add notes about requirements or config values

Curl Code Sample: Retrieve Info about a Page Property

The following command retrieves metadata of page property "foo" associated with page "bar":

Sample Code

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

Sample Response from executing Code

Example metadata of the page property listed here.

Content-Type: application/xml

<property name="urn:custom.mindtouch.com#test" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/pages/567/properties/urn%253acustom.mindtouch.com%2523test/info" etag="114.r1_ts2010-01-29T22:16:57Z">
  <contents type="text/plain; charset=utf-8" size="4" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/pages/567/properties/urn%253acustom.mindtouch.com%2523test">test</contents>
  <date.modified>2010-01-29T22:16:57Z</date.modified>
  <user.modified id="88" href="http://192.168.59.128/@api/deki/users/88">
    <nick>test6</nick>
    <username>test6</username>
    <email hidden="true"/>
    <hash.email>989d7c3b24422e0f2ab2da41e3a91434</hash.email>
    <uri.gravatar>http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/989d7c3b24422e0f2ab2da41e3a91434</uri.gravatar>
  </user.modified>
</property>

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.

Page properties

To view a list of all properties for a given page, follow the instructions here.