Features

List all desired properties of a feature

GET
https://ditto.eclipseprojects.io/api/2/things/{thingId}/features/{featureId}/desiredProperties

Returns all desired properties of the feature identified by the thingId and featureId path parameter.

Parameters

thingIdstringrequiredpath

The ID of a thing needs to follow the namespaced entity ID notation (see Ditto documentation on namespaced entity IDs).

featureIdstringrequiredpath

The ID of the feature - has to conform to RFC-3986 (URI)

fieldsstringquery

Contains a comma-separated list of fields from the desiredProperties to be included in the returned JSON.

Selectable fields

Supports selecting arbitrary sub-fields as defined in the desiredProperties by using a comma-separated list:

  • several desiredProperties paths can be passed as a comma-separated list of JSON pointers (RFC-6901)

    For example:

    • ?fields=temperature would select only temperature property value of desiredProperties (if present)
    • ?fields=temperature,humidity would select only temperature and humidity property values of desiredProperties (if present)

Supports selecting arbitrary sub-fields of objects by wrapping sub-fields inside parentheses ( ):

  • a comma-separated list of sub-fields (a sub-field is a JSON pointer (RFC-6901) separated with /) to select

  • sub-selectors can be used to request only specific sub-fields by placing expressions in parentheses ( ) after a selected subfield

    For example:

    • ?fields=location(longitude,latitude) would select the longitude and latitude value inside the location property of desiredProperties

Examples

  • ?fields=temperature,humidity,location(longitude,latitude)

  • ?fields=configuration,status(powerConsumption/watts)

If-Matchstringheader

The If-Match header which has to conform to RFC-7232 (Conditional Requests). Common usages are:

  • optimistic locking by specifying the ETag from a previous HTTP response, e.g. If-Match: "hash:a75ece4e"
  • retrieving or modifying a resource only if it already exists, e.g. If-Match: *
If-None-Matchstringheader

The If-None-Match header, which has to conform to RFC-7232 (Conditional Requests). A common usage scenario is to modify a resource only if it does not yet exist, thus to create it, by specifying If-None-Match: *.

get-metadatastringheader

The get-metadata header, which retrieves Metadata of the Thing.

timeoutstringquery

Defines how long the backend should wait for completion of the request, e.g. applied when waiting for requested acknowledgements via the requested-acks param. Can be specified without unit (then seconds are assumed) or together with s, ms or m unit. Example: 42s, 1m.

The default (if omitted) and maximum timeout is 60s. A value of 0 applies fire and forget semantics for the command resulting in setting response-required=false.

conditionstringquery

Defines that the request should only be processed if the given condition is met. The condition can be specified using RQL syntax.

Examples

E.g. if the temperature is not 23.9 update it to 23.9:

  • PUT /api/2/things/{thingId}/features/temperature/properties/value?condition=ne(features/temperature/properties/value,23.9)

    body: 23.9

Further example conditions:

  • ?condition=eq(features/temperature/properties/unit,"Celsius")
  • ?condition=ge(features/temperature/properties/lastModified,"2021-08-22T19:45:00Z")
  • ?condition=gt(_modified,"2021-08-05T12:17:00Z")
  • ?condition=exists(features/temperature/properties/value)
  • ?condition=empty(features/temperature/properties/value)
  • ?condition=and(gt(features/temperature/properties/value,18.5),lt(features/temperature/properties/value,25.2))
  • ?condition=or(gt(features/temperature/properties/value,18.5),not(exists(features/temperature/properties/value))
channelstringtwinlivequery

Defines to which channel to route the command: twin (digital twin) or live (the device).

  • If setting the channel parameter is omitted, the twin channel is set by default and the command is routed to the persisted representation of a thing in Eclipse Ditto.
  • When using the live channel, the command/message is sent towards the device.
live-channel-conditionstringquery

Defines that the request should fetch thing data via live channel if the given condition is met. The condition can be specified using RQL syntax.

Examples

  • ?live-channel-condition=lt(_modified,"2021-12-24T12:23:42Z")

  • ?live-channel-condition=ge(features/ConnectionStatus/properties/status/readyUntil,time:now)

live-channel-timeout-strategyanyfailuse-twinquery

Defines a strategy how to handle timeouts of a live response to a request sent via channel=live or with a matching live-channel-condition.

Response

The desired properties were successfully retrieved.

Response headers
ETagstringheader

The (current server-side) ETag for this (sub-)resource. For top-level resources it is in the format "rev:[revision]", for sub-resources it has the format "hash:[calculated-hash]".

live-channel-condition-matchedbooleanheader

Whether or not the live-channel-condition did match and the thing was retrieved from the device.

channelstringheader

The cannel which was used to retrieve the thing.

Response fields application/json

An arbitrary JSON object describing the properties of a feature.

FeatureProperties
304Not Modified

The (sub-)resource has not been modified. This happens when you specified a If-None-Match header which matches the current ETag of the (sub-)resource.

Response headers
ETagstringheader

The (current server-side) ETag for this (sub-)resource. For top-level resources it is in the format "rev:[revision]", for sub-resources it has the format "hash:[calculated-hash]".

400Bad RequestAdvancedError

The request could not be completed. Possible reasons:

Response fields application/json
statusintegerrequired

The HTTP status of the error

errorstringrequired

The error code of the occurred exception

messagestringrequired

The message of the error - what went wrong

descriptionstring

A description how to fix the error or more details

hrefstring

A link to further information about the error and how to fix it

401UnauthorizedAdvancedError

The request could not be completed due to missing authentication.

Response fields application/json
statusintegerrequired

The HTTP status of the error

errorstringrequired

The error code of the occurred exception

messagestringrequired

The message of the error - what went wrong

descriptionstring

A description how to fix the error or more details

hrefstring

A link to further information about the error and how to fix it

404Not FoundAdvancedError

The request could not be completed. The specified feature has no desired properties or the thing with the specified thingId or the feature with featureId was not found.

Response fields application/json
statusintegerrequired

The HTTP status of the error

errorstringrequired

The error code of the occurred exception

messagestringrequired

The message of the error - what went wrong

descriptionstring

A description how to fix the error or more details

hrefstring

A link to further information about the error and how to fix it

412Precondition FailedAdvancedError

A precondition for reading or writing the (sub-)resource failed. This will happen for write requests, if you specified an If-Match or If-None-Match header, which fails the precondition check against the current ETag of the (sub-)resource. For read requests, this error may only happen for a failing If-Match header. In case of a failing If-None-Match header for a read request, status 304 will be returned instead.

Response headers
ETagstringheader

The (current server-side) ETag for this (sub-)resource. For top-level resources it is in the format "rev:[revision]", for sub-resources it has the format "hash:[calculated-hash]".

Response fields application/json
statusintegerrequired

The HTTP status of the error

errorstringrequired

The error code of the occurred exception

messagestringrequired

The message of the error - what went wrong

descriptionstring

A description how to fix the error or more details

hrefstring

A link to further information about the error and how to fix it

Authorization

OpenIDConnectopenIdConnect

OpenID Connect Discovery URL. The placeholder is replaced by Swagger UI when configured.

NginxBasichttp (basic)

Eclipse Ditto sandbox demo user (demo1 ... demo9) + password (demo)

Bearerhttp (bearer)

A JSON Web Token issued by a supported OAuth 2.0 Identity Provider.