REST API - Download a ticket attachment

Last modified on 2023/04/05 15:37

Minimum version Service Manager: Oxygen 2022 - Build 2022.1.133.0.01

   This method replaces the earlier version which nevertheless continues to work.

Open url.png See the method for the versions Oxygen 2.1 - Build 2018.1.181.0 and earlier.

GET  /requests/{rfc_number}/documents/{document_id}

  • This method allows a specified attachment for a specified ticket to be downloaded.
    example   /requests/I221024_000001/documents/40000_9ae8ab51e5eb847d76a72aeac2a0f1c99f1039cebd585b49e6b1914c43bf7

Notes

   Open url.png  See Service Manager REST API Conventions

Best Practice

List of parameters / fields

Mandatory parameters

You must use the parameter below in the URL.
 

Parameter Type Description / Example
rfc_number string Ticket number
document_id string Document key

Optional parameters

Minimum version Parameter Type Description / Example
Autumn 2020 - Build 2020.2.125.3 encoding string Encode the document in base64.
  • example /documents/{document_id}?encoding=base64

HTTP status codes for the method

StatusHeader

Note: A Timeout error code will be returned if the server does not respond to the REST Web service request within a given time (by default 60 seconds).

Code Error Description
Status200
200 OK (Successful) Request successfully processed.
Status401
401 Unauthorized Incorrect authentication process for accessing the resource: Incorrect login/password, invalid session, incorrect Service Manager account.

example

{
 "error": "Invalid Login / Password"
}
Status403
403 Forbidden Server refuses to run the request. Unlike error 401, authentication is accepted but access rights do not authorize the customer to access the resource: Users who do not have the REST API parameter enabled for their profile.
Status404
404 Not found Resource not found: Incorrect URI, missing resource, incorrect communication with the server, rfc_number not found.

example

{
 "error": "Resource not found"
}
ConventionsAPI

REST API Conventions

Convention Meaning
Orange Parameters used in an HTTP request string which do not correspond to Service Manager database fields.

example   Method View a list of assets

https://{your_server}/api/v1/{your_account}/assets?max_rows=3&fields=asset_tag
Black and Bold Parameters used in the URL of an HTTP request which correspond to Service Manager database fields.

example   Method View an asset

https://{your_server}/api/v1/{your_account}/assets/{asset_id}
Green Parameters used in the body of an HTTP request which represent JSON object names corresponding to Service Manager database fields; they allow the value of a database field to be assigned or modified.

example   Method Close an incident/request

{  "closed": {  "end_date": "11/20/2016 12:12:12",  }  }
Parameters used in the body of an HTTP request which represent JSON object names not corresponding to Service Manager database fields.

example   Method Reopen an incident/request

{  "restarted": {  "comment": "string (required)"  }  }
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