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Library

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Get Components

GET https://qa-api.bentley.com/library/components[?$top][&$skip][&projectId][&$search][&catalogs]

Retrieves digital components from user's organization or project context.

Response

By default, each entity in the returned list will have only the id and display name.

A full representation of each entity can be returned by specifying the prefer header that includes a value of return=representation.

Authentication

Requires Authorization header with valid Bearer token for scope itwin-platform.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit OAUTH2 Authorization page.

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization or have Read permission assigned at the organization level or have Read permission assigned at the project level, in case request is scoped to a project.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services wiki page.

Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit Rate limits and quotas page.

Request

Request parameters

$top

The $top system query option requests the number of items in the queried collection to be included in the result.

$skip

The $skip query option requests the number of items in the queried collection that are to be skipped and not included in the result.

projectId

Id of the project.

$search

Find all components that have the search string anywhere in the  hashTags or displayName.

catalogs

Find all components that have the catalogs associated. Value of catalogs should be comma separated list of valid catalog Ids without spaces e.g., catalogs=bef75b3c-dc4b-a205-adac-7501a367284e,hsu75b3c-dc4b-a205-adac-7501a367275f.

Request headers

Prefer

Indicates a level of details in the response. This operation supports 'return=representation' and 'return=minimal' preferences.

Authorization

Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

Yes

Setting to application/vnd.bentley.itwin-platform.v1+json is recommended.

Response

Response 200 OK

json

{
    "components": [{
            "id": "4ca8dcff-5ebb-b236-ea2f-0bfbdf3c623e",
            "displayName": "Door"
        },
        {
            "id": "3ea8dcff-5ebb-b236-ea2f-0bfbdf3c624b",
            "displayName": "Door"
        }
    ],
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://api.bentley.com/Library/components?$skip=0&$top=100"
        },
        "prev": {
            "href": "https://api.bentley.com/Library/components?$skip=0&$top=100"
        },
        "next": {
            "href": "https://api.bentley.com/Library/components?$skip=100&$top=100"
        }
    }
}

Response 401 Unauthorized

This response indicates that request lacks valid authentication credentials. Access token might not been provided, issued by the wrong issuer, does not have required scopes or request headers were malformed.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "HeaderNotFound",
        "message": "Header Authorization was not found in the request. Access denied."
    }
}

Response 404 Not Found

This response indicates that the specified components not found.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "ComponentsNotFound",
        "message": "Requested Components is not available."
    }
}

Response 422 Unprocessable Entity

Invalid request to get components.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "InvalidComponentsRequest",
        "message": "Cannot perform operation.",
        "details": [{
            "code": "InvalidValue",
            "message": "Page size is over '1000' items limit.",
            "target": "$top"
        }]
    }
}

Response 429 Too many requests

This response indicates that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "TooManyRequests",
        "message": "More requests were received than the subscription rate-limit allows."
    }
}

Response headers

retry-after

The number of requests exceeds the rate-limit for the client subscription.

Definitions

Components (prefer return=representation)

components

Component[]

_links

links-paging

Contains the hyperlinks to the previous and next pages of results.

Components (prefer return=minimal)

components

component-summary[]

_links

links-paging

Contains the hyperlinks to the previous and next pages of results.

Component (summary)

String

Id of the component.

displayName

String

Display name of the component.

Component state

Indicates the state of component.

Draft

String

Published

String

Checked

String

Approved

String

Archived

String

Component

String

Id of the component.

displayName

String

Display name of the component.

description

String

Description of the component.

Component state

Component-state

Indicates the state of component.

createdDateTime

String

Created datetime of the component.

lastModifiedDateTime

String

Last modified datetime of the component.

supportedFileTypes

String[]

Supported file types of the component.

hashtags

String[]

Hashtags of the component.

_links

component-links

Contains the hyperlinks to the related data of component.

Component Links

Hyperlinks to related data which complements this entity.

catalogs

Link[]

Links to associated catalogs.

application

Link

Link to associated application of the component.

Link

href

String

Links (paging)

self

Link

Error

Contains error information.

code

String

One of a server-defined set of error codes.

message

String

A human-readable representation of the error.

target

String, null

The target of the error.

Error Response

Gives details for an error that occurred while handling the request. Note that clients MUST NOT assume that every failed request will produce an object of this schema, or that all of the properties in the response will be non-null, as the error may have prevented this response from being constructed.

error

Error

Error information.

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