(Quick Reference) Service: Show an authority

Description: This web service return an existing authority object of the specified id in JSON format

URL:

https://BASE_URL/api/VERSION/authorities/{id}

URL with external_id:

https://BASE_URL/api/VERSION/authorities/reference/{id}

Method: GET

Parameters:

NameDescriptionTypeRequiredExample values
idid of the wanted recordLong/StringYes777

The name of authority can be used as an external ID

Success Output

Success case: response.status = 200
{
    "id": 11,
    "name": "CEO",
    "dateCreated": "2016-09-09T08:18:51Z",
    "lastUpdated": "2016-09-09T08:18:51Z"
}

Failure Output

Failure case:response.status = 400
{
    "error": "invalid_param_type",
    "error_description": "The type of parameter id you provided is not valid for this request."
}

Failure case:response.status = 404
{
  "error": "not_found",
  "error_description": "The authority with the id 999 doesn't exist."
}