View information about an application

GET method to get information about a specific application.

Method	URL	Description
GET	https://`host_name`:`port`/platform/rest/symrest/v1/applications/`AppName`	Get information about a specific application.

Request

GET https://host_name:port/platform/rest/symrest/v1/applications/AppName?parameters

Table 1. Request parameters
Parameter	Type	Required/Optional	Description
AppName	string	Required	Name of the application.
csrftoken	string	Optional	CSRF token that is obtained with successful login.

If you use curl, the command might look like the following example:

curl --header -b /tmp/cookie --cacert /opt/ibm/spectrumcomputing/wlp/usr/shared/resources/security/cacert.pem --tlsv1.2 -X GET "https://mysymhost.example.com:8050
/platform/rest/symrest/v1/applications/symping7.3.2&csrftoken=915ee7644f431e630dac68b9ab3e40bc

Response

The command returns JSON content, application attributes (except for profile data information), about the specific application. For example, this response shows information about the symping7.3.2 application:

{
  "abortSession": 0,
  "appName": "symping7.3.2",
  "assignment": {
    "unusedSlots": 0,
    "usedSlotsWithTasks": 1,
    "usedSlotsWithoutTasks": 0
  },
  "closeSession": 0,
…
}

Table 2. Response codes
Status code	Description
`200`	OK
`400`	Bad request
`500`	Internal error