REST URL and endpoints

To use the REST APIs, make sure you can access the Insight server by entering the generic REST URL in the browser address field.

You can issue REST requests by using two possible endpoints: either http://hostname:9080, or https://hostname:9443, where 9080 is the http port and 9443 is the https port that is defined in the httpEndpoint element of the server.xml file. The following examples use http and https and the REST URL to get a list of entities:

http://localhost:9080/ibm/ia/rest/solutions/solution_name/entity-types/entity_type/entities

https://localhost:9443/ibm/ia/rest/solutions/solution_name/entity-types/entity_type/entities

where localhost is the Liberty server location, 9080, or 9443 is the port where the web application is running, ibm/ia/rest is the location of the web application, and solutions/solution_name is the scope of the request, for example, solutions/BankingSolution.