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Retrieve the details of a role

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GET /security/roles/{owner.uuid}/{name}

Introduced In: 9.6

Retrieves the details of the specified role.

  • security login rest-role show

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Parameters

Name Type In Required Description

owner.uuid

string

path

True

Role owner UUID

name

string

path

True

Role name

fields

array[string]

query

False

Specify the fields to return.

Response

Status: 200, Ok
Name Type Description

_links

_links

builtin

boolean

Indicates if this is a built-in (pre-defined) role which cannot be modified or deleted.

name

string

Role name

owner

owner

Owner name and UUID that uniquely identifies the role.

privileges

array[role_privilege]

The list of privileges that this role has been granted.

scope

string

Scope of the entity. Set to "cluster" for cluster owned objects and to "svm" for SVM owned objects.
Example response 
{
  "_links": {
    "self": {
      "href": "/api/resourcelink"
    }
  },
  "name": "admin",
  "owner": {
    "_links": {
      "self": {
        "href": "/api/resourcelink"
      }
    },
    "name": "svm1",
    "uuid": "02c9e252-41be-11e9-81d5-00a0986138f7"
  },
  "privileges": [
    {
      "_links": {
        "self": {
          "href": "/api/resourcelink"
        }
      },
      "access": "readonly",
      "path": "/api/storage/volumes"
    }
  ],
  "scope": "string"
}

Error

Status: Default, Error
Name Type Description

error

error
Example error 
{
  "error": {
    "arguments": [
      {
        "code": "string",
        "message": "string"
      }
    ],
    "code": "4",
    "message": "entry doesn't exist",
    "target": "uuid"
  }
}

Definitions

See Definitions

href

Name Type Description

href

string

_links

Name Type Description

self

href

owner

Owner name and UUID that uniquely identifies the role.

Name Type Description

_links

_links

name

string

The name of the SVM.

uuid

string

The unique identifier of the SVM.

role_privilege

A tuple containing the REST endpoint and the access level assigned to that endpoint. The REST endpoint can be a resource-qualified endpoint. At present, the only supported resource-qualified endpoints are /api/storage/volumes/{volume.uuid}/snapshots and /api/storage/volumes//snapshots. "" is a wildcard character denoting "all" volumes.

Name Type Description

_links

_links

access

string

Access level for the REST endpoint.

path

string

REST URI/endpoint

error_arguments

Name Type Description

code

string

Argument code

message

string

Message argument

error

Name Type Description

arguments

array[error_arguments]

Message arguments

code

string

Error code

message

string

Error message

target

string

The target parameter that caused the error.