Getting information about the metadata class: getMeta

The request is made along the path <server URL>/rest/<service name>/getMeta/<class name>, where the class name is indicated with a namespace.

You can specify in the request: doc: additional parameters <meta_query_parameters>:

• version
• namespace

Query example:

https://localhost:8888/rest/meta/getMeta/class_text@develop-and-test

Information on the class_text class in the namespace develop-and-test will be requested, an example response:

{ namespace: 'develop-and-test',
isStruct: false,
metaVersion: '2.0.7',
key: [ 'id' ],
semantic: '',
name: 'class_text',
version: '',
caption: 'Class "Text [1]"',
ancestor: null,
container: null,
creationTracker: '',
changeTracker: '',
history: 0,
journaling: false,
compositeIndexes: null,
properties:
[ { orderNumber: 10,
   name: 'id',
   caption: 'Identifier',
   type: 12,
   size: 24,
   decimals: 0,
   allowedFileTypes: null,
   maxFileCount: 0,
   nullable: false,
   readonly: false,
   indexed: true,
   unique: true,
   autoassigned: true,
   hint: null,
   defaultValue: null,
   refClass: '',
   itemsClass: '',
   backRef: '',
   backColl: '',
   binding: '',
   semantic: null,
   selConditions: null,
   selSorting: [],
   selectionProvider: null,
   indexSearch: false,
   eagerLoading: false,
   formula: null },
 { orderNumber: 20,
   name: 'text_text',
   caption: 'Text [1]',
   type: 1,
   size: null,
   decimals: 0,
   allowedFileTypes: null,
   maxFileCount: 0,
   nullable: true,
   readonly: false,
   indexed: true,
   unique: false,
   autoassigned: false,
   hint: null,
   defaultValue: null,
   refClass: '',
   itemsClass: '',
   backRef: '',
   backColl: '',
   binding: '',
   semantic: null,
   selConditions: null,
   selSorting: [],
   selectionProvider: null,
   indexSearch: false,
   eagerLoading: false,
   formula: null },
 { orderNumber: 30,
   name: 'text_multilinetext',
   caption: 'Multiline text [7]',
   type: 1,
   size: null,
   decimals: 0,
   allowedFileTypes: null,
   maxFileCount: 0,
   nullable: true,
   readonly: false,
   indexed: true,
   unique: false,
   autoassigned: false,
   hint: null,
   defaultValue: null,
   refClass: '',
   itemsClass: '',
   backRef: '',
   backColl: '',
   binding: '',
   semantic: null,
   selConditions: null,
   selSorting: [],
   selectionProvider: null,
   indexSearch: false,
   eagerLoading: false,
   formula: null },
 { orderNumber: 40,
   name: 'text_formattext',
   caption: 'Formatted text [8]',
   type: 1,
   size: null,
   decimals: 0,
   allowedFileTypes: null,
   maxFileCount: 0,
   nullable: true,
   readonly: false,
   indexed: true,
   unique: false,
   autoassigned: false,
   hint: null,
   defaultValue: null,
   refClass: '',
   itemsClass: '',
   backRef: '',
   backColl: '',
   binding: '',
   semantic: null,
   selConditions: null,
   selSorting: [],
   selectionProvider: null,
   indexSearch: false,
   eagerLoading: false,
   formula: null } ] }

The example in dnt: test/modules/rest/metadatasrv.spec.js

/checking metadata service/# accessing info about metadata class: getMeta