Get iModel Share - iModels

REST API Overview

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iModels

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This operation is a Technical Preview and is available for testing purposes only. Do not use in production.

GET https://api.bentley.com/imodels/{id}/shares/{shareId}

Retrieves the details of a Share.

iModels Share API provides a way to publicly share an iModel. Each Share instance has a shareKey property which allows anonymous access to the shared iModel using iModels API. To use the shareKey to access the iModel one has to provide shareKey via Authorization header: Authorization: Basic {shareKey}, when calling iModels API.

All Share operations interact only with the Share instances that the calling user has created. E.g. querying iModel Shares will not return all the Shares iModel has, but only the Shares which were created by the user who is calling the API.

Authentication

Requires Authorization header with valid Bearer token for scope itwin-platform.

For more documentation on authorization and how to get access token visit OAUTH2 Authorization page.

Authorization

User must have imodels_webview permission assigned at the iModel level and at least imodels_webview permission assigned at the iTwin level. If permissions at the iModel level are not configured, then user must have imodels_webview permission assigned at the iTwin level.

Alternatively the user should be an Organization Administrator for the Organization that owns a given iTwin the iModel belongs to.

An Organization Administrator must have at least one of the following roles assigned in User Management: Account Administrator, Co-Administrator, or CONNECT Services Administrator. For more information about User Management please visit our Bentley Communities Licensing, Cloud, and Web Services wiki page.

Important: Share operations are in closed preview mode currently. Hence only selected applications can utilize the Share API.

Rate limits

All iTwin Platform API operations have a rate limit. For more documentation on that visit Rate limits and quotas page.

Request

Request parameters

template

Yes

iModel id

shareId

template

Yes

Share id

Request headers

Authorization

Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

Yes

Setting to application/vnd.bentley.itwin-platform.v2+json is recommended.

Response

Response 200 OK

json

{
    "share": {
        "id": "846e5f15-ac4a-4971-8160-580d95624f81",
        "displayName": "iModel Share name",
        "name": "iModel Share name",
        "expiresAt": "2020-10-20T10:51:33.1700000Z",
        "permission": "imodels_webview"
    }
}

Response 401 Unauthorized

This response indicates that request lacks valid authentication credentials. Access token might not been provided, issued by the wrong issuer, does not have required scopes or request headers were malformed.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "HeaderNotFound",
        "message": "Header Authorization was not found in the request. Access denied."
    }
}

Response 404 Not Found

Specified iModel or Share was not found.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "iModelNotFound",
        "message": "Requested iModel is not available."
    }
}

Response 429 Too many requests

This response indicates that the user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "TooManyRequests",
        "message": "More requests were received than the subscription rate-limit allows."
    }
}

Response headers

retry-after

The number of requests exceeds the rate-limit for the client subscription.

Definitions

Share Response

Container for Share object.

TableSchema

Share properties.

TableSchema

String

Id of the Share

displayName

String

Display name of the Share. Corresponds to Name property.

name

String

Name of the Share.

expiresAt

Date-time

A universal datetime value specifying until when the Share will be valid.

permission

String

Specifies what permission will be available when accessing iModel via the share key. Possible values: imodels_webview, imodels_read.

Error

Contains error information.

TableSchema

code

String

One of a server-defined set of error codes.

message

String

A human-readable representation of the error.

target

String

The target of the error.

Error Response

Gives details for an error that occurred while handling the request. Note that clients MUST NOT assume that every failed request will produce an object of this schema, or that all of the properties in the response will be non-null, as the error may have prevented this response from being constructed.

TableSchema

error

Error

Error information.