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Get Component Document

GET https://api.bentley.com/library/components/{componentId}/documents/{documentId}[?projectId]

Retrieves documents for specified digital component from user's organization or project context.

Downloading Associated File

Associated file url can be found in fileUrl property returned in the response.

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.

User must be an Organization Administrator for the Organization or have Read permission assigned at the organization level or have Read permission assigned at the project level, in case request is scoped to a project.

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.

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

componentId

Yes

Id of the component.

documentId

Yes

Id of the document.

projectId

Id of the project.

Request headers

Authorization

Yes

OAuth access token with itwin-platform scope

Yes

Setting to application/vnd.bentley.itwin-platform.v1+json is recommended.

Response

Response 200 OK

json

{
    "document": {
        "id": "4ca8dcff-5ebb-b236-ea2f-0bfbdf3c623e",
        "displayName": "Electric Water Heater_DRE",
        "extension": "rfa",
        "purpose": "Design",
        "size": 890456,
        "available": true,
        "isActive": true,
        "version": "1",
        "previousVersionId": "bef75b3c-dc4b-a205-adac-7501a367284e",
        "createdDateTime": "2019-11-26T17:12:40.8516569Z",
        "lastModifiedDateTime": "2019-11-26T17:14:12.3846681Z",
        "_links": {
            "associatedDesignDocument": {
                "href": "https://api.bentley.com/library/components/r444f052-c026-40d6-b412-8c3c12004ebe/documents/2da8dcff-5ebb-b236-ea2f-0bfbdf3c667s"
            },
            "fileUrl": {
                "href": "https://componentscenprodeussa01.blob.core.windows.net/private-3920224a-6600-41c9-aadb-2510159e373c/f8546e53-fd19-06f2-8071-ace2d70b05b6/Electric Water Heater_DRE.rvt"
            }
        }
    }
}

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

This response indicates that the specified document not found.

json

{
    "error": {
        "code": "ComponentDocumentNotFound",
        "message": "Requested Component Document 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

Document (response)

Retrieved document response containing document.

document

Document

Full representation of the document.

Document purpose

Indicates the purpose of document.

Design

String

Thumbnail

String

Reference

String

GalleryImage

String

TypeCatalog

String

Document

String

Id of the document.

displayName

String

Display name of the document.

extension

String

Extension of the associated file to the document.

version

String

Version of the document.

previousVersionId

String

This property is only used for design documents for up-version. Once a design document is up-versioned, this contains id of the previous design document.

Document purpose

Document-purpose

Indicates the purpose of document.

size

Number

Size of the document.

available

Boolean

This indicates if associated file to this document is available.

isActive

Boolean

This is always true for all documents except design documents. In case there are multiple versions of a design document, only one can be active.

createdDateTime

String

Created datetime of the document.

lastModifiedDateTime

String

Last modified datetime of the document.

_links

document-links

Contains the hyperlinks to the related data of document.

Document Links

Hyperlinks to related data which complements this entity.

associatedDesignDocument

Link

Link to associated design document.

fileUrl

Link

Link to download the file associated to this document.

Link

href

String

Error

Contains error information.

code

String

One of a server-defined set of error codes.

message

String

A human-readable representation of the error.

target

String, null

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.

error

Error

Error information.